Family history and genealogy
September 8, 2025
Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra PESSOA was born on June 13, 1888, in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, and translator. He is regarded as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century. Read more…
September 6, 2025
Miriam NDWANDLE was a Zulu woman from Orlando, Johannesburg. She gave birth to quadruplets on 24 July 1948. This occurred at Bridgman Memorial Hospital in Brixton, Johannesburg. She died in December 1948. The three girls and a boy had four Read more…
September 3, 2025
Hester Susanna Catharina MULLER was born on 29 May 1869 in the Potchefstroom district, the daughter of Hendrik Joseph MULLER and Johanna Margaretha Dorothea VAN TONDER.She was baptised on 10 January 1870 in the NGK Rustenburg.She died on 21 November Read more…
ZIPRA terrorists shot down Air Rhodesia flight RH825, a scheduled passenger flight, on 03 September 1978. The Vickers Viscount YP-WAS, named the Hunyani, was flying the last leg of Air Rhodesia’s scheduled service from Victoria Falls to Salisbury, via Kariba. Read more…
August 24, 2025
A newspaper article with South African origins circulated widely around the world in the early 1900s. The first one I found was in January 1911. It was a popular story because the subject was a much-married woman who was “mother Read more…
August 20, 2025
Levi David JONES was born in Eglwys Fair, Carmarthenshire, Wales, on December 16, 1884. His birth was registered in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, in the second quarter of 1886, according to civil registry volume 11a, page 555. He lived in Trecynon Read more…
August 6, 2025
The Johannesburg City Library celebrates its 90th anniversary today, 06 August 2025. The Italianate-style building with a colonnaded façade and marble staircase started off as a corrugated iron structure in 1893. The recent refurbishments have preserved its architectural beauty while Read more…
August 3, 2025
Mining magnate Barney BARNATO conceived plans for a Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg in 1895. Six stands between Eloff and Commissioner Streets were purchased for £40,000. Barney died on 14 June 1897, while on a ship to England. His nephew, Solomon Read more…
July 31, 2025
The biggest schoolboy rugby match in the world takes place on the first weekend of August in Paarl, when Paarl Gimnasium and Paarl Boys High face each other. During the week prior, there are functions, reunions, and more rugby. Paarl Read more…
July 10, 2025
Few people who use a coat-of-arms and/or so-called family crest today have any right to do so. Armorial bearings do not belong to all persons of a given surname but belong to and identify members of one particular family who Read more…