This is a collection of our genealogy (family tree) information, trip reports and everything else we would like to share with our friends and family - Anyone else? You are welcome to browse the information and give feedback if you think you can improve on the data on this site.

Trip reports

Visit the Trips & Events area for image libraries and reports on the places that we visited or notable events that we have attended. This area is our photo journeys when we explore as far and wide as what the budget will allow. The photo's are not supposed to be club entry standards, but the typical - I was there thing.

Information supplied on this site

The information on this site covers mainly five families. My family tree started with Jan Smit who came to South Africa in 1688 from Delft in the Netherlands. My mother's family comes from Wilhelm Odendal who came to South Africa from Keulen in Germany in 1709. They are the two men who started the largest families of Smit and Odendaal in South Africa.

My wife's family is as follows: Her father's side is Liesker from Rotterdam in the Netherlands, her mother Brinkman from Delft in the Netherlands. Then there are also a number of entries on the Jutte family.

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