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.

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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.

There are a lot of other family data and interesting stories and anecdotes that we would like to share. By doing this we will be able to buid up a more comprehensive set of data.

Most of the data was collected from information sources from the collections kept at GISA in Stellenbosch, South Africa. If you feel that there may be ommissions, or that data is incorrect please send it through.

ODENDAAL CORRECTION/ADDITIONAL INFO

My father's (Marthinus Gerhardus Lourens ODENDAAL) date of birth is incorrect and should read 05 July 1895 (died 28/11/1969). My mother's date of birth is correct viz. 21 October 1907 (died 31/12/1969). My late wife Anita (Anna Maria THUYNSMA) was born 06 May 1941, died 21/11/2002. Two daughters were born from our marriage - Lo-Mari (24 April 1975) and Marzanne (08 January 1979).

Lo-Mari married Antonio Manuel de Sousa Oliveira CONDE on 10/03/2007 and Marzanne married Daniel Hermanus MATTHEE on 04/04/2008. Matthew Conde was born on 25/03/2008 and Sean Daniel Matthee on 21/08/2009.

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