A Note on Family Tree Design
The large numbers of offspring in successive generations of settler families poses challenges for creating family trees that show descent from multiple siblings in a single image. Consequently, the family trees in Belongings depart from both standard genealogical-descent charts and from anthropological kinship diagrams.
In many of the charts, a set of siblings occupies one row while their spouses are beneath them. This adaptation allows the reader to group spouses easily and more readily to see marriage trends within a specific family. This arrangement also permits an enitre generation to fit on a single screen or page view.
To show the van der Merwe family in detail, one chart shows the first generation of Cape-born children and their spouses. Each of the seven children who married and had children is then represented in a separate chart.
Other charts show repeated intermarriage among specific families.
Some charts include only selected members of a family in order to highlight significant relationships among siblings and cousins.
^topKey for Family Trees
Genealogy Charts
- The Vosloo Family
- The Van der Merwe Family
- Sophia van der Merwe & Roelof Pasman
- Schalk van der Merwe & Anna Prevot
- Marietje van der Merwe & Barend Burger
- Aletta van der Merwe with Marthinius van Staden and Nicolaas Janse van Rensburg
- Magteld van der Merwe & Pieter van Heerden
- Elsie van der Merwe and Albert Myburgh
- Hendrik van der Merwe d'oud
- Burger-Van der Merwe Marriages
- Botha-Van der Merwe Marriages
- Van Heerden-Van der Merwe Marriages
- The Burger Family
- Selected Burger Family Relationships
- Willem Burger & Elsje van der Merwe's Descendants
- The Lubbe Family
- Barend's Siblings
- Barend & Martha's Children with Their Spouses
- The Campher Family
- The Van Wyk Family