These Are The Days
In Loving Memory of Willem de Jong For months, we have been working on our family tree. We carefully filled…
Family Tree
The Dorsland Trek – New Discoveries
For our family, there was no living memory left to guide us. There were no grandparents or great-aunts who could…
The Missing Branch
I was born as Susan Vorster, but many might not know that my birth name should have actually been Du…
Shadows in the Family
As I looked through the few records documented for Jan Vorster, I suddenly noticed that he disappeared from records again…
The Mystery of Jan Vorster
Before he became known as Jan Vorster, the founding father of the South African Vorster family, he was someone else….
Called by a Daughter of Time
For months now, my mother and I have been researching our family history. We spend hours looking through old papers,…
When The World Turned Dark
The Second World War did not begin with sudden chaos, but with a slow tightening of fear across Europe. In…