Miners, Mercenaries and Millionaires

The working world has been forced to change the way we operate as a direct result of COVID-19. Significantly the various enforced lockdowns have led to a realisation that certain jobs can be performed remotely, given access to appropriate tools and information. The same could be said for genealogical research. Over the years researchers in the genealogy space have benefited massively from various digitisation projects which have made documentation, previously only accessible in a physical archive building, available at the click of a mouse. Not only has this process provided greater access to a global audience but it has also ensured the preservation of archived material. Here one immediately thinks of the fire at the Public Record Office in Dublin in 1922 which destroyed numerous valuable records. The digitisation projects are mammoth and costly, with full digitisation a long way off. But the temporary closure of libraries and archives as a direct result of COVID-19 has shown tha...

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Just prior to the COVID-19 lockdown I completed the hardcover edition of my book Melkkamer: A Pictorial History for the De Hoop Collection . Copies of these will be placed in some of the accommodation at De Hoop Nature Reserve. While we wait for De Hoop to fully reopen for guests I thought it would be nice to make available digital copies of the pages from my book. My plan is to post four pages every Monday for the next 11 weeks. Feel free to download the pages, comment and subscribe. Read on for a bit about Melkkamer. Melkkamer was once a 7472 hectare farm situated on the western shore of Grootvlei, just opposite the De Hoop Nature Reserve, Cape, South Africa. In its heyday it was referred to as a ‘fine sporting estate’ with buildings that were ‘substantial and a credit to any part of South Africa’. Those buildings were built by an ancestor of mine, John Henry ‘Biddy’ Anderson. Over the years as farming activities declined the farm became a wonderful place for us to enjoy the mo...