Newsletter: June 2012

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News from the meeting of 16 June 2012

Report and photographs by Penny Evans 

Chairman Bob Saunders

Father's day chocolates.

June 16th was a chilly day. Bob Saunders, our chairman warmly welcomed
everyone. Members listened to Lucas Rinken speak about interesting information from eSAGI.

Some years ago Lucas started writing articles for our blog, based on this information. He wrote about Olive Schreiner, Dr Gerard Leendert Moerdijk , Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, FW de Klerk, The curse on the de Wets, the Louws and the clergymen, the spelling of names, Faure, a family of ministers, unusual and amusing surnames, cannons and strong men, The Brink family, and the Lady of Mystery, Beatrice Gurney.

Does a Website Really Contain Malicious Software?

There is "an easy and highly accurate" test to determine if a website contains malware. Click HERE to read the full report on Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter.

NOTE: "malware" is an abbreviation for "malevolent software." It refers to viruses, worms, trojan horses, and all other software that is designed to do nasty things to your computer.

Keep in mind that no anti-virus/anti-malware program is perfect. At best, all of them only detect 90% to 95% of the problems.

Another library day

Penny Evans

Louise Dick and John Stephens.

The Library team met again on the 26th May 2012to carry on with the work in the library. The team consisted of Lucas Rinken, John Stephens, Graham Southey, Louise Dick, Giel Nel, Gerard Marloth and Penny Evans. Lucas transferred all the information about the library books from his laptop to the branch’s computer. He continued to add more books and booklets to the database.

Suksesvolle werkswinkel

JOHN STEPHENS

Op Saterdag, 19 Mei 2012, is die eerste werkswinkel vanjaar om eie navorsingsprobleme in groepsverband te bespreek, gehou. Agt-en-twintig lede het die byeenkoms bygewoon.

 
Onder leiding van ervare groepsleiers Lucas Rinken, Dennis Pretorius en Richard Ford is daar aan lede se probleemvrae aandag gegee. Veral lede wat nog nie veel ervaring in genealogiese navorsing het nie, kon hierby baat vind. Meer ervare lede kon ook nuttige wenke in die gesprekke inbring.

Verandering - Change

NEEM ASSEBLIEF KENNIS: Daar het ‘n dringende verandering gekom en SATERDAG, 19 Mei 2012, se byeenkoms is vervang met die WERKSWINKEL OOR PROBLEME WAT JY ONDERVIND MET JOU EIE NAVORSING. Ons sal ‘n PANEEL van GESOUTE MENSE hê om te help met die beantwoording van jou probleme. STEL ASSEBLIEF VIR JOU ‘N LYS OP VAN PROBLEME sodat ons dit Saterdag onder oë kan neem.

PLEASE NOTE: We have an urgent change in Saturday's, 19 May 2012, program. The WORKSHOP ON PROBLEMS YOU’RE EXPERIENCING IN YOUR OWN RESEARCH will be the topic. We’ll have a PANEL of EXPERIENCED MEMBERS who’ll be there to assist in answering your problem questions. PLEASE DRAW UP A LIST OF PROBLEMS YOU’RE EXPERIENCING in order for us to try and solve these problems.

Newsletter: April 2012

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Spanwerk in die biblioteek

 Hierdie foto's is Penny Evans se oes van die biblioteekdag waarydens twaalf van ons lede weer met die reorganisasie van die biblioteek besig was.

Foto 1

Foto 2

 Foto 1: Graham Southey en Marie van Aswegen se hande besig met die benaming en nommer van boeke.

Foto 2: Louise Dick, Graham en Hennie van Aswegen  besig met die nommer en uitsoek van boeke en pamflette.

   

Security tip

The main difference between http:// and https:// is all about keeping you security.

HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

The "s" stands for "secure".

If you visit a website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http://. This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecure' language. In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the website. If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.

This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an http:// website! But if the web address begins with https://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.

If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://.

If it doesn't, you should NEVER enter sensitive information ... such as a credit card number.

Source: WikiAnswers.

Rules of preservation

By Penny Evans

Alan Jeffrey

On 21st of April 2012 our branch was addressed by Alan Jeffrey, a book restorer working at the Brenthurst Library, which is one of the finest privately owned Africana libraries, and contains books, manuscripts, artworks and maps.

He explained that all the materials he uses to preserve books and manuscripts are archival. The materials are expensive as they are imported from USA. Two of the products used are Mylar and Melinex which are made by Du Pont.

He advised members not to use plastics that contain a plasticiser (gives off a smell). The gas that is emitted can penetrate the document and cause damage.

Lamination is not advisable.

Biblioteek gereorganiseer

John Stephens

Graham Southey en John Stepehns

Daar is ‘n begin gemaak om die tak se biblioteek te reorganiseer sodat alles meer toeganklik vir ons lede sal wees.

Nou lê daar werk voor om die boeke genommer te kry. Daarna moet ook die ander items soos DVD’s, CD’s, items wat nog by ander lede is, ook hier geliasseer word.

‘n Behoorlike inventaris moet opgestel word sodat die hele biblioteek-inhoud verseker kan word.

Comparing genetic ancestry and genealogy. South African Y chromosomes and surnames

Christoff Erasmus of the Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria

Christoff Erasmus

Forty one members of the West Gauteng branch attended this interesting presentation on 24th March 2012.

There are only two sections of DNA which are carried over from one parent to the children. This is the Y chromosome which is carried over from father to son. By studying this Y chromosome, information about the male ancestors, going back thousands of years, can be seen. Similarly, the mitochondrial DNA is carried over from the mother to her children, but only the daughters can carry this over to their own children.