GENEAOLOGY: RESEARCHIING SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILY HISTORY – AN INTEMEDIATE COURSE
GENEAOLOGY: RESEARCHIING SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILY HISTORY – AN INTEMEDIATE
COURSE
by Dr Eleanor Damons
Time: 10:00–13:00
Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Kramer Law Building, University of Cape Town
Course fee: R450; Staff and students R300
Maximum: 25 participants
Booking through Webtickets:
Geneaology: researching South African family history -an intermediate course - Dr Eleanor Damon (webtickets.co.za)
This intermediate course is aimed at those with some experience of doing genealogy research. The course will cover the following:
- Transcribing and working with tangible and non-tangible heritage
- Presentations, exhibitions, photographs, family Bibles, certificates and newspaper clippings
- Archives, graveyards, online research and oral history.
Dr Eleanor Damon is a writer, story coach and genealogy workshop facilitator. As a story coach she compiled three anthologies in education: Teaching a noble calling, Lifelong learning and 50 years later. She has a special interest in constructing family trees. She has brought the concept of genealogy closer to children through the books The Two Hannahs, House of Martha and My 8 families. She has written articles for magazines and published family registers.
She completed her PhD at the Stellenbosch University focusing on the contribution of the Cyster family to the development of the mission station in Pniël. One of her challenges is to publish the family register of the Cloete family by focussing on the role of South African Cloete women. Eleanor has retired from active teaching but assists families with the construction of their family trees. She is an avid traveller and published her travel stories in her travel journal, STOFPAD, in 2023.
For further information please contact Bronwyn Geldenhuys at ems@uct.ac.za or Medeé Rall at