Gerrit Snyman
1730 – before 1802
Names
- Surname
- Snyman
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Immediate family
- Father
- Philippe Snijman
- Children
- Gerrit Snyman
A life in the record
- before 1802 died Died
- 1730 born Born
Others of the same name
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What we don't know
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Research notes
[TREE] Added 6 Aug 2026 under LEAD-0116, to make a descent this site ALREADY ASSERTS walkable in its own data. Generation 8 of the anchor family's direct ancestry, on one of the ten lines set out in [S021]. NO PLACE IMPORTED, per 5. Dates as the tree gives them. This row exists to carry a link, and a tree is not a register: nothing here is established until the Cape records are read, which is what S021's provisional banner says.
[15 Aug 2026, FS] FamilySearch id filled from the FamilySearch id field of the family tree exports, matched on this row's own tree id and accepted only because the tree's NAME AND YEARS agree with this row. It is a door to the sources, not a source: nothing here is taken from the profile.
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Elders
FamilySearch profile L7DZ-DV9