Fred van Zyl on the b7c3d2/b7c3d3 distinction, Jan Adriaan van Zyl's Middelwater birth, and the Casper van Zyl of De Cango
correspondence (family testimony) · geraadpleeg 2026-08-06
- Type
- correspondence (family testimony)
- Repository
- Private family correspondence
- Reference
- Letter of 6 Aug 2026, in Afrikaans, with one same-day correction
- Consulted
- 2026-08-06
Die sitasie soos dit gegee is
SECOND LETTER from the same correspondent; the first is SRC-119 (29 Jul 2026). FAMILY TESTIMONY, not a document, and Frans's own instruction on receiving it was "lets not assume his info is correct, but hopefully it expands our knowledge". Recorded on that footing: what it CONFIRMS is noted as independent corroboration, what it ADDS is [FAMILY][TO VERIFY], and what rests on an argument from absence is said to. | WHAT IT CONFIRMS, and this is the substantial part: the namesake distinction this project made on its own. Fred writes that several websites wrongly make Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen a son of Ockert Almero and a brother of Johanna Jacomina, and that he was in fact the son of Jacobus Johannes - adding that Almero's son Ockert Jacobus had only THREE children where the cousin had fourteen. This model already separates the two men (PER-000124 and PER-000211, the Marico Klaarstroom on the latter) and already records exactly three children for PER-000124. Two independent routes to the same distinction. | THE DE VILLIERS CODES ARE NEW AND USEFUL: b7c3d2 = Jacobus Johannes (1785-1867), b7c3d3 = Ockert Almero (given as 11-05-1787), both sons of Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1754/55-1809). | AND THE DATE IDENTIFIES THE MAN BEYOND DOUBT. Fred's '11-05-1787' for b7c3d3 is the BAPTISM day and month of this project's root ancestor exactly - SRC-076 has him born 25 April 1786 and baptised 11 May 1786 - with the year one out. A baptism date quoted as a birth date, which is the commonest slip in compiled genealogy and here is the thing that proves Fred and this project are talking about the same man. | [6 Aug 2026] The citation was reworded the hour it was written, because the leak suite's conversation check failed the build on it: the repository field ended with a personal name and the reference opened with a full dateline, so the exported JSON carried the name and the date adjacent. That is the attribution shape the check bans - it does not ban the name, it bans the dateline against it - and it was right. A source row is a citation, not a record of who sent what to whom on which day; the recipient is not part of the reference.
Woordeliks gehou. Hierdie projek weerspreek gepubliseerde genealogieë en stel 'n familie se eie mondelinge oorlewering reg, so elke bewering moet nagegaan kan word deur iemand wat nie in die vertrek was nie.
Wat op hierdie bron rus
Plase
Mense
- Ockert Almero Oosthuizen 24 April 1786 – 26 Februarie 1859
- Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen (Almero's son)
- Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen 14 Desember 1808 – 1884
- Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784) 1784 – 29 Oktober 1867
- Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1809) 1809 – 23 Maart 1876
- Casper van Zyl (1781-1863) 1781 – 1863