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From: "Steve Hayes" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Dealing with the past
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 21:06:36 +0200
In-Reply-To: <000201c2fe60$aad07960$384c27c4@chrish>


On 9 Apr 2003 at 0:51, sharon marshall wrote:

> Hi Anne,
> Thanks for this - I have for a while been turning this sort of idea over in my
> mind. I think a wonderful way for our generation of new South African
> children to personalise and contextualise our chequered history would be for
> each of them to research a family tree. Do you have more info on this project?
> Funnily enough, I, too, am a journalist - I would love to initiate this sort
> of project, and perhaps need another journalist to join me...Any takers? BTW,
> did you read Phylicia Oppelt's Sunday Times review of Group Portraits? Perhaps
> a project like this would be of far deeper benefit than yet another book? I
> wonder if it wouldn't be an idea to set up a mailing list for genealogists of
> African and non-European descent? Would love input on this, Sharon -----

If you do decide to do anything about this, have a look at

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7783/

It would be good to set up web pages for such a project there.

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Steve Hayes
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Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727

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