My name is Johan Morgenthal
and I started this site using MyHeritage.com to create a personal site for my various family branches, build their family tree and share family photos and supporting documents. If you have any comments or feedback about this site, please click here to contact me. You are particularly welcome to do so if you are in any way related to the various families contained herein, or even if you are in any way interested in the surnames that appear in this site. I would appreciate corrections and any contribution in the line of facts, photographs or documents that will contribute to improve on my knowledge of the families that played such a telling role in my and/or my wife Delene's family hiistory. Our family tree is posted online on this site! There are 12197 names in our family site. The earliest event is the birth of Friedrich von Loh
(1150). The most recent event is the death of Bennie Morgendaal
(Oct 31 2011). The site was last updated on May 28 2012, and it currently has 50 registered member(s). If you wish to become a member too, please click here. Enjoy the contents .
The photograph of the painting (left) depicts the VOC ship "Leymuiden" after she ran aground on the rocks on the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde Islands. The original Morgenthal (Johan Casper) was a member of her crew a few voyages before she was lost.
The photograph on the top right shows an airial view of the town of Stellenbosch, founded in 1679 and a historic center; home of the University of Stellenbosch in the Cape winelands. (Photo: Neil Austin)
Like all sites of this kind it will, I suppose, never be completed, but it certainly is not for lack of trying. I have recently added to the Morgenthal lineage, but the real progress was on the Kotze and in particular, the Schoeman families. Even then, I realize that I am merely scratching the surface! Like anyone working on family history knows, one is inclined to become bogged down in side issues like circumstances around certain events in the families' existence, with questions like Why did they do this or that at the particular time? To answer such questions and to get an insight into the history of the time takes time and almost always leads to new questions! You will know what I mean.
