Category Archives: BECK

“Our” Black Sheep: Samuel Martini DE MEURS (ca. 1680 – 1711)

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Mary Beth

Sara Magdalena, my husband’s 6th great-grandmother, was not the daughter of Andreas OELOFSE, the husband of her mother Sara JANSZ, but a man whose name was given as “unknown” on the child’s May 1709 baptism record. However, as detailed in … Continue reading →

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Searching for a Father: Sara Magdalena (1709 – aft. 1750)

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Mary Beth

There’s nothing like a tempting new genealogy mystery to keep enthusiasm running high! A two-part article published last year in Genesis by the Genealogical Society of South Africa had shown that my husband’s 6x great-grandmother, Sara Magdalena, was “probably not” the … Continue reading →

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