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- Item'n Genealogiese analise van 'n enkele familie as verteenwoordiging van ’n kultuurgroep : 'n ondersoek na nuwe perspektiewe(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04) Wood, Elmien; Burden, M.; Heese, H. F.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of History.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study deals with the two Spies progenitors, Johannes Ulrich Spies and Philip Peeter Spies, and their descendants. It starts at their home in Germany, discusses the motives why they came to the Cape and their settlement at the Cape. Their years of being strangers in a foreign colony are followed by the years of citizenship, when they married and raised children. It concludes with the reasons why some branches of the family moved to the interior and other branches stayed behind at the Cape. Shortly before many members of the family moved away from the Cape, a third progenitor, the slave Mentoor and his family arrived from Mozambique. Throughout this research the history of the Spies family is outlined against the background of national and international events. Triangulation is used as research methodology: archival documents are investigated together with published sources, the findings and opinions of Afrikaans historians are compared to those of English historians, and source material in Afrikaans, Dutch, German and English is used.