Ancestry of Afrikaners

[Loki]

Boers are a mix of several Eurasian groups, not just Dutch:

http://www.geographiapolonica.pl/article/item/7562.html

http://rcin.org.pl/Content/29182/WA5...a-Kowalski.pdf

Excerpt:

"In seeking to build the foundations of its rule in
South Africa, the Dutch East India Company took
on people from various different countries. One
indication of this is provided by the established
origins of today’s Afrikaaners. Calculations by
Heese (1971) suggest that 36.8% of these people’s
ancestors derived from The Netherlands, 35.7%
from Germany, 14.4% from France, 2.7% from the
British Isles, 2.9% from other European countries
(Poland included) and 7.5% from countries outside
Europe. In turn, work on the origin of the ancestors
of contemporary Afrikaaner Jaco M. Greeff
would seem to suggest that Heese exaggerated
the role played by immigrants of German origin,
at the expense of the French. The largest group
of Greeff ancestors – accounting for a 37.5%
share very close to that given by Heese – came
from The Netherlands, while Germans and French
accounted for similar (respectively 27.4 and 26.4%)
shares. 1.9% of the ancestors were from the British
Isles, while other European countries (mainly Denmark,
Norway and Portugal) accounted for 0.8%.
The non-European ancestors (mainly from India)
accounted for as much as 6.1% of the total."

A good resource work, however as genetic reports have come to light recently, it appears he has over-stated the non-European influence.

[Peterski]

Interesting thread, I started a similar one recently:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...aaners-(Boers)

[Peterski]

Kazimiera created a similar thread a few years ago:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...-one-Afrikaner

[Rethel]

Bind them together.

[Loki]

Bind them together.

I will merge them.

[Loki]

Fascinating article Kaz, I haven't seen this yet... thanks for pointing it out Litvin!

Panel a illustrates that one individual is an ancestor of the author 30 times over!

Woah! Yes, I know that Afrikaners went through a genetic "bottleneck" between around 1652 - 1700. This illustrates it very well.

[Germaniac]

What about some Boers with Portuguese last names, specially Ferreira? I'm sure a small number of Portuguese people mixed with the Dutch, German, and French way back then.

[de Burgh II]

It would seem they are mostly of Central European extraction with some distant African/Indian/Asian blood.

[Loki]

What about some Boers with Portuguese last names, specially Ferreira? I'm sure a small number of Portuguese people mixed with the Dutch, German, and French way back then.

Ferreira is a common Boer surname. It is the only one of Portuguese origin that I know of.

[Loki]

It would seem they are mostly of Central European extraction with some distant African/Indian/Asian blood.

More Northern than Central European. Northwestern.