Ancestry of Afrikaners

[Cristiano viejo]

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

Dont you know the Spanish surname of the famous Boer general Koos de la Rey?
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...Koos-de-la-Rey

[Smitty]

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

Then, do you think, as Germaniac suggests, that all Afrikaners have a dab of Portuguese back there?

[Loki]

Dont you know the Spanish surname of the famous Boer general Koos de la Rey?
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...Koos-de-la-Rey

Yup, I know of it. That's Spanish

[Loki]

Then, do you think, as Germaniac suggests, that all Afrikaners have a dab of Portuguese back there?

Well, Ferreira was an early surname addition, and the population went through a bottleneck, so the Ferreira genes probably carried far and wide. Yet a small part of the gene pool, which is mainly Dutch, German, French Huguenot and British.

[Peterski]

More about Polish ancestors:

http://www.academia.edu/22401950/Pol..._Boer_families

[Rethel]

More about Polish ancestors:

http://www.academia.edu/22401950/Pol..._Boer_families

A tak w dwóch zdaniach bez registarcji?

[Loki]

More about Polish ancestors:

http://www.academia.edu/22401950/Pol..._Boer_families

This is true, but... we should not overestimate the ethnic Polish component of these people. Many of them were Germans, because Danzig (Gdansk) was still a German city, and a lot of the surrounds as well. But certainly, I see some Polish surnames there. Very interesting.

[Loki]

I also accept that many "Germans" from the area were undoubtedly Germanised Slavs, too.

[PostOak1]

I remember that at the Facebook R1a m458 page , there was a guy with L1029 from South Africa. Most of the German settlers in South Africa came from the Rhineland, and many of those in the Rhineland were only a generation or two removed from Bohemia due to emigration after the Thirty Years War


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[Loki]

I remember that at the Facebook R1a m458 page , there was a guy with L1029 from South Africa. Most of the German settlers in South Africa came from the Rhineland, and many of those in the Rhineland were only a generation or two removed from Bohemia due to emigration after the Thirty Years War


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Yes, that is true. The Thirty Years War caused a lot of migration in central Europe, and many went to South Africa afterwards, after going to the Dutch Republic initially.