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If you would like to send information on a stamouer, here are some guidelines. What is a Stamouer? This is the afrikaans word for the Founding Father, Progenitor, First of the Line, the first of the Dynasty. Various terms are used but essentially the concept for this web site means the first person or couple who established any particular family in South Africa. We want information on both male and female stamouers. Unlike many traditional South African genealogy publications, we consider the women to be as important as the men. Please submit both the male and female stamouers. You can do that as separate postings or combine them both in one article. In what Format do you want the material? You can send it in the format that pleases you. There is a great variety in the current stamouers pages - have a look at the styles and formats that others have used. Please send your article as a pen-ultimate. You can send the material either as an e-mail message or as an attachment. Do you want source references? Please supply the source reference for both the published works and/or documents from which you have gleaned your information. Who gets the credit? The persons who submits material gleaned from printed sources will be credited as the one who made the submission. People who have clearly done some primary research and provide their documentary sources will be credited as the researcher. The sources that have been used will also receive credit. In all three categories there may be more than one person or source given credit. Will the project grow and how will it grow? You can help it grow. Even each stamouer will expand, since so many of us are descendants of the same stamouers. I can see the project and the supplied material expand to such a degree, that it will become a combined effort and it would be hard to reflect the credit in such a growing dynamic. I have my own family web page. If you have a family web page that deals with the family please include its address as one of your source references. I notice that there are some errors or material that has been left out. Please bring this to our attention and supply the appropriate material, along with source references and/or arguments. We look forward to hearing from you. We reserve the right to either edit or reject any contribution. Please contact us at editor@stamouers.com Richard Ball |
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