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Hello again Cousins, Family and Friends

“How time flies when you are having fun”. It’s been months since our last communication and it certainly has been an “interesting” period. I sincerely hope that this newsletter finds you all well and hearty despite the constrictions of the health climate.

The database is sitting at 20270 individuals and 6863 families.

The database is sitting at 20061 individuals and 6803 families
Most popular family names:
Maartens  (3508), Martens  (1130), Martins  (816), Fourie  (519), NN  (403), Pretorius  (395), van_der_Merwe  (226), Botha  (216), Venter  (207), Kruger  (178), Erasmus  (169), Smith  (166), Coetzee  (159), Harris  (154), Janse_van_Rensburg  (153), Vorster  (151), Maartins  (141), Meyer  (140), Scheepers  (139), Nel  (131) 
Most popular places mentioned in the family tree:

The database is sitting at 18910 individuals and 6416 families
 
Be sure to spread the word amonst the family.
If you're logged in the website (which is free) then click on the familytree on the righthand-side and it will take you to the Martens/Maartens/Martins genealogical database.

The database is sitting at 17600 individuals and 5943 families
 
Be sure to spread the word amonst the family.
If you're logged in the website (which is free) then click on the familytree on the righthand-side and it will take you to the Martens/Maartens/Martins genealogical database.

The database is sitting at 16359 individuals and 5446 families.

 
Be sure to spread the word amonst the family. We've removed the irritating password that the familytree link requires, so if you're logged in the website (which is free) then you just have to click on the familytree on the righthand-side and it will take you to the Martens/Maartens/Martins genealogical database.

It's that time of year where we do our latest update to the geneological database and send out the Christmas Newsletter :)

To view the latest newsletter, go here.

The database is sitting at 11419 individuals and 4092 families. The  This is up from April which ws sitting at  11286 individuals and 4037 families.
 
Be sure to spread the word amonst the family. We've removed the irritating password that the familytree link requires, so if you're logged in the website (which is free) then you just have to click on the familytree on the righthand-side and it will take you to the Martens/Maartens/Martins genealogical database.

Our latest newsletter and Christmas Wishes.
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We've email our latest Newsletter for the month of August 2013. A lot of happenings in the Martens / Maartens / Martins genealogical database. To view this newsletter or to view past newsletter, follow the link below:

Newsletter Archives

We've posted a new page under "interesting Bits" menu on the right-hand side called "The Anglo Boer War". Please do check it out! It gives a good overview of the Anglo Boer War and the Martens/Maartens/Martins' involvement in the struggle!
The Anglo Boer War

Wow what can we say, this is a bumper update to the Martens | Maartens | Martins | Maartins genealogical database! We have broken the 10 000 people threshold making the database sit at 10029 individuals and 3533 families! Thank you to DJ Martens for his huge contribution and sacrifice putting his time and effort into building this database that has been over 15 years in the making!

The latest newsletter has been sent out. If you haven't received it, you can read it here: #7 - April 2013

You can also view all previous Newsletters on our Newsletter Archive page. 

We've just updated the Family Tree database to 10 FEBRUARY 2013! Our first update for 2013!

We're in the process of designing a new website for martensfamily.co.za and maartensfamily.co.za with a new layout and features. We'd appreciate your feedback on what you would like to see/feel on the website. What do you hate of the current website which we can fix?

The areas that we're thinking of improving:

Layout - Make user posts and photos more visible/accessable.

Better Sociable interface so members can communicate easier.

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Let us know, we need your feedback!

We've added a page under "Interesting Bits" called "Genealogical Information Needed" . We've listed quite an extensive list of information that we need to be completed on the database. Please have a look and see whether you can fill in the blanks for us. Here's the link to the page.

We've recently registered the domain www.maartensfamily.co.za to link to www.martensfamily.co.za to accommodate for the Maartens' clan as well as we are all one family!

We wish to welcome the Maartens' clan to our website. We hope that the cooperation will extend the website's capability and functionality extensively and so broaden the reach of the website and so grow the geneological database.

We've added a new page "Complete A - Z Surnames listed in Database" under the menu "Interesting Bits" which lists all the surnames currently on the database. This will be updated as the database gets updated.

This will help with searches on Google when people search for their genealogical information.

We are continually striving to better this website. If you have any ideas, critique or questions, please let us know!

We've seen some SPAM hit our website in recent times (even this morning) which has forced us to tighten security on martensfamily.co.za. We've employed a brilliant service called Mollom which is a prominent spam counter-measure!

It is being used by the likes of Twitter, The Economist, Thomson Reuters, Symantec, Sony, MIT and Stanford University amongst others.

As you can see, we've made some changes to the existing menu structure on the right-hand side to accommodate for more information.

We've also added parts of the dairy entries of Anna Katherina Martens(Shroenn) that we received from Andrew Harty. Thank you Andrew! We've also added a link to a .pdf of a newspaper clipping of the "The Martens of Doornhoek" article also from Andrew.

We love hearing from all of you and sharing in the history of your family so please let those stories and info continue to come in!

Martensfamily.co.za website is a Responsive HTML 5 website which means that it scales according to your screensize!

The Family Tree database has been updated! If you still see the family tree dated "31 March 2012", you need to clear your browser data under Tools in your Webbrowser of choice.

We welcome all feedback and expecially information that can go on to the Martens family tree database.