Step 1: Book via the link in the email that was sent to you (if you did not receive an email invitation then you may still participate but it will cost you R1,000)

The following two steps are optional but do add to your experience of your geographic ancestry understanding.

Step 2: Register on this website (NOTE: registration on this website is NOT registration for the Ancestry project, only for the website)

Step 3: Login and write a short (2 - 3 sentence) submission on what you believe your geographic ancestry to be in the Ancestry 300 Forum

The first 300 people who respond to their email invitation (at AGEI's discretion) will be invited to get a free ancestry evaluation as part of this project.

In this way we wish to develop an ancestry map which draws from the indigenous people of Southern Africa, namely the former hunters or San groups, the pastoral Khoikhoi who are thought to have migrated to the Cape in the last 2,000 years introducing sheep and cattle to the region, and people originating from the Niger-Congo area speaking Nguni-languages who migrated south in the last 1,200 years. In addition, sea-borne immigrants from Western Europe (largely from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany and France), indentured labourers from India and slaves from the Malaysian Archipelago, Madagascar and other parts of Africa, have also contributed to the gene pool.

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