SRC-2026-063

Jooste Family Bible (Dutch BIJBEL; presented Transvaal 15 Sept 1881) — printed Familie-Register leaves (1828 parents / 1848-1869 children / 1877 marriages / deaths-to-1906) + a hand-written continuation leaf + tucked-in loose documents (1908 St Andrew's College postcard; 1937 Mooirivier Lidmaatskaart; 1928-29 Jooste x Cronje Doopseel; 1945 Die Brandwag 'Die Families Swart En Jooste' clipping with the JOOSTE + SWART arms; 1946 church bevestiging) — 17 founder photographs at family-private primary-heirloom register

Tier
T1-family-heirloom-primary (constituents: T1-family-manuscript register leaves + T3-church-certificate Doopseel/Lidmaatskaart + T2/T3-published-newspaper Die Brandwag 1945)
Received
2026-06-07
Carrier
R2 — Founder photographed the family heirloom Bible + its printed register leaves + its tucked-in loose documents on 2026-06-07 (17 iPhone HEIC, 11:35-11:49); R2 hand-off to canonical store 2026-06-08. The physical Bible remains in family custody (founder).
Families
joosten, humphries, cronje, esterhuizen
Gap it serves
GAP-A (displayed-arms provenance chain-of-derivation) + direct-line lineage G5-G8 + Tulbagh-anchor + Worcester-anchor + carrier-links (Humphries / Cronje / Esterhuizen)
In the store
18 page image(s) · 17 original(s)

Chain of custody

  1. origin: Family heirloom — a Dutch leather BIJBEL presented in the Transvaal 15 Sept 1881 (Fraktur inscription 'Willem J. Jooste'); held in the family across generations. The loose documents (1908-1946) were tucked inside it — a family-bible archive.
  2. intermediary_1: Founder photographed the artefact 2026-06-07 11:35-11:49 (17 HEIC).
  3. delivery: Founder R2 hand-off via /Users/thedarkness/Projects/_scratch/family bible/ (17 HEIC); processed to canonical store 2026-06-08 — HEIC masters at originals/, viewable JPG derivatives (max 3000px, descriptive names) at page-images/, 3 high-res crops at page-images/crops/.

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