The Family trees of Vanzas and Darjis from Diu
A bit of the Site's history
It all started with the information
of the Waghela family tree
collected by
Shri Manilal Lauchand Waghela in a
manuscript dated 15th
February 1956 which was in 1997 transcribed by
Shri Paresh Lauchand
Waghela into an Excel Spreadsheet. It contained the male lineage
starting from
Amraji, the first Waghela to come to Diu. Shri Paresh
Lauchand tried then with limited success to update the information.
He tried also to expand it so as to include other families with which the Waghela's had connections (married their wives from, married their
daughters to) soon realising that this was a huge task, not possible
with the tools he had. That is when
Guirish Paresh Waghela searched
the internet and found GenoPro (then in version 1!) and used it to
organize the information from the Excel spreadsheet with the intention to make it easily readable and readily available to all. Later on, in
2004-2005, additional information was collected (see Credits) making
it possible to publish it here in 24th December 2006 sadly after Shri Paresh Lauchand had passed away in 2005.
This Site aims to somehow document the Names and mainly the Relationships of people that originate from Diu. More than a collection of names, this is a collection of relationships which our families have been establishing since some generations - probably centuries! Relationships that our younger generations do not know of or tend to forget. It is part of our common History which we should be proud of and leave behind to the coming generations. The Site also aims to help contain the loss of information that happens with the disappearance of our older generations - most of which is not documented in any registry or archive and transmitted orally from generation to generation. It should be noted that this information gathering was done with no scientific methodology in mind.
The Names and Relationships
The Names in the Site follow some general rules or guidelines (to simplify and organize the information):
1.
Each Name is composed of
<Name (First or Given Name)> <Name of Father> <Surname/Family Name>.
This applies to both males and females. When the daughters marry their names do not change - they maintain their original maiden name.
2.
The Names try to closely follow their Gujrati origins - they are transliterated phonetically as closely as possible. It is sad to see what was done and is still being done to our Gujrati names during the registration with the Portuguese / English / Mozambican / Indian authorities.
Whenever possible, we have tried to also include the Names in Gujrati of each Individual. These names can be searched in both the Name Indexes: by First Name and by Surname.
3.
The people who visit and search on the site do not know how the Individuals have been officially registered and would probably try to search by their "Gujrati" names.
4.
Whenever the 'registration name' is known or made known to us, and if it is different than what it should apparently be, we include it in between square brackets [ ].
5.
Due to the European GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) law and to avoid any legal issues, we avoid using the full legally registered name of a person (or any such sensitive data) unless specifically and explicitly authorized.
Your Contribution
gv-genealogia@sapo.pt
It does not necessarily have to be only of your close family. It can be of your friends or acquaintances that you feel can be connected somehow to the Vanza Darji Site
If any of you have any photographs or manuscripts of your Family trees - they were painstakingly and beautifully drawn on the walls in our houses in Diu - you are welcome to share them with us. They are a valuable source of information.
We are also collecting Old Photographs of our communities in Diu, Mozambique, Portugal, United Kingdom (or anywhere!) you can also add them to our collection if you would like to share.