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I did find Annie's death age 86 , and burial 1 / 7 1962 at Pinelands 1 Cemetery , Cape Town
Section 4b grave 4662.
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Annie Hoffman
Haya bat Yitzchak Yosef / Grave 4662

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I got this information from Jewish Cemetery, Cape Town Administration site
You can contact them at  exec@uoscape.co.za

I think this means we are still looking for the Palestrant connection ?

How cool!  No, these are likely to be my family.  Isaac Joseph's birth certificate will be a better source to confirm that we do indeed have the right Hoffman family.

Yitzchak Yosef  translates to Isaac Joseph, Joseph is still in the name, and if this is the right Hoffman family, it gives me Moses Palestrant's father's full Hebrew name.  It also tells us exactly who Annie and Abraham's son Isaac Joseph was named after.

Thanks for finding the cemetery site.  I am going to explore, it may help with a lot of my other research.

Isaac Joseph Hoffman, born December 12th 1895, married Rose Joseph and had at least one child. Mervyn at Cape Town in February 4th 1936-1988

There is someone on Ancestry (Hoffman Tree) with Isaac as a relative. ...

I have not been able to turn up this particular Hoffman Tree at Ancestry, or a Mervyn Hoffman except one who went to Australia.   Can you help me find the tree?

Thanks

got the automated response to that one 

Good!  So let us know what they say.  I am a skeptic - I would be surprised if you were satisfied with their initial response.  As I mentioned  before, they may send you a standard response that you have to emphatically explain why it doesn't fit, to get a meaningful answer.  If you get a good response, great, if not, do not give up, reiterate your question with more clarity.

I think the work they are doing is fantastic, but they get so many many emails that it sometimes  is hard for them to give meaningful responses.

It's been like this for days and I've sent them a message.  There are quite a few unavailale 

If it does not get better, send them an email.  You should get a robotic confirmation email.  If you do not, email again.  Once you hear back, if you are not satisfied with their answer, jump up and down a bit and explain why their answer is not helpful and get them to give you a better answer.

They do say they revise the whole site at least every month, so this might just be part of another one of their regular upgrades.   But then again, in some cases (especially outside of England), they discover copywrite issues and remove databases from public access entirely.  Their Wiki pages sometimes expain what is going on, but generally not immediately.

But the more peope they hear from on an issue, the more attention they pay to it.

A place they pay a lot of attention to, is their feedback forum:

http://getsatisfaction.com/familysearch/topics/