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The database is hosted by the Nationaal Archief (Den Haag) and made available on the TANAP website, where you will already find transcriptions of the Resolutions of the Cape of Good Hope.
The first Phase of the project, running from October 2004 to the end of December 2005, saw the transcription of selected papers from the Orphan Chamber (Weeskamer) at the Cape. These comprise the first series of a total of 75 volumes of inventories of deceased estates dating to between c 1690 and 1820. The second Phase of the project, running from February to the end of December 2006, completed the transcription of the remaining volumes, to 1834. Some associated documents, such as auction lists (vendurollen) of the same deceased estates, are also transcribed and the whole vendurol series is indexed.
The second Phase of the TEPC project culminated in an international conference, held in Cape Town from 17 to 20 December 2006. It was organized jointly with an academic research project of the Universities of Cape Town and the Western Cape – ‘Construction of Social Identities in VOC Cape Town’. Participants were invited from Europe and Asia – around the Indian Ocean – to forge links between South African, Asian and Dutch scholars working in the fields of social history, historical archaeology and material culture studies.
The third Phase (and last) runs until the end of 2007. A series of Council of Justice volumes dealing with prisoners and convicts sent to the Cape from the East Indies (bandietenrollen) are being transcribed this year. To complement existing transcribed and indexed Orphan Chamber records, the TEPC Team is working on a variety of private papers annexed to the Distribution and Liquidation Accounts of deceased estates (MOOC14). A catalogue and selected transcriptions are being prepared.
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TEPC project is funded by the Dutch Government through the