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The first Phase of the project saw the transcription of selected papers from the Orphan Chamber (Weeskamer) at the Cape. These comprised inventories of deceased estates dating to between c 1690 and 1834 (MOOC8). Five volumes of associated documents, the auction lists (vendurollen) of the same deceased estates, were also transcribed and the whole vendurol series (MOOC10) was indexed. In 2005 a series of public workshops showed what these fascinating documents contained and explored how they could be used and developed by different groups.
The second Phase culminated in an international conference, held in Cape Town in December 2006. It was organized jointly with an academic research project of the Universities of Cape Town and the Western Cape. 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 proceedings of the conference were published in N. Worden (ed.), Contingent Lives: Social Identity and Material Culture in the VOC World (Historical Studies Department, University of Cape Town, 2008) and some papers were published in the academic journals Kronos (33) 2007 and South African Historical Journal (59) 2007.
The third Phase saw the transcription of a series of Court of Justice volumes dealing with prisoners and convicts sent to the Cape from the East Indies (bandietenrollen), and lists of VOC employees and residents at the Cape from 1656 until 1789. To complement the transcribed and indexed Orphan Chamber records, the TEPC Team made a catalogue of a variety of unbound private papers annexed to the Distribution and Liquidation Accounts of deceased estates (MOOC14).
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TEPC project (2004-2008) was funded by the Dutch Government through the