Appointed Member - GSSA National Familia Editor - Petro Coreejes-Brink 2022

Germaine SmithPetro Coreejes-Brink (born Coreejes) was born on 2 June 1973 in Bellville, Cape Town. She is the eldest of two daughters of Magrietha Louisa (Marina) van Wyk (of Brackenfell) and Gerhardus Johannes (Basie) Coreejes (of Carnarvon).
She matriculated at Brackenfell High School in 1991 and began a B.Bibl degree at Stellenbosch University. Shortly after completing her library qualification, she started as a librarian at the Cape Technicon in Cape Town.
Petro enjoys doing research and also holds a BA Hon and a master's degree in Cultural History from the University of Stellenbosch. The focus of her last qualification was on genealogical registers and naming patterns in the Coreejes family over a period of 200 years. Petro has been doing genealogical research on the Coreejes family in South Africa since 1992.
Only after completing her studies, did she become involved with the GSSA. She was one of the former presidents of the GSSA and was very active for many years in the recording on the tombstone project.
Petro has been working at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) for the past 25 years and is involved in special collections that include the GISA collections donated to the Library in 2018.
She is married to Sybrand Abraham Brink (* 08/04/1972) and has two children (Kiran * 2007 and Milina * 2008).