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From: Wally & Elrine Greig <>
Subject: Re: Stikland / Bellville Cemetery
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:31:21 +0200


At 09:37 PM 9/9/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>I went to the Stikland Cemetery to-day and found the caretaker there, a Mr
>Oosthuizen has started to enter all the names and dates that he has into a
>database. At present he has more than 24 000 names in his database. He hopes
>to have all the names in 3/4 months time. That will give us info as from
>1947 to present time. He does not know if the Municipality will allow he to
>issue copies of this info, but will find out how they feel once he has
>completed the task.
>Both he and his wife are "Radio Hams", but I don't know their call sign.
>Hope you find the above of interest.
>Just a word of warning, you may find some small errors in the database.
>I was looking for William MacDonald Spence b 25-10-1905, which we found
>under MacDonald.
>Regards,
>ROY.
I presume that this cemetery falls under what used to be known as the "City
of Bellville". (Forgive me for not knowing their present name). C o
Bellville was a very progressive Municipality, and I am sure that in the
'Old" days they would have released this database, even if they levied a
fee. The officials, who make many of the decisions, have not, to my
knowledge, changed extensively, and it should, therefore, be possible to
obtain a copy. It would probably be best for the GSSA to make a formal
approach.

I presume that because Mr Oosthuizen has a PC in his office, he is doing
this as part of his job. If however, it is his own PC and he is doing it of
his own volition, we should see what can be arranged privately. Sometimes
one needs to use "creative" methods.
Regards
Wally Greig

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