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From: Janet Melville <>
Subject: RE: LDS
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 07:55:38 +0200

Hi Jennifer,
The LDS does have these death notices on microfice. They start 1830 - circa
1940 for the Cape and they also have them for the Free State and Transvaal
as well as Natal. The originals are stored at Salt Lake city and South
Africa LDS has copies. These can be ordered by local LDS libraries and you
can do lookups or in other cases LDS will do a look up for you for a fee.
You look up in the index what you want and send the money with the order
form (obtained from your local LDS) toPretoria and they will make a copy for
you of the death notice and send it back to you.
Janet

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles, Jennifer and Michael Bell [mailto:]
Sent: 05 May 1999 04:17
To:
Subject: RE: LDS

Hi folks,
I'm confused now. I swear there have been people on this list who have
told me that I could view microfilmed copies of death notices at the LDS. I
haven't tried ordering any as yet, so far I've had good luck finding someone
to do some look-ups for me. I was at my local LDS just a week ago and
browsed through the catalog while I was waiting for a microfilm reader to
become available. I got as far as "Cape Archives - Probate Records" which
was further subdivided up by years. Then I was told the reader was available
and I abandoned the catalog. I haven't tried asking my LDS librarian about
it. I got into a discussion with one of the librarians last year and he had
never even heard of the country called South Africa.....
So, if the answer is no, there are no death notices available, then what
are these probate records? Are they only the indexes? Are they available for
all the archives?
If it is definitive that death notices aren't available, then is anyone
out there willing to do some look-ups for me at the Cape Archives and the
Free State Archives? I have reference numbers already.

Regards,
Jennifer Bell
Virginia, USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Frykberg [mailto:]
>
> You wont get death notices from the LDS, Angie.
> She must got to the archives depot. If she is in a central place. Cape
> Town, Bloemfontein, Pretoria or Pietermaritzburg, she will need to get the
> death NOTICE. this is not a cert. but a legal document for
> probate of wills
> or intestate estates.
> A good researcher would help her.
> Pat
>

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