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From: "JCCI\\MAUREEN BRADY" <>
Subject: Re: Archive refs.
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 11:05:59 +0200


Hi Pat

In answer to your first question -- according to the instructions I got with
my disks, to order documents, all you need are the following references:
Depot, Source, Volume No & Reference No, and if there is more than one part
to the documents, which Part.

As to the second question, I think the Reference No would be most
appropriate, because if the document is a Death Notice, this is its number.
Perhaps you should also mention the Depot.

I recently engaged the services of a genealogist, Cecilia Hawkins, to look
up documents for me at the Cape Archives, with very satisfying results. I
have previously posted her contact details to the List --


She transcribed the relevant info & emailed the results to me. As much of
the material was typescripts & not original documents, I didn't go to the
trouble of getting photocopies made. Apparently many of the files are bound
& quite fragile, so perhaps it isn't a good idea to subject them to the
stresses of being photocopied, unless they are real handwritten originals
with an ancestor's signature, etc.

Hope this helps.
Regards
Maureen Brady
Johannesburg

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug & Pat Frykberg <>
To: <>
Date: 03 December 2000 03:48
Subject: Archive refs.


>Goodmorning all,
>2 questions:
>1.I have had three disks from the archives.
>Some have the TAB document number but the depot as KAB
>When requesting a copy which do I quote?
>2. In the body of my history I have made a habit of making the source refs
in footnotes/endnotes.
>What would I use from these disks as a definite source? the TAB Doc Number?
or....?
>Thanks
>Pat
>
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