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From: "Doug & Pat Frykberg" <>
Subject: Re: Archive refs.
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:44:33 +1300


Thanks Maureen.
I got those instructions too, but many of my items have a TAB document
number with a KAB depot.
I presume I must go to the Cape for the document even though I know the
event, death, therefore estate papers and DNs took place in Johannesburg?
Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: JCCI\MAUREEN BRADY <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, 3 December 2000 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Archive refs.


>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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