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From: "Steve Hayes" <>
Subject: RE: [ZA] District Hay? Karoo trekboere & Cape Rebels
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 05:29:58 +0200
In-Reply-To: <3AF35DCF9AB41642ABE8846955B0695005B43B@titan.nha.co.za>


On 1 Mar 2004 at 10:25, Solvej Vorster wrote:

> Hi Maureen,
>
> You said in this email that NAAIRS is a "work in progress". Do you or
> any of the listers know exactly how far the project is and at what rate
> index records are being added to the database? This has implications for
> searching NAAIRS, in that one might find something tomorrow that you did
> not find today.

Yes, records are always beingh added to the index. It has been going on for
about 25 years now, and will continue indefinitely, because records are
always being added to the archives.

> My other question is : If the record is not on NAAIRS how do you go
> about finding it in the first place?

There are inventories and other finding aids in the archives.

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