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From: "Steve Hayes" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Naturalization
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 04:00:38 +0200
In-Reply-To: <012401c41833$e58df120$735323cb@topend.com.au>


On 2 Apr 2004 at 7:54, Rick Vass wrote:

> Good Morning List
>
> This is probably yet another naive question but was naturalization practised
> after the British controlled the Cape Colony?
>
> Naturalization papers in Australia can provide interesting data including age
> and residenctial address at application, place and date of birth. Place of
> departure, date and place of arrival, and length and place of residence in
> Australia.
>
> If non-British immigrants were encouraged to become naturalized how does one
> access these records? I have not been aware of them being indexed on NAAIRS.

They are indexed, as I have come across several references when searching the
index, but I've never called for them, as they have never seemed to relate to
the subject of my search.

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