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From: "Graham Bingham" <>
Subject: Re: von Creytz
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:58:16 +0300
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Janet
You could try writing to these two groups:

The National Archives of Namibia
P O Box 13250, Windhoek, 9000

National Library of Namibia
P/Bag 13349, Windhoek, Namibia
tel. +264-61-2935305, fax 2935321

The former I have written to previously. I sent a cheque with my letter,
and they sent me two very interesting death notices. The latter I have not
yet written to.

Some of the archives records of Namibia are indexed in the South African
archive indexes, which are searchable online at
http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300dl where you should
use the RSA database. I looked but did not find any Creytz entries, but
there may be some spelling variation?

All the best!
Regards
Graham

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan McLeod" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 3:26 AM
Subject: von Creytz


> Hi,
>
> I am glad to see some activity on this list. When I last looked, there
was
> nothing. I am looking for any information, or possible descendants of
> Arthur von CREYTZ, who was variously a Prussian Army officer, author of
> books about animals in war, and dogs, (German Shepherds), and a "farmer in
> Africa." We know from a letter dating back to between 1908 and 1914, that
> he had "recently arrived back in Germany from South West Africa".
>
> I believe he also married there. This is a strong possibility, as he
> certainly married elsewhere! He had at least 7 wives. I am descended
from
> his eldest son, from his first marriage, who came to Australia.
>
> Some 3rd cousins, still in Germany, have recently made contact with me,
> through Rootsweb, and were very surprised to know there were descendants
in
> Australia. They had not known about his son, my grandfather, as he
> "neglected to tell anyone he existed"!
>
> We are all interested now in trying to trace other relatives around the
> world. As you can guess, this man was known to be "eccentric", and
somewhat
> of a black sheep, and his past may not have been too savoury, including in
> Namibia, but we would like all information possible.
>
> This post is getting a bit long. Does anyone have any idea on where to
> contact to see if there are any records on him in Namibia?
>
> Thank you
>
> Janet
>
>
>
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