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From: MICHAEL O'CONNOR<michael.o' >
Subject: Re: Archives Computer
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 22:52:30 +0200 (GMT)


Sonia,
To answer your question.
Anybody can call up the name on a computer in any of the archives branches.
These are in Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Pretoria, Durban and Pietermaritzburg.
By using the RSAE command the computer will give references to ALL the
repositories. The repositories also include some museums (I know the
McGregor museum in Kimberley comes up occasionally when I call up a name)
and I am not sure about the Cory Library. You can limit your search to a
particular archive if you wish but I find it better to use the RSAE command.

Here is a sample of a search I did for somebody (sorry it was close at hand
and it is not an O'Connor)
SEARCH -QUERY
0001 WIDDOWS

10613 = KAB194005735 DOCUMENT = 1 of 26
DOCNR KAB194005735
BATCH NO 009510041000
DEPOT KAB
SOURCE CO
TYPE LEER
VOLUME NO 8304
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE X3764
PART !
DESCRIPTION Widdows Band Sergeant Cape Garrison Artillery, Application for
compensation for injuries sustained at the Easter Camp at Simonstown
STARTING 1905
ENDING 1905

The important parts are:
KAB stands for the Cape Town Archives.
SOURCE CO (for colonial office)
VOLUME 8304
REFERENCE X3764

So if you are in the Cape Town archives and you want to see that document
you fill in the SOURCE, VOLUME and REFERENCE on a slip, hand it in and you
will get VOLUME 8304 from the Archives of the Colonial Office and you then
page thorugh the bound volume till you come to REFERNCE X3764.
It is as easy as that.
Incidentally I only looked through documents held in the Cape Archives hence
the initial search query is for KAB and NOT RSAE.
Hope this helps a bit Sonia.
Regards
Mike
>
>Michael
>
>You are not carrying coals to Newcastle - I have just heard snippets of
>information about this computer program, and hope to some day have a
>chance to use it. There was nothing like that when I last visited a SA
>Archives in Bloemfontein 5 years ago.
>
>Could you print out for us overseas a sheet on someone you are
>researching indicating what information you have found? Don't go to any
>trouble on someone new, just one of yours. Would there be a difference
>between an English ancestor and an Afrikaans ancestor in what information
>is available? What about Hugenot or German?
>
>Sonia
>
>
Michael O'Connor
Orchid Grower and Genealogist
Researching the names O'Connor/Connor/Connors
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa

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