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From: "Gavin Came" <>
Subject: Re: How will this impact on genealogy?
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:58:20 +0200


Perhaps it would be productive to establish how many countries in the world
have similar laws?

Gavin Came
-----Original Message-----
From: B & A Lehmkuhl <>
To: <>
Date: 04 April 1999 09:38
Subject: RE: How will this impact on genealogy?

>At 06:19 PM 4/4/99 +0200, you wrote:
>>It is this kind of slanted reporting that When-We's thrive on. Of course
the
>>legislation is excellent and in the interest of genealogists.
>>Coen Spamer
>>
>Hi
>I take great exception to being labeled a "When-We".
>The reason why I posted the article (from the SOUTH AFRICAN Sunday Times),
>was because I think that the law is harsh. For a collector of Africana
>books, it impacts negatively. If the SA govt wants to own articles of
>national heritage importance, then it must buy those articles just like
>everyone else. They cannot expropriate articles that I or others outside
>the country have bought for our own collections.
>Already Archives in SA are experiencing problems as far as delivering a
>service to genealogists, so how will this law be maintained and enforced
>properly, when basic Archives duties are not?
>Will my grandfather's Anglo-Boer War medals and POW memorabilia be taken
>away from me? I just wonder when this type of law will also claim ownership
>to South African family trees?
>
>Anne Lehmkuhl - South African genealogical researcher / publisher
>Web site http://www.rupert.net/~lkool/
>
>
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