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From: "Eileen & Marty Russell" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] PRO - Help Needed
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:57:57 +0200
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Dear Sue
Thank you very much for your help, this time we did get into the site and
tried out some names. Sorry to say that none of the people we're looking
for turned up.

Someone told me a story about South African archives: the hippo's ears
represent the indexes and what we can retrieve through NAAIRS, and the
hippo's body is the rest of the Archive material - we are only looking at a
very small proportion of what is actually there. The PRO is probably the
same, my men may well be on the muster rolls, pay rolls etc, but do not
have personal files that can be readily accessed.

At least now I won't be wasting anyone's precious time trying to do
impossible look ups on my behalf. It's back to the drawing board, looking
for other routes to the information.

Eileen
Richards Bay

----- Original Message -----
From: Sue Mackay <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ZA] PRO - Help Needed


>
> The address you have given is for the PRO documents on-line, where images
> can be downloaded, but as far as I know this is so far limited to pre 1858
> wills. The site you want is http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/. Type in William
> McKeown under name and limit the search to WO (war office papers) and you
> will get four hits, though they don't seem to fit your data. You could try
> typing WO97 into the top right hand corner and then clicking Browse the
> Catalogue from Here. The catalogue gives you a reference for a document
> which can be consulted at the PRO. I believe you can ask to have a record
> copied for a fee. Sadly the catalogue doesn't list all references to a
name
> found in the vast holdings.
>
> Sue
> Cardiff UK


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