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From: "Colin Pretorius" <>
Subject: [ZA] GSSA announcement
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 07:59:26 +1100


The following announcement is made with the listowner's permission

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It is with great pleasure that we announce the dawning of a new era in South
African genealogy. After much discussion which involved a few people
interested in promoting South African genealogy, ideas and plans came
together to make it possible for the Genealogical Society of South Africa
(GSSA) to open a virtual branch.

This branch is known as eGSSA.

For many years there have been people who, for various reasons, could not
join a regular GSSA branch. Some of these reasons include living too far
from a branch or living outside South Africa. These people still have a
need to belong to a branch and to enjoy the benefits of GSSA membership,
such as receiving GSSA's flagship journal, Familia. eGSSA has been established to
meet these needs.

We plan for members of eGSSA to be able to hold virtual meetings in the future, either via
streaming technology or in a chat room a-la-MSN. .

It is also planned that eGSSA will make some of the GSSA products available
electronically, and that some databases could be placed on the Internet for
search purposes. This all depends on the availability of storage capacity.


eGSSA's website is currently hosted at
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/profoto/eggsa

The management eGSSA team is as follows:

Branch Chairperson: Colin Pretorius (based in Australia)
Secretary: Anne Lehmkuhl (based in Canada)
Treasurer: André van Rensburg (based in Australia)
Technical adviser: Barry Kruger (based in Australia)
Ex Officio: Martin Zöllner (based in South Africa)

Regional representatives:

Australia/NZ/Oceania/Asia: André van Rensburg (based in Australia)
North & South America: Anne Lehmkuhl (based in Canada)
Europe & the UK: Richard Ball (based in the UK)
Africa & the Middle East: Daan Hamman (based in South Africa)

The membership fees are as follows:

South Africa R115 ( R90 per annum GSSA fee & R25 eGSSA fee) .
Rest of Africa and Middle East : US $ 22
North and South America US $22
United Kingdom GBP 10
Europe Euro 18
Aus/NZ/Oceania/Asia Aus $ 25


The abovementioned fees include an electronic copy of Familia. Other benefits include discounts on some CD products.


Current GSSA members can also join eGSSA by paying the R25 fee. Current GSSA members that already receive Familia via postal delivery, can choose to receive the electronic Familia instead.

Payments for residents IN south Africa can be done via Nedbank, while payment for residents OUTSIDE south Africa will be done via Paypal.


For those people who are not currently GSSA members, or cannot join a current branch, this is an ideal opportunity to become part of GSSA and to step into this exciting era.


Regards
Colin Pretorius

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