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From: "dpratt" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Master of the High (Supreme) Court Estates post 1994
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:59:47 +0100
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But that is the whole point of Estate Files being placed in the Masters
Office for inspection. All those people who are owned money by your estate
have to have access to ensure they are not having the wool pulled over their
eyes by your heirs
Derek

----- Original Message -----
From: "Editor" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: [ZA] Master of the High (Supreme) Court Estates post 1994


> Estate files for the post-1994 period? Dennis, isn't there some kind of
> statute of limitations on access to non-public documents? And estate files
> are non-public documents, aren't they? Surely, even in terms of the
> Promotion of Access to Information Act, anyone applying for access even to
> many public records has to motivate their reasons unless & until these
have
> been released for full public consumption, such as to an archive depot? If
I
> were to die tomorrow (God forbid), I wouldn't want to die knowing just any
> old one can have access to my last will & testament or the details about
my
> estate until sufficient time has passed for it not to matter to my heirs
> anymore.
>
> Please explain this more fully.
>
> Regards
> Maureen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Pretorius" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: 22 February 2004 02:19
> Subject: [ZA] Master of the High (Supreme) Court Estates post 1994
>
>
> > Hallo All
> >
> > At a meeting of the GSSA in Krugersdorp on Saturday I realised that very
> few
> > members are aware of a recent CD publication by GSSA - the index to
Estate
> > files for the post-1994 period.
> >
> > GSSA has bought the rights to SABINET estate files index and has placed
> the
> > information on a CD for distribution to its Members at a price of R 100.
> The
> > CD also contains all those Cape Estate files Indexed by a group of
members
> > who assisted Adelbert Semmelink with the indexing of the old and
tattered
> > index books held by the Master's Office in Cape Town. The CDNI (Cape
Death
> > Notice Index) is also available on the E-family website of Ron Smith and
> > Gerda Pieterse and is continuously updated on their website as members
> send
> > in transcriptions.
> >
> > Ron and Gerda website address: www.e-family.co.za
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Dennis Pretorius
> > Commercial Genealogical Researcher/Kommersiële Genealogiese Navorser
> > List Owner of SAGenealogy E-mail list/Lyseienaar SAGenealogie poslys
> > E-Mail/E-pos:
> > Web address/Webadres:
http://mzone.mweb.co.za/residents/k75/genealogy.html
> > Telephone/Telefoon: +27-83-324-2238
> >
> >
> >
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