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From: "Steve Hayes" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] MOSS/ BOSSENGER
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 06:04:15 +0200
In-Reply-To: <000501c46133$8d5809c0$0200a8c0@sahara>


On 3 Jul 2004 at 21:15, Dennis Pretorius wrote:

> Hallo R
>
> Quite a number of voter's rolls are available in various archives but the
> indexing is not consistent.
>
> Some Voters Rolls for the early Cape are available in the Cape Archives as
> well as on CD from Heather.
>
> For the period around 1925 to 1931 Provincial Voters Rolls are available in
> printed form indexed by Voting District which does not help unless you know
> where the person was at the time.
>
> The 1972 Voters Roll is available in the National Archives in Pretoria in
> printed form and indexed alphabetically.
>
> The 1980, 1984 and 1989 voters roll are available on Microfiche - mainly in
> the hands of a few lucky people in South Africa. The only one available to the
> public as far as I am aware is at the LDS library in Johannesburg and is the
> 1984 volume.

The 1980 and 1989 voters rolls were available at the HSRC, but I believe
their genealogical collections have been taken over by GISA - the
Genealogiocal Institute of South Africa - in Stellenboach.



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