> From: [email protected] > Subject: SOUTH-AFRICA Digest, Vol 8, Issue 355 > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 01:00:52 -0700 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Directories - "Red Books" in PE Library? (Keith Meintjes) > 2. Re: Directories - "Red Books" in PE Library? (Neil Holmes) > 3. Salomon Cornelius Vermaak - Pieter Oosthuizen (Bart Simon) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 03:22:25 -0500 > From: "Keith Meintjes" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Directories - "Red Books" in PE Library? > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Veronica, > > Sometimes I do think I am pretty good! Check out this thread: > > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE/2007-02/1171476196 > > and in particular the message: > > >> > For Ray and Richard, > These books are currently kept in the Denfield Africana Library, in the > Reference section of the Central Library in East London. They have issues > for 1904 to 1948, but there are a few missing. > I know the 1906 book is there, as I have read it myself. > The telephone number is 043 722 4991 or you may email Claire Coombe-Davis > at: > [email protected] > She is not able to do a lot of research, but I think she will answer a few > questions. > Regards > Shirley in Durban > << > > Best wishes, > > Keith > > ------ Original Message ------ > Received: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 07:37:36 AM EST > From: "Ian and Veronica" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Directories - "Red Books" in PE Library? > > "East London and Frontier Red Book" are directories listing the people who > lived in the towns and villages of that area > (including the Transkei) often giving their occupations as well. > The modern equivalent would be the Braby's Directories. > Veronica > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis Pretorius > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 3:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Directories - "Red Books" in PR Library? > > Hallo Veronica > > Forgive my ignorance - but please tell me what the RED BOOKS are ? > > Kind regards > > Dennis Pretorius > Krugersdorp South Africa > Tel - 011-762-8911 > Cel - 083-679-8541 > Fax - 086-609-8541 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian and Veronica > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 2:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Directories - "Red Books" in PR Library? > > Good Morning > > Can anyone tell me if the Port Elizabeth Library has a collection of "Red > Books"? > If so, how complete is it? > Are they readily available and how easy is it to access them? > he message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:14:39 +0200 > From: "Neil Holmes" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Directories - "Red Books" in PE Library? > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > The East London museum also had a set of these books. I don't know if they > were moved to the library or wether they are another set. > > Neil. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Keith Meintjes" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 10:22 AM > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Directories - "Red Books" in PE Library? > > > > Veronica, > > > > Sometimes I do think I am pretty good! Check out this thread: > > > > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE/2007-02/1171476196 > > > > and in particular the message: > > > >>> > > For Ray and Richard, > > These books are currently kept in the Denfield Africana Library, in the > > Reference section of the Central Library in East London. They have issues > > for 1904 to 1948, but there are a few missing. > > I know the 1906 book is there, as I have read it myself. > > The telephone number is 043 722 4991 or you may email Claire Coombe-Davis > > at: > > [email protected] > > She is not able to do a lot of research, but I think she will answer a few > > questions. > > Regards > > Shirley in Durban > > << > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Keith > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > > Received: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 07:37:36 AM EST > > From: "Ian and Veronica" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Directories - "Red Books" in PE Library? > > > > "East London and Frontier Red Book" are directories listing the people who > > lived in the towns and villages of that area > > (including the Transkei) often giving their occupations as well. > > The modern equivalent would be the Braby's Directories. > > Veronica > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dennis Pretorius > > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 3:26 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Directories - "Red Books" in PR Library? > > > > Hallo Veronica > > > > Forgive my ignorance - but please tell me what the RED BOOKS are ? > > > > Kind regards > > > > Dennis Pretorius > > Krugersdorp South Africa > > Tel - 011-762-8911 > > Cel - 083-679-8541 > > Fax - 086-609-8541 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian and Veronica > > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 2:34 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Directories - "Red Books" in PR Library? > > > > Good Morning > > > > Can anyone tell me if the Port Elizabeth Library has a collection of "Red > > Books"? > > If so, how complete is it? > > Are they readily available and how easy is it to access them? > > he message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 00:46:59 +0200 > From: "Bart Simon" <[email protected]> > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Salomon Cornelius Vermaak - Pieter Oosthuizen > To: "RW RSA" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > MGC: > > Salomon Cornelius Vermaak (A hunter and lived in Tuli) b:Abt. 1843 probably South Africa, m:10-02-1896 at Dutch Reformed Church, Bulawayo, Rhodesia to Magdalena Susanna Bezuidenhout. [Magdalena, aged 21, married Salomon Cornelius Vermaak, a widower, aged 53.]. It seems he also m. Sophia Aletta Oosthuizen probably the dg of a co-hunter also of Tuli named Pieter Oosthuizen. Can anyone tell me more of this Pieter Oosthuizen ?. He hunted with Selous, but I would like to know where he fits into the Oosthuizen tree ?. > > B.S. [!!!] > ================= > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the SOUTH-AFRICA list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the SOUTH-AFRICA mailing list, send an email to [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of SOUTH-AFRICA Digest, Vol 8, Issue 355 > ********************************************