Hi Coral It is a diseases that I cannot get rid of - my husband has given up with me when he knows that genealogy is more important than South Africans' wining gold at the Olympic games - I give gold advice to people - and that I just love . kind regards Heather Join the Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society/socweb.htm Join the Cape Town Mailing list at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ZAF/SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Foster, Coral A." <Coral.Anna.Foster@wwrc.virginia.gov> To: "Heather MacAlister" <heather@ancestors.co.za> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 6:45 PM Subject: RE: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] Hi from new member to this list. Heather MacAlister...I could picture each step along the way as you'd written it for Chandre...thanks for a delightful glimpse back into my past beloved Cape Town! Have a good evening, Coral Anna PS: Chandre, good luck w/ your research, as heather says, once the "bug" bites, it will get into your bloodstream and you are "hooked" for life! I hope you find all the info you need. You sound as though you have a lovely interesting ancestry to trace too! CA -----Original Message----- From: Heather MacAlister [mailto:heather@ancestors.co.za] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 12:13 PM To: SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] Hi from new member to this list. Hi Chandre Welcome to our mailing list. OK so you want to trace your family tree, be warned it is highly addictive and is a very powerful drug. You are lucky enough to have what I call "fresh bones" - you will have to make a trip to the Master of the Supreme Court in Parade Street, Cape Town. The Master's Office - Street Address: Parade Street, Cape Town. Opposite Wooltru House. This repository holds the Estate Papers of deceased persons from 1958 until present as well as Trusts. Also Insolvencies from 1986 onwards. You can search the indexes in the reading room, then make sure you have brought pen and paper with, and then you can proceed to the vault underneath the building where you will be handed the papers for your perusal. Be very wary as under normal circumstances will only let you have three estate papers per day. This office is open from 7.45 am until 1.0'clock on Mondays to Fridays. Tel 021-4108300. Park on the Grand Parade facing the City Hall - Parade street is the road to the left of the City Hall. Walk up one block - cross over to the right hand side of the road and it is the second building on your right after the barriers in the road - not even three minutes walk from the car park. You can then go into the main building and before you get to the counter there is a small passage and a room on the right hand side with a few ladies tying away on their computers. Ask one of them to look up the estate number on the computer - if she cannot help you go straight to the counter and ask the ladies there. Then ask them what room the estate will be in - they are kept in separate "groups" until the files are sent down to the vault underneath the building. Once you get to your correct destination you will be given a brown manila folder with "everything you need to know" - do take along pencil and a note book and if you have digital camera tuck it in your hand bag as the security chaps have a fetish for women with digital camera's for some unknown reason. In this folder there should be a death notice which "should" give details of parents, place of birth, age, ID number, place of marriage, marital status, spouse details, details on children and heirs etc, copy of ID book, will, liquidation and distribution account, tax certificates, newspaper clippings, burial details etc. Do let us know when you have been and if it was a success. kind regards Heather - wet and rainy, Lakeside Heather's South African Genealogy Help List at www.genealogy.co.za is soon due to be re-vamped and re-launched. This web site will have more content and more surprises.......please keep watching my home page for the latest announcements. Join the Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society/socweb.htm Join the Cape Town Mailing list at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ZAF/SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chandre De Wet" <chandre@tsf.org.za> To: <SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 12:06 PM Subject: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] Hi from new member to this list. Hi there, I am Chandre De Wet, from the northern suburbs of Cape Town, and I am interested in tracking down my family roots, although this is now a bit overdue, as my gran(my main source of info) died in January this year... As an introductory e-mail I will put down all I know, but I can possibly get more info from my mother and aunts. My grandmother (Anne Young Clarke) was a coloured woman born in 1922,I think near Kakamus, Upington area. Although she has spent many years in Franschoek and Strand. Her grandfather was one of 2 white brothers from England,and His name was Jesse Clark. His brother married white, while he married a "baster vrou" as she put it... ( i am not too sure if the surname is Clarke or Clark). We do have a photograph of him, and a painting too,although no information is written on it. Hope you guys can help me. ==== SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN Mailing List ==== Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society/socweb.htm ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 ==== SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN Mailing List ==== Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237