Hello Marion Welcome to the Cape Town Mailing list One of the best places to start your research is the National Archives at www.national.archives.gov.za on this site you go to the National Automated Archival Retrieval System and choose the Data base RSA. Then type in either the surname only in the first line or the surname in the first line and then the christian name in the second line. You will then give given a number of hits - you can then click on the document you think might be the one you are looking for and it will give you a brief description of the document. You will either have to write to the archives concerned, ask someone nicely on the list or pay a researcher. I did a quick search on the surname of AFFLECK and found 66 documents. When asking on the mailing list for information on a particular person please try and give as much information as you can so we know which decade or year we are dealing with. With regards to Andrew Bryson these documents below were found in the Cape Town Archives SELECT SOURCE VOLUME NO REFERENCE DESCRIPTION BEGIN DATE END DATE MOOC 13/1/5486 29 BRYSON, ANDREW. LIQUIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT. FIRST ACCOUNT. 1926 1926 MOOC 6/9/2720 6453 BRYSON, ANDREW. ESTATE PAPERS. 1924 1924 DOC 4/1/803 4571 MORTGAGE BOND. ANDREW BRYSON. 1901 1901 DOC 4/1/875 5633 MORTGAGE BOND. ANDREW BRYSON. 1902 1902 DOC 4/1/219 87 MORTGAGE BOND. ANDREW BRYSON. 1887 1887 MOOC 13/1/5516 395 BRYSON, ANDREW. LIQUIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT. SECOND ACCOUNT. 1926 1926 A death notice (which is usually included in the estate papers) will give you the following information: 1. Full names and Surnames of the deceased. 2. Dates and Places of : birth, marriage (sometimes) and death 3. Details of spouse and sometimes predeceased or ex wife 4. Details of children and sometimes dates of birth or ages 5. Details of parents sometimes states whether they are deceased or not 6. Sometimes grandchildren names and dates of birth or ages Do you know who Andrew's mother was ? hope this helps Kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society/socweb.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marion Affleck" <renfrew@iinet.net.au> To: <SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] Re: SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-D Digest V04 #51 > --=======1ED02B3D======= > Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-29D37590; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Hi there > I am new to the list.Scottish but living in West Australia. All my > ancesters are Scottish. I came across a MI which give details of the Death > of Andrew Bryson aged 75 who died in Cape Town on 6th December 1924 his > mother also died there 29/4/1907. > Does anyone have any connections to these folk, also any Afflecks who may > have migrated to SA > Thanks > Marion > > > --=======1ED02B3D======= > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-29D37590 > Content-Disposition: inline > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.708 / Virus Database: 464 - Release Date: 18/06/04 > > --=======1ED02B3D=======-- > > > ==== SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN Mailing List ==== > Cape Town Family History Society > www.genealogy.co.za/society.html > > ============================== > 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 > > > >