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South Africa / Death & other records in South Africa
« on: Sunday 10 February 13 19:07 GMT (UK) »
Hi - I have in the last few days discovered that a relative emigrated to South Africa and died (as best I can tell) aroud 1996. His name was Derek Wilson and he was born in Belfast in 1938.
I was very pleased with myself when I found the Ancestry24 site and even more so when my search on there brought up records that seemed related to him. However, when I tried to access them I got a message saying the site was closing and have today received an email response from the administrator of the site saying they can't give access as membership has closed in advance of the wind-up of the site at end Feb. Although she did say the records would not be lost, there has been no decision by the company on what they will do with the data.
So I am stumped
Has anybody got any ideas about anywhere else I could search for information instead?
Ta
Rhonda
I was very pleased with myself when I found the Ancestry24 site and even more so when my search on there brought up records that seemed related to him. However, when I tried to access them I got a message saying the site was closing and have today received an email response from the administrator of the site saying they can't give access as membership has closed in advance of the wind-up of the site at end Feb. Although she did say the records would not be lost, there has been no decision by the company on what they will do with the data.
So I am stumped

Ta
Rhonda