NAAIRS - the National Archives of South Africa online index
finding aid · a copy, index or transcription · consulted 2026-08-21
- Type
- finding aid
- Repository
- National Archives of South Africa (NARSSA), NAAIRS - National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System
- Reference
- Databases: 'All Archives Repositories and National Registers of non-public records' and 'Cape Town Archives Repository' (depot KAB)
- Consulted
- 2026-08-21
The citation as it was given
*** AN INDEX, NOT A DOCUMENT REPOSITORY, AND THE DISTINCTION IS THE WHOLE POINT. *** NAAIRS returns a depot, series, volume number, reference and a one-line DESCRIPTION written by the archive. It holds no images. What a hit establishes is WHICH RECORD EXISTS and how to order it; what the record SAYS is unread until somebody reads it at KAB. 5a-ii, the two claims. | Frans ran iton the surname OOSTHUIZEN: 156 hits in the Cape Town Archives Repository, 13,196 across all repositories. | THE SERIES CODES THAT MATTER HERE: MOOC = Master of the Orphan Chamber / High Court (wills at 7/1, death notices at 6/9); CO = Colonial Office (memorials received); LG = memorials on LAND; CSC = Cape Supreme Court; LND = Lands; RLR = the loan-farm registers. | The Cape material sits at KAB, the Western Cape Archives, whatever a microfilm's own attribution says - see SRC-077.
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.
Nothing in the model cites this source yet.