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In many instances, the colonial state has left a strong imprint on the postcolonial archive. In the National Archives of Namibia (NAN), for instance, it is difficult to locate pre-independence person-related records of the black majority, while the same type of records of their light-skinned compatriots are easily accessible. This lecture discusses a substantial corpus of about 11 000 so-called "Native Estates" files which previously were not accessible through the existing finding aids. What is the research potential of these formerly neglected and untouched records in particular regarding the social history of contract labour in Namibia and of African migrants on a wider scale? Furthermore, a substantial amount of estate files of migrants from other African countries were discovered -- a feature of Namibian history that has rarely been researched. The sometimes very detailed files reveal information on the migrants' origin, their integration in Namibian society and expatriate networks in the country. They also reveal that not only Angolans and West Africans but also a substantial number of migrants from other Southern African colonies found employment opportunities in Namibia during the colonial era. The "Native Estate" records thus have an important research potential with regard to the entire Southern African region, which was heavily reliant on migrant labour both on the demand and on the supply side.
Probate records --- Court records --- Genealogy --- Wills --- National Archives (Namibia) --- Namibia. --- National Archives of Namibia --- Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Emigration and immigration.
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Electronic records --- Archives --- Related Historical Sciences --- History & Archaeology --- Archives, Ancient Documents & Seals --- Computer-based records --- Digital records --- Digitized records --- Documents in machine-readable form --- Machine-readable records --- Records --- United States. --- National Archives and Records Administration (U.S.) --- NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) --- National Archives (U.S. : 1985- ) --- National Archives at College Park (U.S.) --- Beikoku Kokuritsu Kōbunshokan
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Ellen Ndeshi Namhila is intrigued by the question: Why can the National Archives of Namibia respond to genealogical enquiries of Whites in a matter of minutes with finding estate records of deceased persons, while similar requests from Blacks cannot be served? Not satisfied with the sweeping statement that this is the result of colonialism and apartheid, she follows the track of so-called "Native estates" through legislation, record creation and disposal, records management and administrative neglect, authorised and unauthorised destruction, transfer and appraisal, selective processing, and (almost) final amnesia. Eventually she discovers over 11,000 forgotten surviving African estate records -- but also evidence for the destruction of many others. And she demonstrates the potential of these records to interpret the lives of those who otherwise appear in history only as statistics -- records which were condemned to destruction by colonial archivists stating they had "little research value and no functional value". This study of memory against forgetting is a call to post-colonial archives to re-visit their holdings and the systemic colonial bias that continues to haunt them. This is the revised version of Ellen Namhila's 2015 doctoral thesis published at the University of Tampere, Finland.
Estates (Law) --- Probate records --- Limitations (Law) --- Estate planning --- Inheritance and succession --- Probate law and practice --- Real property --- Court records --- Genealogy --- Wills --- National Archives (Namibia) --- Namibia. --- National Archives of Namibia --- Namibia --- Race relations --- Statistics, Vital. --- GRN (Namibia) --- Namibia ye Likuluhile --- Namibië --- Namibii︠a︡ --- Republic of Namibia --- S.W.A./Namibia --- SWA/Namibia --- SWA/Namibië --- South-West Africa
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"Terra Nostra is a celebration of the mapping of Canada-for Library and Archives Canada, it is also a celebration and a sharing of the extraordinary historical resource that is contained in its cartographic holdings. The collection spans an incredible array of mapping initiatives, from the portolan charts of the early explorers, to recent aerial images of east coast ice floes." "Canada's maps have been many things to many people: for early merchant-adventurers, they promised fame and fortune; for army commanders, they strengthened their hold on the land; for politicians, they legitimized their dominion over the country; for businessmen, they proclaimed their sense of community pride; and for ordinary citizens, they were testaments to the type of communities they wanted for their children. As repositories of intellectual thought, Canada's maps provide evidence of our nation's technical accomplishments and offer insight into the growth of our geographical knowledge. They are windows on our view of the world. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Cartography --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- History. --- Canada --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kanada (Dominion) --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey --- Καναδάς --- Канада --- קאנאדע --- קנדה --- كندا --- کانادا --- カナダ --- 加拿大 --- 캐나다 --- Lower Canada --- Upper Canada --- Historical geography --- Kaineḍā --- Library and Archives Canada --- Canada. --- Bibliothèque et archives Canada --- National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada --- Bibliothèque nationale du Canada et Archives nationales du Canada --- LAC (Library and Archives Canada) --- L&AC --- National Archives of Canada --- National Library of Canada --- Map collections
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Fine-rolls. --- Fines and recoveries --- Land tenure --- Fine-rolls --- Arrhes et recouvrements --- Propriété foncière --- History --- Sources. --- Histoire --- Sources --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- 942.03 --- Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1154-1399) --- 942.03 Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1154-1399) --- Propriété foncière --- National archives
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Svenska Riksarkivet --- -Sweden. --- Svenska riksarkivet --- Shvedskīī gosudarstvennyī arkhiv --- Sweden. --- Riksarkivet (Sweden) --- Stokgolʹmskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv --- RA --- National Archives of Sweden --- Catalogs --- Sweden --- Foreign relations --- -Sources --- -Bibliography --- -Catalogs. --- -Catalogs --- Suède --- Zweden --- Schweden --- Svezia --- Suecia --- Zviedrija --- Shvet︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Szwecja --- Sverige --- Konungariket Sverige --- Kingdom of Sweden --- スウェーデン --- Suwēden
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Maps for Family and Local History shows how three great land surveys can provide information on ancestral homes, as well as fascinating historical snapshots of specific areas. Covering 1836 to 1943, the Tithe, Valuation Office, and National Farm Surveys provide a wealth of information on rural and urban localities, on dwellings, settlements, and landscapes as well as the status of householders. The text gives the rationale behind the surveys and covers each in detail. Fully updated by map experts from The National Archives, this illustrated guide is the perfect companion to researchi
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Archivistics --- Canada --- Public records --- Archives --- Archives publiques --- Public Archives Canada. --- 930.25 <71> --- 091 <05> --- Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek--Canada --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Tijdschriften --- Public Archives Canada. Federal Archives Division --- -Catalogs --- Politics and government --- -Sources --- -Bibliography --- -Catalogs. --- 091 <05> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Tijdschriften --- 930.25 <71> Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek--Canada --- National Archives of Canada. --- Public Archives Canada --- Catalogs. --- Canada (Province) --- Province of Canada --- Dominion of Canada --- Ḳanadah --- Ḳanade --- Kanada (Dominion) --- Chanada --- كندا --- Канада --- Καναδάς --- Kanadas --- Republica de Canadá --- Dominio del Canadá --- Kanado --- کانادا --- Ceanada --- Yn Chanadey --- Chanadey --- 캐나다 --- Kʻaenada --- Kanakā --- קנדה --- カナダ --- Canadae --- Kanadaja --- 加拿大 --- קאנאדע --- Upper Canada --- Lower Canada --- Sources --- Bibliography --- Jianada --- Kaineḍā
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Covering a large portion of the period from the early seventeenth century to the contemporary era, the Kalmyk National Archive has particularly rich holdings from the pre-revolutionary period, which makes it an outstanding source for historical studies on Russia’s ‘internal colonialism’ at the Empire’s southern frontiers. Unfortunately, most of this documentation was lost after the revolution and the civil war. Another part of the archive disappeared during WW II or was deliberately destroyed during the subsequent deportation of the Kalmyk people in 1942. Prior to this, the archival funds still numbered about 70,000 complete files. We know this because information about the pre-revolutionary holdings is well-documented in the inventories contained in the archival primary record books and their inspection lists which were created mainly in the late 1930s and early 1940s and still contained the titles of all documents with a special mark next to those that had been lost over time. These old inventories were revised in the late 1990s and became the subject of an updated edition. Unfortunately, in this case, too, all the lost documents were deleted from the new archival inventories. These previous records, which, given the loss of the documents themselves, provided the only historical record of much of Kalmyk and Russian imperial history, have now disappeared. However, in the mid-1990s I could take copies of the primary inventories, which already then were in a deplorable state. During my archival research in recent years, I began to work with these old archival books in order to describe, inventory and analyse this particular ‘colonial archive’. The results of this work are presented in this publication. Thus, we have a description of the metadata, including the titles of those documents that were either subjected to the horrendous waste campaign of the Soviet era, or were destroyed to erase inconvenient historical truth. In addition to such echoes from the distant and now inaccessible past, this publication presents an up-to-date inventory of pre-revolutionary documents stored to this day in the Kalmyk National Archive.
HISTORY / Modern / General. --- Russian and Kalmyk history. --- colonial history. --- historical and political anthropology. --- imperial turn. --- Nat︠s︡ionalʹnyĭ arkhiv Respubliki Kalmykii︠a︡ --- Bi︠u︡dzhetnoe uchrezhdenie Respubliki Kalmykii︠a︡ "Nat︠s︡ionalʹnyĭ arkhiv" --- BU RK "Nat︠s︡ionalʹnyĭ arkhiv" --- Kalmykii︠a︡ (Russia). --- NARK --- National Archives of the Kalmyk Republic --- T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Kalmyt︠s︡koĭ ASSR --- Национальный архив Республики Калмыкия --- Калмыкия (Russia). --- НАРК --- History. --- Kalmykii︠a︡ (Russia) --- Russia (Federation) --- Eluosi (Federation) --- Federation of Russia --- Federazione della Russia --- Federazione russa --- O-lo-ssu (Federation) --- OKhU --- Orosyn Kholboony Uls --- Pravitelʹstvo RF --- Pravitelʹstvo Rossii --- Pravitelʹstvo Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii --- RF --- Roshia Renpō --- Rosiĭsʹka Federat︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Rosja (Federation) --- Rossii︠a︡ (Federation) --- Rossiĭskai︠a︡ Federat︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Rossiya (Federation) --- Rossiyskaya Federatsiya --- Russian Federation --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russische Föderation --- Urysye Federat︠s︡ie --- Калмыкия (Russia) --- Kalmykia (Russia) --- Kalmykiya (Russia) --- Republic of Kalmykia (Russia) --- Республика Калмыкия (Russia) --- Respublika Kalmykii︠a︡ (Russia) --- Хальмг Тангч (Russia) --- Khalʹmg Tangch (Russia) --- Republik Kalmückien (Russia) --- Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast (Russia) --- Republic of Xhalmg Tangsh (Russia) --- Chalmg Tangtsch (Russia) --- Kalmykien (Russia) --- Kalmückien --- Khalʹmg Tan︠g︡ḣch (Russia) --- Kalmyt︠s︡kai︠a︡ A.S.S.R. (R.S.F.S.R.) --- History
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Which is in your opinion the most extraordinary archival item of your archives service and why?" The archivists of the Belgian State Archives were asked this question. There was only one constraint, as the items had to originate from the Ancien Regime: the period from the end of the Middle Ages until the French Revolution. 'Extraordinary' applied either to content or form. Thus, the archivists were given the opportunity to show off the real gems of their archives service. This book allows you to marvel at these outstanding items from the Belgian State Archives repositories
Archivistics --- anno 1500-1799 --- Belgium --- Archiefkunde. --- België. --- Archives --- 930.25 <493> --- Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek--België --- 930.25 <493> Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek--België --- anno 1500-1799. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Belgian --- Manuscripts --- Seals (Numismatics) --- Sigillography --- Signets --- Sphragistics --- Diplomatics --- Glyptics --- Heraldry --- History --- Inscriptions --- Intaglios --- Numismatics --- Emblems, National --- Signatures (Writing) --- Codices --- Books --- Nonbook materials --- Archival materials --- Charters --- Codicology --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Paleography --- Transmission of texts --- Belgian illumination of books and manuscripts --- Documents --- Manuscript depositories --- Manuscript repositories --- Documentation --- Information services --- Records --- Cartularies --- Public records --- Exhibitions --- Depositories --- Repositories --- Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium) --- Belgium. --- Algemeen Rijksarchief te Brussel --- A.G.R. (Archives générales du Royaume) --- AGR --- National Archives of Belgium --- Algemeen Rijksarchief (Belgium) --- Belgische Rijksarchieven --- Archives de l'État en Belgique --- Belgian State Archives --- Belgique --- België --- Bélgica --- Royaume de Belgique --- Belgii︠a︡ --- Kingdom of Belgium --- Koninkrijk van België --- Königreich Belgien --- Bèlgia --- Koninkryk van België --- Königriich Belgie --- Koninkrijk België --- Belgice --- Belgice Cynerīce --- بلجيكا --- Baljīkā --- مملكة بلجيكا --- Mamlakat Baljīkā --- Belchica --- Reino de Belchica --- Belghia --- Vãsilia di Belghia --- Royômo de Bèlg·ique --- Bélxica --- Reinu de Bélxica --- Bilkiya --- Bilgasuyu --- Bilhika Qhapaqsuyu --- Belçika --- Belçika Krallığı --- Бельгия --- Бельгия Короллеге --- Belʹgii︠a︡ Korollege --- Бельгія --- Belʹhii︠a︡ --- Каралеўства Бельгія --- Karaleŭstva Belʹhii︠a︡ --- Belhika --- Bäigien --- Kinigraich Bäigien --- Belgija --- Kraljevina Belgija --- Белгия --- Regne de Bèlgica --- Бельги --- Belʹgi --- Belgické království --- Gwlad Belg --- Teyrnas Gwlad Belg --- Belgien --- Kongeriget Belgien --- Bélgii Bikéyah --- Belgiska --- Kralojstwo Belgiskej --- Belgia Kuningriik --- Βέλγιο --- Velgio --- Βασίλειο του Βελγίου --- Vasileio tou Velgiou --- Reino de Bélgica --- Belgio --- Reĝlando Belgio --- Belgujo --- Belgika --- Belgje --- Belgjo --- Belgjiche --- Bheilg --- Ríocht na Beilge --- Velg --- Reeriaght ny Belg --- Belgiya --- Rìoghachd na Beilge --- Pí-li-sṳ̀ --- Belʹjmudin Nutg --- Pelekiuma --- Regno del Belgio --- בלגיה --- Belgiyah --- ממלכת בלגיה --- Mamlekhet Belgiyah --- Belgijskô --- Pow Belg --- Ruwvaneth Belgek --- Ububiligi --- Ububirigi --- Igihugu cyʼUbubirigi --- Ubelgiji --- Ufalme wa Ubelgiji --- Belezi --- Nsi ya ntotila ya Belezi --- Bèljik --- Beljika --- Beļgeja --- Beļg̓ijas Karaliste --- Belsch --- Kinnekräich Belsch --- Belgijos Karalystė --- Belsj --- Keuninkriek Belsj --- Beldjym --- Belga Királyság --- Белгија --- ベルギー --- Berugī --- Archives. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Belgian. --- Manuscripts. --- Seals (Numismatics). --- Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium) --- Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium). --- To 1555. --- Archives - Belgium
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