Dorothy, please let us know what you find out. Very interesting subject. Thanks, Jan GenTips-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > GenTips-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 172 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [GT] Re: GenTips-D Digest V00 #171 [SantiDClaireS@aol.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from GenTips-D, send a message to > > GenTips-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > TO POST TO THE LIST, PLEASE SEND MAIL TO: > > Gentips-l@rootsweb.com > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [GT] Re: GenTips-D Digest V00 #171 > Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:48:06 EST > From: SantiDClaireS@aol.com > To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi All > Merry Christmas and a very Happy,Healthy New Year to everyone. I am posting > this query to all the lists I belong to because I know that someone, > somewhere knows the answer. I am researching my sisters family for her. Her > mother in law was born in India (when it belonged to England, of course) I > have located on the IGI the date and place: 1903 in Lahore, Lahore Division, > Pakistan (now). As we have been told her father was a police officer. Does > anyone know how I can obtain a birth certificate for her?? I thought about > contacting the Pakistani embassy but maybe the British took all their records > with them when they got out of India. I know they kept themselves separate > in many ways from the native population. Does anyone know for sure?? Thanks, > Dorothy in So California