Hi Gerda I would love to have the addresses you are offering in Pretoria I too have an old ID number for my grandmother - it has a similar format to the ones below Thank you so much Marcella FINDLAY Shames On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Desre Bean wrote: > Hi Gerda, > > Unfortunately I live in England so it would be a bit difficult for me to get to the Home affairs. > I have been trying for so many years to get info on my Grandmother side of the family and I am running out of ideas. > > The marriage certificate that you received were there parents names on it. Or did you have to tell them the names before you ordered the certificate? > > By the way I am from Richards Bay, what a small world this is.. > > Regards > Desre > > On 14 Nov 2011, at 18:01, Gerda gmail wrote: > >> Maybe I am a bit late for this reply, but I have just received my father's >> information from Home Affairs and he never had the new number - in fact his >> number doesn't even convey that he was a citizen yet, and is still his >> 'alien' number although he had been a citizen for some years already. >> >> I was married with only the old numbers, and that certificate was also easy >> to obtain. >> >> Furthermore, if you have a date and a place you can get much earlier >> certificates from Home Affairs (I received my parents-in-law's marriage >> certificate from 1943, without any numbers at all) >> >> here by us (KZN) Home affairs seems very jacked up. If you live near >> Pretoria I can give you some addresses where documents are easy to obtain. >> >> Gerda Pieterse >> Richards Bay >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Desre Bean" <dezbean@gmail.com> >> To: <shayes@dunelm.org.uk>; <south-africa@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 6:54 PM >> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Old South African ID numbers >> >> >>> The number I have is on her death certificate. >>> ID 348/784 299 >>> >>> Her brothers ID was 324 886644W. >>> I am not sure how the ID number use to work.. >>> >>> On 14 Nov 2011, at 16:09, Steve Hayes wrote: >>> >>>> On 14 Nov 2011 at 11:06, Desre Bean wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have a Old ID number for my grandmother.... how useful is it to have? >>>>> Would >>>>> i be able to trace birth and marriage certificates with it? >>>> >>>> Not really. >>>> >>>> It might be able to show where she was living in the 1951 census, though, >>>> if >>>> you could find a key to the numbers and districts. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Steve Hayes >>>> E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk >>>> Web: http://hayesstw.tumblr.com/ (follow me on Tumblr) >>>> Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com >>>> Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 >>>> Fax: 086-548-2525 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message