Some may not remember, but we used to have green cards before the book of life, and those can also be found. Gerda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karel Marais" <turando101@yahoo.com> To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Old South African ID numbers Hi, 690802 5462 081 is an id number. The ID number code is: 690802 - date of birth 1969 August 02 5462 - above 5000 is male and below is female 0 - If 0 SA born if 1 born out of SA 8 - used to be the race denominator now just a check number 1 - check code or number Hope this helps, Cheers, Karel Marais Marais x Thurnau, Lloyd x Pienaar, Bennett x Cloete, Webber x Maskrey, Kapp x Slabbert, Bestbier x Du Toit ________________________________ From: Keith Meintjes <umfundi@usa.net> To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, 14 November 2011, 15:14 Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Old South African ID numbers Do you mean the "book of life" number that was issued from about 1970? If so, the first few numbers are the birth date: yymmdd. Race used to be encoded in the number, but that was changed some years ago. I am not aware of any encoding in the previous ID number. Keith ------ Original Message ------ Received: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:07:20 AM EST From: Desre Bean <dezbean@gmail.com> To: SOUTH-AFRICA@rootsweb.com Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Old South African ID numbers Dear listers 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? Thanks Desre ------------------------------- 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