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