I managed to get one by looking at the birth register itself and finding the entry number. I know the KZN registers are in the Pietermaritzburg Archive It id quite long winded getting the information but worth it. I am trying to find out where other provinces are kept. I was able to pick up information on the father of an illegitimate child in the register as well. Regards Denise -----Original Message----- From: south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Helge Pretorius Sent: 10 April 2014 09:07 AM To: SA List Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Vault copies of birth and marriage certificates Dear Listers I wish to obtain vault copies of the birth certificates and marriage certificates of my grandparents and my husband's grandparents from the Department of Home Affairs (South Africa). The earliest birth was in 1908 and the earliest marriage in 1934. Has anyone had any luck obtaining such records? I have contacted them telephonically and they said that if the person did not have an ID number, it would be very difficult (almost impossible - their words) to find the records. I do know that such records are kept in the archives in Rosslyn (Pretoria). Kind regards Helge ____________________________________________________________ South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za Cotlands - Shaping tomorrows Heroes http://www.cotlands.org.za/ ------------------------------- 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

Hi Denise The Cape Town archives keeps birth certificates fro the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape which only start in 1895 ­ however there is a 100 year embargo so only birth certificates from 1915 are allowed access to. > HAWC Home Affairs Western Cape Cape Town Archives > HAEC Eastern Cape Home Affairs Cape Town Archives > HANC Home Affairs Northern Cape Cape Town Archives > > > You will first need to know in which magisterial district the birth took > place as this will determine which Archives those records are held. These > indexes are not searchable electronically except for the Western Cape > Index on Ancestry24. If someone was born in the Northern Cape, Eastern > Cape or Western Cape the records will be in the Cape Town Archives. Birth > records from Natal would be in the Pietermaritzburg Archives etc. If birth > place is unknown, you can consult the deceased estate papers and look at > the death notice. This should show a place of birth, although often it > gives just the city and not the magisterial district. Next, consult the > index to the birth in the magisterial area in which it was registered. For > a birth in Cape Town you might need to check places like Cape Town > Central, Wynberg, Docks, Green Point, Sea Point, Woodstock, Observatory > etc ? all in separate registers. It varies, but as an example, Worcester > has 62 Birth Registers dating back to 1895. There! > are about four years per register until 1933 and one register per year > thereafter. For Worcester, the earliest reference number is 1/3/57/4/1 and > it covers births from 1895 to June 1905. > Information contained in the birth registers > > Some of these books are very large, heavy and the pages are difficult to > photograph because of their size. Once you have the particular register, > you can get date of birth, child¹s name if given, mother and father, > parents address, when and where the birth was registered, if the child > was legitimate as well as race. Copies of official birth certificates > cannot be issued from the archives and photographs or photocopies of these > registers are not allowed. > > Regards > Heather > Regards Heather From: Denise Igesund via <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: Denise Igesund <denise.genealogyresearch@gmail.com>, <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 7:55 AM To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Vault copies of birth and marriage certificates I managed to get one by looking at the birth register itself and finding the entry number. I know the KZN registers are in the Pietermaritzburg Archive It id quite long winded getting the information but worth it. I am trying to find out where other provinces are kept. I was able to pick up information on the father of an illegitimate child in the register as well. Regards Denise -----Original Message----- From: south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Helge Pretorius Sent: 10 April 2014 09:07 AM To: SA List Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Vault copies of birth and marriage certificates Dear Listers I wish to obtain vault copies of the birth certificates and marriage certificates of my grandparents and my husband's grandparents from the Department of Home Affairs (South Africa). The earliest birth was in 1908 and the earliest marriage in 1934. Has anyone had any luck obtaining such records? I have contacted them telephonically and they said that if the person did not have an ID number, it would be very difficult (almost impossible - their words) to find the records. I do know that such records are kept in the archives in Rosslyn (Pretoria). Kind regards Helge ____________________________________________________________ South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za Cotlands - Shaping tomorrows Heroes http://www.cotlands.org.za/ ------------------------------- 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