On 15 Apr 2015 at 9:16, Heather MacAlister via wrote: > 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. That is at least an advance on the previous system, where you had to apply to Home Affairs, and they had to fish the registers out of the archives in order to provide a certificiarte, which is why it was so expensive and took so long. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525