Hello Christine Death notice is a official document that must be filled in when some ones dies. It is not a medical certificate. As I said before A death notice is a document telling you what the deceased persons name is, where he was born, his age, his parents names, his marital status, his occupation, his wife's name, his children's names etc. A death certificate is a medical one that generally only his name, age, place and cause of death. The were only implemented in January 1895 and not everyone complied by the rules and not everybody has a death notice. Please also note that it also depends on who filled in the death notice how accurate the information is. If it was the neighbour or the postman they probably have no idea who the deceased persons parents were or if the man had a British type accent he might put down that he was from Yorkshire but in fact he was from Newcastle. Also families are traumatised when a member of the family dies so even the wife, child or sibling filling in the form can make mistakes. A very common mistake I have seen is where a child who is a major fills in the death notice but forgets to put himself down as a child. kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands on names !!! 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the City Bowl until Simonstown. To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/socweb.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Anderson" <famhist@iinet.net.au> To: "Heather MacAlister" <heather@genealogy.co.za> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 3:47 PM Subject: Re: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] New Lister > Thank You Heather, I had thought a death notice was a newspaper death > announcement from family and friends, now I know better, will write to the > archives to see if they can supply details, Many Thanks for that, Chris in > W.Aust. > > > > >