Hello Angie Birth Certificates only became available after 1895. Have you searched the new website www.ancestry.mweb.co.za ? their are births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, voters rolls and loads more records Kind regards Heather Heather MacAlister Learning on Line 46 Hof Street Gardens 8001 Tel: 021-481 8316 -----Original Message----- From: Angie Greenhalgh [mailto:angie.greenhalgh@xtra.co.nz] Sent: 05 November 2004 12:17 PM To: SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] Howdo I get a birth certificate? good morning from New Zealand. I am new to the group and have spent the last hour trying to ring a number which was given to me to obtain a birth certificate and the relevant costs involved. The number was 0027 12 8108911 - (only on Friday morning!) Unfortunately having been cut off three times I have given up and now ask if your group could help. I am looking for Ethel mary Gould DUNSTAN born about 1872 in Cape Town South Africa. The family were all back in ENgland on the 1881 census in Hampshire. It looks as though Ethel's father Frederick was only in South Africa for a year as the 1881 census gives the ages of his 8 children a year apart. i.e. Fred abt 1871 born in Devonport Dev England, Ethel Mary Gould Dunstan born about 1872 in Cape Town and Mary about 1873 in Portsmouth HAM. Is there an index on line to order from? Any help would be most welcome. Thank you so much for your time. Angie ==== SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN Mailing List ==== Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society/socweb.htm ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx