Hi Renze How does one find out if one is dead? Is there a website to check that? Gwyn On 14 December 2012 06:19, First name Last name <rodg@tiscali.co.za> wrote: > Good Morning Walter, > Yesterday afternoon we were all sitting in the office and I decided to > start checking ID numbers of all the people whom we knew were deceased. > Well it was an eye opener. We checked 17 people, all but one were still > married and the one lady's husband passed away 18 years ago. > Just goes to show if you do not know about these things and do them > yourself, then it just does not get done. > Thanks to you and everyone who assisted with this problem. > > Regards, > > Rod g > > > From: renze01@vwsa.co.za > Sent:2012-11-30 12:18:21 > To: south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com > Cc: > Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] DHA widow or widower > Hi Rod, > This is very common within our DHA. I am a marriage officer and do > sometimes find that I have to "divorce" someone before I can marry them > (those who had brought me their final decree of divorce). This process is > supposed to be a simple one for death. The DHA issues a Death Certificate > to the undertaker or the relatives of the deceased on the day that it is > registered (they have to be informed of the event, otherwise they are not > able to issue a Death Certificate). This they are supposed to send through > to Pretoria (which should work via the computer system, but often does not). > It is frustrating when this occurs I know. And it's a very simple process > for them to just log on when you produce the required documents (right > there in your presence) and change it. > On the issue of getting married again, you just need to produce the Death > Certificate to the marriage officer and if he does pick up the problem with > DHA, he can easily have it rectified without much issues. > You can check your marital status online by filling in your id no: > http://www.home-affairs.gov.za/marital_status.asp > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >