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Member Since: June 2006 Posts: 126 Send Message	Liesele	Report	25 Oct 2006 18:13
Member Since: June 2006 Posts: 126 Send Message	nudge
Member Since: June 2006 Posts: 126 Send Message	Liesele	Report	24 Oct 2006 15:26
Member Since: June 2006 Posts: 126 Send Message	Hi Heather, Tracing your South African ancestors like the Irish ancestors is very difficult. There are no BMD indexes like the UK or even online anywhere as far as I know. SA government destroys paper returns for their census's. It's a catch 22 situation in ordering certs as you have to know the details before you can order. Certs are ordered from the Dept. of Home Affairs. However, I have found the SA national archives very useful. I even managed to find my grandparent's divorce date. They have seperate databases for each area - Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and then the national database. Website is wwwnationalarchivesgovza. Don't forget to replace * with . Hope that you find this useful. Good luck in tracing your SA ancestors. Liesele
Member Since: September 2006 Posts: 12 Send Message	Heather	Report	24 Oct 2006 13:08
	Can anyone advise how I search for death/marriage that may have taken place in Cape Town, South Africa?