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Using South African ID numbers for genealogy.

Started by Private User on Wednesday, August 11, 2021
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Regarding familysearch.org results not appearing in searches. I contacted them via the "Feedback" tag and I was told that certain records have a contractual time limit. They are still there but not searchable. The person I spoke to found the particular record I was looking for. Unfortunately I can't recall how he managed this. So some records do a disappearing trick.

Found some Unindexed Pages for South Africa .
Baptisms, marriages and deaths on
Unindexed project here on GENI.
You have to know place and year -- then just go through
sometimes 2000 pages

The records I was referring to were previously indexed and searchable.

Veronica -- I have discovered some of those via Wikitree

Maybe a good start would be to get the name of the place involved correct when asking Home Affairs anything -- it would help.
1904 - Klerksdorp, Transvaal Colony not Klerksdorp, Northwest Province that would be Matlosana ,Northwest Province
Same
1863- Grahamstown, Cape Colony not Grahamstown , Eastern Cape that would be Makhanda ,Eastern Cape.

In 1961 no North West Province existed as well.

@ Phillipp Weyers - my grandfather was born in Eichendorfstrasse, Berlin in 1887 (birth certificate states it was in Prussia)
My nephew found it in the Berlin Archives via an Ancestry search. Cost an alarming 60 Euros. But very precious and very lucky it survived both world wars and it was traced.

Charlette -Great discovery.Aways stick to what is on the actual documents

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