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From: "JCCI\\MAUREEN BRADY" <>
Subject: Re: Death Certificate
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:49:25 +0200


Hi Jill
We could use someone with some legal knowledge on this List, to explain to
us when & where Death Notices versus Death Certificates are required. As far
as I know, you won't find records of DCs at FHCs, but I'll be very happy to
be proved wrong! Another thing, when you find a DN at the FHC, you can get a
copy of the actual document, but when you write off to Home Affairs for a
DC, you get a standard form that records information off the original, not a
copy of the original. Does this form record everything that is stated on the
original?
Regards
Maureen
-----Original Message-----
From: Jill Martin <>
To: <>
Date: 04 December 2000 08:45
Subject: Re: Death Certificate


>Maureen
>
>I obtained a photocopy of the death notice of one of my impecunious
>ancestors who died in what is now the Eastern Cape from the Mowbray FHC. It
>bluntly states: "Left nothing", and she died a natural death at her
>daughter's home in her old age. So maybe what you wrote doesn't always
>apply. This particular one had an amazing amount of information about her
>family, so I feel it's worth a try.
>
>Jill
>
>
>>As I've learned on my travels, you'll only find Death Notices at FHCs, not
>>Death Certificates. If there was no estate, there would be no DN, unless
>>there were special circumstances, like some of the ones I've seen going
>>through microfilms: accidental deaths by drowning, deaths in custody of
>some
>>institution (prison, leper colony, etc). Some of my relatives left no
>estate
>>so I had to write for DCs from Home Affairs (or, if you're overseas -- as
>>Keith Meintjes points out -- your nearest SA Embassy).
>
>
>
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