Re: Advice On Duplicate Entries in Registers

Charles Ellson wrote:
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:36:24 +0000, Hugh Watkins
<hugh.watkins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Roy Stockdill wrote:

it might be fun to re+register yoor own birth

ITYF only the parents can do that.

Some years ago, I applied for my full South African birth certificate. I had only ever had a short one, possibly because the long ones were more expensive: even the short one cost 2/6d which was a lot of money in those days. Presumably because I had left South Africa and changed my nationality before their records were computerised, I wasn't on the computer and they couldn't find the original registration (I gather once everything was computerised, the paper records were dumped in an Archive somewhere without being catalogued) so I had to be re-registered. Both my parents had died by then, so the authorities required the eldest child in the family to give my birth details. As I am the eldest child, I effectively re-registered my own birth. They couldn't see anything incongruous in that.

--
Anne Chambers
South Australia

anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com
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