Hilary father in law Jimmy scholefield died in Durban. His wife Ethel and my gran Marion returned to England with my father in 1931. My tree is Forde on ancestry. I think I might have gone awry around the John, Mary entries!
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19-02-2017, 10:17 PM #21
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Am I missing something?
That sentence completely contradicts both the second sentence in your first post which said
I would like to find a birth certificate for my dad who was born in Bulawayo in 1930
His parents were married in 1929 also in Bulawayo, but I can't find anything on line on the numerous sites I've been on.However, the d grooms birth date is wrong by six years according the wedding certificate.
There is also very little information on them.
I was told it was possible to "buy" certificates for weddings that may not have been legal? Don't know if there is any truth in that.
Josephine was divorced according her marriage certificate when she married again in 1934.
I have done ok with Josephine's (my gran) family, but it was Paddy's that I would have liked to research. I wondered why there wasn't an official record of his birth or marriage on the internet?
And in spite of the large number of people researching their family history, of the billions of records which are online, only a very small percentage of those will ever be accessed.
Some countries have more available online than others, who may have very few or even none.
Many poorer countries still have very limited funds available for resources such as archives, and making those archives available to the public at large. Even by snail mail.
What is worse is knowing that records existed but have been destroyed by fire, water or bombing, lost by theft, etc.
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