Where to find BDM in Namibia1880 to 1990

[Ernest Floyd]

So many of my family lived and died in Namibia, also where I was born. Where do I start searching?

[Gillian Mauchan]

Hi Not aware of any records on-line but if you Google Namibian Genealogy you may find some clues - a blogpost gives some directions
http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/on-recent-trip-to-namibia-we-did-some.html
There are some newspaper indexes http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~jensj/Slekt/Luderitz/LuderitzbuchterZeitung/index.html
Found that on a not very active Rootsweb Namibia Mailing list
If you browse the FamilySearch South African records you may find some for Namibia
Regards
Gillian

[barryd]

Technically Namibia only after 21 March 1990. Formerly German South West Africa and South West Africa.



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[Ernest Floyd]

Thank you very much Gillian and Barry it's certainly a start.
Regards.
Ernest