How does one go about getting your great-grandmothers birth certificate?

[Selenity]

I have recently found my great-grandmother's baptism record and would really love to get her birth certificate, but I have no idea how to go about it. Any advice would be wonderful.

[Pheno]

Can you give us baptism year and at least country of birth if no county.

Phenooooo

[Selenity]

The date of baptism is 9 September 1914 in Mafeking which was part of Bechunaland Protectorate during those years if I am correct

[KGarrad]

What was Bechuanaland is now Botswana.

[goldie61]

I have recently found my great-grandmother's baptism record and would really love to get her birth certificate, but I have no idea how to go about it. Any advice would be wonderful.

Where did you find the record? That may give a clue as to where it is held.

[Selenity]

I found the record on familysearch.org they say it is in the "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives)". All I want to know is do they keep birth certificates too or do you have to go to the embassy or home affairs to ask for the birth certificate? I do not know where to start to get ahold of the birth certificate.

[Rena]

The images of the records are on the familysearch website, you will have to trawl through the images and download the page you want.  :-

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1478678

[Selenity]

The images of the records are on the familysearch website, you will have to trawl through the images and download the page you want.  :-

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1478678

Thank you, but those are the ones I already have. I am looking for her birth certificate since I already have those baptism records.

[Rena]

The birth certificates available from the GRO do not give the witness names/signatures.

Usually the town where a person was born has a webpage giving instruction on how to obtain birth records.

For instance my home town has a page with lists of births but when I wanted a b irth c ert from another town I had to fill in blank spaces on a web page.