Civil Registration
Find and view South African civil death registration documents on the FamilySearch project. Choose a town, then a year, to see the record batches you can open.
4 batches.
Johannesburg · 1940 · Batch 1–100
Johannesburg · 1940 · Batch 100–3100
Johannesburg · 1940 · Batch 3100–6280
Johannesburg · 1940 · Batch 6280–9317
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