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Can anyone offer any clarification on some of the detail in the Vital Records of Papua New Guinea?

Sooz
Sooz ✭
April 21, 2023 edited July 27, 2024 in Search

I'm looking at a Birth Registration entry for 1981, of a birth which took place in 1977. AT the bottom of the entry, under "Notations" is the comment - "Re-registered under Part VIII" can anyone explain what this refers to please? I'm confused because, taken with a separate entry in an entirely different name (& sex) the entry appears to imply that the parents had 2 children born 5 months apart in the same year!

I'm unclear whether or not I'm meant to attach images or links to the records here, sorry.

Sue

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    April 21, 2023

    The URL/link to the record would be very helpful and most definitely allowed, even encouraged. It's much easier to answer a question when we can see the record in question.

    There's a reference to birth registration or re-registration under Part VIII in the Civil Registration Act 1963 http://www.paclii.org/pg/legis/consol_act/cra1963214/

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  • Sooz
    Sooz ✭
    April 21, 2023

    Here is the link to the record - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9NP-H96M?cc=2114430&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A6ZCK-S9NS

    Here is the other child's registration - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89N9-58KF?cc=2114430&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A6ZDK-9R46

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    April 21, 2023

    The document that Áine linked says Part VIII of the law is "Registration of Adoptions".

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  • Sooz
    Sooz ✭
    April 22, 2023

    Thank you Áine & Julia. So am I correct to interpret the first document as showing that Elsie, born in 1977, was adopted in 1981 by John & Susan? If so, since the second document shows a registration for their child, William, 5 months after Elsie was born, it would seem that Susan was not Elsie's child. Is there any way to discover whether or not John was her birth father, or who her birth parents were?

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