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Is sponsor on the birth certificate denotes the names of the parents?

Emmanuel Osei1
Emmanuel Osei1 ✭
September 8, 2023 edited September 30, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

I am indexing some documents from Zimbabwe, it requires names of parents, but on the document, there is no names of such only sponsor names are available, Is it the same as that of the parents

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
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    September 8, 2023 Answer ✓

    And, further, those Zimbabwe records are not birth records but baptisms, since the project is Zimbabwe, Bulawayo—Church Records.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
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    September 8, 2023

    No, sponsor = godparent. It is specifically not a parent.

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