I'm an American and I need my mother's birth certificate because of a legal proceeding that I'm involved with. My mother was born in Namibia... technically born in South West Africa in 1960. I've never met her and know nothing about her except her name, place and year of birth and her parents names all found on my parent's marriage certificate. How can I find her birth certificate? The procedure via the embassy seems hopeless...they never respond to emails or answer the phone. Getting one directly with home affairs seems impossible because it seems my mother would have to do it and with her Namibian ID. I don't even know if she's alive. Could I go to the local town's/municipal civil registry office and get a copy of the original birth cert? My lawyer found a copy of her baptism online...maybe I could use that along with my parents marriage cert and my own birth certificate and they can use that information to find it? Or are all records centralized in Windhoek with home affairs? I am willing to travel to Namibia.   submitted by   /u/locomotive_Bread604 [link]   [comments]