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The Registrar General^[1]
General Register Office
GPO Building
Robb Street
Georgetown, Guyana

Telephone: +592 225 7561

+592 226 4575

Fax: +592 227 6861

Government registration of vital events began as early as 1869. Records are available from the years listed below.^[2]

Births 1869

Marriages 1903

Deaths 1869

↑ Guyana High Commission, Birth, Death, Marriage & Adoption Certificates, (accessed 22 December 2020).
↑ Titford, John. My ancestor settled in the British West Indies: (with Bermuda, British Guiana and British Honduras). London: Society of Genealogists Enterprises. 2011. pp 87-98