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Reliability: Excellent.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Sri Lanka,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1990-2000.</ref> | Reliability: Excellent.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Sri Lanka,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1990-2000.</ref> | ||
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Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Research use: A primary source of vital information.
Record type: Births, marriages, deaths, for Europeans and Sri Lankans.
Time period: 1867 to present.
Contents: Births – names, date and place of birth, names of parents. Marriages – name of couple, their fathers' names, date and place of marriage, age of groom and bride and their birthplaces, names and residences of witnesses. Deaths – name of the deceased, date and place of death, age at time of death, marital status, cause of death, name of spouse.
Location: Registrar general and registration offices.
Population coverage: Approximately 40% in the early years, in later years the percentage estimated to be near 85%.
Reliability: Excellent.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Sri Lanka,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1990-2000.