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===Offices to Contact=== | ===Offices to Contact=== | ||
Location: Civil registration offices exist at the local and regional levels. Copies of local registrations are sent to regional offices. | |||
==Historical Background== | |||
General: The Bureau of Civil Status Acts (ZAGS) creates and maintains civil registration. The bureau is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and is separate from the national archive system. Registration of births must be done within two months of birth and deaths within three days. Registration offices are collocated with "marriage palaces" permitting the registration and performance of weddings to occur at the same place and time.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Moldova,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2002.</ref> | |||
Registration of births must be done within two months of birth and deaths within three days. | |||
Registration offices are | |||
Time period: 1920-present. | Time period: 1920-present. | ||
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==Coverage and Compliance== | ==Coverage and Compliance== | ||
Population coverage: Low for the first decade of registration, then 85% thereafter. The civil war of the early Soviet period inhibited registration. For two years it was not enforced. The system was established first in urban and later in rural areas. Gaps persisted through 1926. Civil registration broke down in the occupied areas during World War II and some registers were burned.<ref name="profile"></ref> | |||
==Information Recorded in the Records== | ==Information Recorded in the Records== | ||
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===Birth Records=== | ===Birth Records=== | ||
Birth, marriage, and death records have the exact date of the event, including time of day for births; names of principal and parents; occupation and religious preference of parents; name of informant for births and names of witnesses for marriages; place of residence for parents of newly born, of the groom and bride for marriages, and of the deceased for deaths; age at death, cause of death, and place of burial in death records.<ref name="profile"></ref> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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How to Find the Records[edit | edit source]
Offices to Contact[edit | edit source]
Location: Civil registration offices exist at the local and regional levels. Copies of local registrations are sent to regional offices.
Historical Background[edit | edit source]
General: The Bureau of Civil Status Acts (ZAGS) creates and maintains civil registration. The bureau is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and is separate from the national archive system. Registration of births must be done within two months of birth and deaths within three days. Registration offices are collocated with "marriage palaces" permitting the registration and performance of weddings to occur at the same place and time.[1]
Time period: 1920-present.
Coverage and Compliance[edit | edit source]
Population coverage: Low for the first decade of registration, then 85% thereafter. The civil war of the early Soviet period inhibited registration. For two years it was not enforced. The system was established first in urban and later in rural areas. Gaps persisted through 1926. Civil registration broke down in the occupied areas during World War II and some registers were burned.[1]
Information Recorded in the Records[edit | edit source]
Birth Records[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriage, and death records have the exact date of the event, including time of day for births; names of principal and parents; occupation and religious preference of parents; name of informant for births and names of witnesses for marriages; place of residence for parents of newly born, of the groom and bride for marriages, and of the deceased for deaths; age at death, cause of death, and place of burial in death records.[1]