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==Definition== | ==Definition== | ||
*Civil registration is the vital records (records of births, marriages, and deaths) made by the government. Civil registration records (zapisy cywilne) are an excellent source for information on names, dates, and places of births, marriages, and deaths. These records are kept at the civil registration office, called '''urząd stanu cywilnego''', abbreviated as '''USC'''.<br> | *Civil registration is the vital records (records of births, marriages, and deaths) made by the government. Civil registration records (zapisy cywilne) are an excellent source for information on names, dates, and places of births, marriages, and deaths. These records are kept at the civil registration office, called '''urząd stanu cywilnego''', abbreviated as '''USC'''.<br> | ||
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Modern civil registration records are still kept at the gmina (community) level. Records older than 100 years are supposed to be transferred from the USC office to the state archives. Poland's privacy laws restrict access to births up to 100 years, and marriages and deaths up to 80 years. Books are not transferred until every record in the volume is publicly available (eg. a birth book covering 1910-1925 will be eligible for transfer in 2026). | Modern civil registration records are still kept at the gmina (community) level. Records older than 100 years are supposed to be transferred from the USC office to the state archives. Poland's privacy laws restrict access to births up to 100 years, and marriages and deaths up to 80 years. Books are not transferred until every record in the volume is publicly available (eg. a birth book covering 1910-1925 will be eligible for transfer in 2026). | ||
====To find the address of the civil registration office: | |||
===To find the town for the civil registration office:=== | |||
*Use [https://mapa.szukacz.pl/ '''mapa.szukacz'''] to find the province, area, commune, and postal code of the town. Enter the town name in the "place" field in the right sidebar and click "Show". All information will appear at the bottom of the right sidebar. <br> | |||
*If the town was in the area of Poland once controlled by Russia or Austria, look it up in [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=12786&from=publication '''Skorowidz Gazetteer Online'''] to find the parishes of various religions. Here are the [[Media:1-Skorowidz_Online-Instruction.pdf|'''instructions'''.]] Use the second option, "Viewing anywhere via the Digital Library of Wielkopolska".<br> | |||
===To find the address of the civil registration office:=== | |||
Addresses and contact information for Polish Civil Registry Offices can be found [https://archiwum.mswia.gov.pl/pl/form/148,Adresy-USC-w-Polsce-Addresses-of-Civil-Registry-Offices.html '''here''']. | Addresses and contact information for Polish Civil Registry Offices can be found [https://archiwum.mswia.gov.pl/pl/form/148,Adresy-USC-w-Polsce-Addresses-of-Civil-Registry-Offices.html '''here''']. | ||
Enter the name of the '''commune''' or filter by the województwo and powiat to see a list of all the civil registry offices in the area. | Enter the name of the '''commune''' or filter by the województwo and powiat to see a list of all the civil registry offices in the area. | ||
Note: You '''must''' include diacritical marks to find all results (e.g. a search for "Lodz" will return no results, while a search for "Łódź" returns several results). To insert Polish diacritical marks, you can copy/paste the name or use the website [https://polish.typeit.org/ typeit.org] to insert the special Polish letters. | |||
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[[Category:Poland Civil Registration]] | [[Category:Poland Civil Registration]] | ||
[[Category:Civil Registration]] | [[Category:Civil Registration]] | ||
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