Russia Civil Registration: Difference between revisions

Civil registration was instituted after the Russian Revolution. The acronym for a civil registration office is ZAGS, standing for acts of civil status.

The ZAGS offices were established in the cities by 1919, then later in rural localities. Gaps in registration persisted until 1926. ZAGS offices often gathered original metriki back to the beginning of the century into their collections to have an earlier record of vital events and to supplement the civil registration. These are normally the local copy of the parish register.

Religious Records The czarist government issued a requirement in 1826 that rabbis, generally elected by a variety of Jewish communities, keep registration books of births, marriages, divorces and death. Russian Orthodox churches were under the same obligation.

Jews in Kovno and Vilna Guberniya were required to go to the synagogue to which they were assigned to register life events, and each year, the government authorities went to the synagogues to copy these registers. Today all vital records stored in archives are copies. The original records, kept in synagogues, were destroyed by 1942, primarily by the Germans.

Coverage and Compliance[edit | edit source]

Russian law requires that the vital records be transferred to regional archives 75 years after the date of creation. This has occurred in many instances but not always because of the limited space in the archives and bureaucratic inertia.

"Vital records... are available only for relatives of a died person...All registers before 1918 are open for everyone. The Unified state register of acts of civil status...began operations since October 1, 2018."^[1]

Information Recorded in the Records[edit | edit source]

Births

Name of the child
Gender
Date and place of birth and/or christening
Names of the parents

Marriages

Name
Birth Date
Age
Spouse's Name
Date
Place

Deaths

Name
Gender
Burial Date
Burial Place
Death Date
Age
Birth Date

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Wikipedia, Civil Registration - Russia, (accessed 9 February 2020).

[1] Wikipedia, Civil Registration - Russia, (accessed 9 February 2020).

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-Civil governments have created records of births, marriages, and deaths, commonly called ''vital records'' because they refer to critical events in a person’s life. In areas outside of North America, vital records created by the government are called ''civil registration''. Vital records are an excellent source of accurate names, dates, and places of births, marriages, and deaths. But the births, marriages, and deaths of many people were never recorded by civil authorities. Other vital records are described in “[[Russia Church Records|Church Records]]” and other sections.
+==How to Find the Records==
-== Civil Registration - akty grazhdanskovo sostoianiye  ==
+===Online Collections===
-Civil registration was instituted after the Russian Revolution. The acronym for the civil registration office was ZAGS, standing for acts of civil status. These were established in the cities by 1919, then later in rural localities. Gaps in registration persisted until 1926. ZAGS offices often gathered original metriki back to the beginning of the century into their collections to have an earlier record of vital events and to supplement the civil registration. These are normally the local copy of the parish register. Russian law requires that the vital records be transferred to regional archives 75 years after the date of creation. This has occurred in many instances but not always because of the limited space in the archives and bureaucratic inertia.
+*'''1755-1917''' {{RecordSearch|1771027|Russia Births and Baptisms, 1755-1917}} at FamilySearch — [[Russia Births and Baptisms - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index
+*'''1793-1919''' {{RecordSearch|1771044|Russia Marriages, 1793-1919}} at FamilySearch — [[Russia Marriages - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index
+*'''1815-1917''' {{RecordSearch|1771042|Russia Deaths and Burials, 1815-1917}} at FamilySearch — [[Russia Deaths and Burials - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index
+===Offices to Contact===
+Civil registration records are kept by civil registration offices in regions. There is no central office.
+*[http://mxkr.ru/en/registry-offices List of Russian Civil Registration Offices]. Click on the map for telephone numbers, fax numbers and addresses (in Russian).
+==Historical Background==
+Civil registration was instituted after the Russian Revolution. The acronym for a civil registration office is ZAGS, standing for acts of civil status.
+The ZAGS offices were established in the cities by 1919, then later in rural localities. Gaps in registration persisted until 1926. ZAGS offices often gathered original metriki back to the beginning of the century into their collections to have an earlier record of vital events and to supplement the civil registration. These are normally the local copy of the parish register.
+'''Religious Records'''
 The czarist government issued a requirement in 1826 that rabbis, generally elected by a variety of Jewish communities, keep registration books of births, marriages, divorces and death. Russian Orthodox churches were under the same obligation.
-Jews in Kovno and Vilna Guberniya were required to go to the synagogue to which they were assigned to register life cycle events, and each year, the government authorities went to the synagogues to copy these registers. The records were written in Russian (Cyrillic.) Some, but not all records were then duplicated in Hebrew or Yiddish. Today, all vital records stored in archives today are copies. The original records, kept in synagogues were destroyed by 1942, primarily by the Germans.
+Jews in Kovno and Vilna Guberniya were required to go to the synagogue to which they were assigned to register life events, and each year, the government authorities went to the synagogues to copy these registers. Today all vital records stored in archives are copies. The original records, kept in synagogues, were destroyed by 1942, primarily by the Germans.
+==Coverage and Compliance==
+Russian law requires that the vital records be transferred to regional archives 75 years after the date of creation. This has occurred in many instances but not always because of the limited space in the archives and bureaucratic inertia.
+"Vital records... are available only for relatives of a died person...All registers before 1918 are open for everyone. The Unified state register of acts of civil status...began operations since October 1, 2018."<ref>Wikipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_registration#Russia Civil Registration - Russia], (accessed 9 February 2020).</ref>
-<br>
+==Information Recorded in the Records==
-'''Website: List of Russian Civil Registration Offices '''
+'''Births'''
-*http://mxkr.ru/en/registry-offices
+*Name of the child
+*Gender
+*Date and place of birth and/or christening
+*Names of the parents
+'''Marriages'''
+*Name
+*Birth Date
+*Age
+*Spouse's Name
+*Date
+*Place
-'''Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:'''
+'''Deaths'''
-*[[Russia Births and Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia Births and Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
+*Name
-*[[Russia Deaths and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia Death and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
+*Gender
-*[[Russia Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]]
+*Burial Date
+*Burial Place
+*Death Date
+*Age
+*Birth Date
-[[Category:Russia Vital Records]]
+==References==
+[[Category:Russia Vital Records]]
-{{H-langs|en=Russia Civil Registration|ru= Россия Гражданская pегистрация}}
+[[ru: Россия Гражданская pегистрация]]