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=== Regional Differences === | === Regional Differences === | ||
Between 1792 and 1798, when France occupied parts of Germany, the government began civil registration in parts of the Pfalz, Oldenburg, Hessen, and the Rhineland | Between 1792 and 1798, when France occupied parts of Germany, the government began civil registration in the parts of the following provnices that lay west of the Rhine: Pfalz, Oldenburg, Hessen, and the Rhineland. These records are usually written in French until about 1815. Hamburg began keeping civil registration records in 1799. As France's influence increased in Germany through the Confederation of the Rhein, the states of Braunschweig, Hannover, Westfalen, Bremen, Lippe, more of Hessen, the rest of Oldenburg and Lübeck established civil registration between 1808 and 1812. But when Napoleon's power began to fade in 1814, many of these states suspended civil registration. | ||
By 1838 most of the province of Waldeck was recording marriage contracts. The prime minister of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, instituted civil registration in all the provinces of Prussia in 1874. The remaining states—Anhalt, Bavaria, Lippe, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Schaumburg-Lippe, Thuringia, and Württemberg—began requiring civil registration in 1876. | By 1838 most of the province of Waldeck was recording marriage contracts. The prime minister of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, instituted civil registration in all the provinces of Prussia in 1874. The remaining states—Anhalt, Bavaria, Lippe, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Schaumburg-Lippe, Thuringia, and Württemberg—began requiring civil registration in 1876. | ||