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Research use: These registers establish family groups and individual identity. | Research use: These registers establish family groups and individual identity. | ||
Record type: The earliest census reports from Turkey date from 1831. | Record type: The earliest census reports from Turkey date from 1831.<ref>Military head tax registers (a quasi census) date from 1551.</ref> But these generally count number of households or even of persons, but they recorded few names. The census laws of 1875 and 1884 established a system of civil registration, with the population registers kept at the local district [kaza] level, to update the census by adding new information about births, marriages, and deaths. Permanent registers were compiled in an initial census survey; thereafter vital information was added as births, marriages, and deaths occurred. Initial census surveys were conducted throughout the empire in 1876-1878, 1882-1885, and again in 1903-1906. NOTE: The first survey is incomplete because of the Ottoman-Russian War. Supplemental registration of births, marriages, divorces, and deaths were sometimes added to the register itself or sometimes compiled in separate registers. | ||
Time period: 1876 to the end of Ottoman rule, probably 1915. | Time period: 1876 to the end of Ottoman rule, probably 1915. | ||