Bulgaria Civil Registration: Difference between revisions

Civil registration was instituted in 1893. Birth, marriage, and death records have the exact date of the event, including time of day for births; name of the principal and parents’ names; occupation and religious preference of parents; name of informant for births and witnesses for marriages; residence for parents of new born, of the groom and bride for marriages, and of the deceased for deaths; age at death, cause of death, and burial place in death records. Early civil registration was not very effective and there are many gaps in the records. In 1920, family registers were used for vital information. In 1945 was registration of births, marriages, and deaths became more efficient. The records are located at the district archives in each of the twenty eight districts of Bulgaria.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Bulgaria,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1991-1998.</ref>