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-=== Civil Registration (Zivilstandsregister) ===
+== Civil Registration (Zivilstandsregister) ==
+Civil registration is births, marriages, marriage supplements, deaths, family registers kept by the government.
+==Time Coverage==
+*1867-1938 (a few areas only, 5%)
+*Births and deaths began throughout on 1 January 1939. Civil registration of marriages started on 1 August 1938; however, marriages celebrated between 1 August 1938 and 31 December 1938 were conducted at regional district offices ''(Bezirkshauptmannschaften)''.
-Research use: Information can be used to compile pedigrees and family groups.  Identifies parents, children and spouses and dates and places of vital events.  Other relatives are often identified.
+==Information Content==
+===Births====
+*Name of child
+*Date and place of birth;
+*Names, residence, and occupation of parents.
+===Marriages===
+*Names
+*Ages
+*Residences
+*Occupations of groom and bride;
+*Sometimes date and place of birth and/or ages,
+*Parents' names,
+*Date and place of marriage,
+*Residences, occupations, names of witnesses and officer who performed ceremony.
+===Marriage Supplements===
+*Names of marriage partners,
+*Documents showing proofs of births, deaths, prior marriages or divorces, proclamations, contracts, etc.
+===Death Registers===
+*Name,
+*Date and place of death
+*Occupation,
+*Name of surviving spouse,
+*Name and residence of informant,
+*Cause of death,
+*Sometimes date and place of birth, names of parents, names of children.
-Record type:  Births, marriages, marriage supplements, deaths, family registers.
-Time period:  1867-1938 (a few areas only); 1938-present for all of modern Austria.
-Contents:  Births:  Name of child, date and place of birth; names, residence, and occupation of parents.  Marriages;  Names, ages, residences, occupations of groom and bride; sometimes date and place of birth and/or ages, parents' names, date and place of marriage, residences, occupations, names of witnesses and officer who performed ceremony.  Marriage supplements:  Names of marriage partners, documents showing proofs of births, deaths, prior marriages or divorces, proclamations, contracts, etc.  Death registers:  Name, age, date and place of death, occupation, name of surviving spouse, name and residence of informant, cause of death, sometimes date and place of birth, names of parents, names of children.
-Location:  Civil registrars’ offices in towns and cities; some in regional archives.
-Population coverage:  Before 1938, 5%; after 1938, 95%.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Austria,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.</ref>
 === Civil Registration (Standesamt-Register)===
-Births and deaths began throughout [[Austria Genealogy|Austria]] on 1 January 1939. Civil registration of marriages started on 1 August 1938; however, marriages celebrated between 1 August 1938 and 31 December 1938 were conducted at regional district offices ''(Bezirkshauptmannschaften)''.
 Civil registration began in Hungary in 1895 and those parts of the modern federal province of [[Burgenland]] which were then part of Hungary will have civil registration records.