Philippines Civil Registration: Difference between revisions

==Civil Registration (''Registros Civiles'')==

*The recording births, marriages and deaths, provides important information of events in a person's life and required valid evidence, making these records very important.  

*Most vital records from before 1889 come from Catholic parish and diocesan archives.  

*In 1889, the Spanish government created the Central Office of Statistics, which required each parish priest to  give the government a detailed list of the births, marriages, and deaths in his area.  

*After the Philippine Revolution of 1898, the church and state became separate. Within the first few years, officials responsible for civil registration were appointed in each municipality.  

*In 1930, civil registration became mandatory and, in 1932, the Bureau of Census and Statistics was created to oversee all civil registration in the Philippines. It was not until 1940 that most registrations began to be recorded.  

**Births:  Child’s name, birth date and place; parents’ names, residence, and occupation; witnesses’ ages, relationships, residences.   

**Marriages:  Bride and groom names, ages, residences, occupations, marriage date and place; sometimes ages and/or birth dates and places; parents' names;  residences, occupations; witnesses and officer who performed ceremony; former spouses.