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 Nationwide civil registration began on 1 Jan 1876. Several cantons began keeping records earlier.
 *Pre-1876 civil registration records are also available for the following cantons:
-**Fribourg, beginning in 1849
+**Basel-Land: 1827
-**Genève: 1798
+**Fribourg: 1849
-**Neuchatel: 1825
+**Geneva: 1798
+**Glarus: 1849
+**Neuchâtel: 1825
+**St. Gallen: 1867
+**Schaffhausen: 1849
+**Solothurn: 1836
+**Ticino: 1855
 **Vaud: 1821
-**Valais: 1853.
+**Valais: 1853
-This volume consists of a separate page for each married couple and their children. Entries may include the couple’s parents’ names and notes about occupation, emigration, or other unusual circumstances.
-Bürgerbücher or Bürgerrodel [Citizens’ Books] were kept by some communities as early as the 1820s and contain about the same information as found in the modern Familienregister. In most cases these books have not been microfilmed. Requests for information concerning ancestral families may be obtained by writing to the appropriate Zivilstandesamt.
 == Type of Information Given in Civil Registration Records  ==