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Civil Registration

Civil Registration (Zivilstandsregister)[edit | edit source]

Civil registration is births, marriages, marriage supplements, deaths, family registers kept by the government.

Time Coverage[edit | edit source]

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).

Information Content[edit | edit source]

Births=[edit | edit source]

Name of child
Date and place of birth;
Names, residence, and occupation of parents.

Marriages[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Names of marriage partners,
Documents showing proofs of births, deaths, prior marriages or divorces, proclamations, contracts, etc.

Death Registers[edit | edit source]

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.

Civil Registration (Standesamt-Register)[edit | edit source]

To obtain a certificate, you need to contact the registry office which registered the event. For Vienna only Municipal Department 35 provides the relevant service. To find an address for a local registry use the Austrian Government Help Portal.

References[edit | edit source]

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	~~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.~~

	To obtain a certificate, you need to contact the registry office which registered the event. For Vienna only [http://www.wien.gv.at/english/administration/civilstatus/index.html Municipal Department 35] provides the relevant service. To find an address for a local registry use the [https://www.help.gv.at/Portal.Node/hlpd/public/en Austrian Government Help Portal].		To obtain a certificate, you need to contact the registry office which registered the event. For Vienna only [http://www.wien.gv.at/english/administration/civilstatus/index.html Municipal Department 35] provides the relevant service. To find an address for a local registry use the [https://www.help.gv.at/Portal.Node/hlpd/public/en Austrian Government Help Portal].