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The records are available after 50 years from the date.  
The records are available after 50 years from the date.  


<br> '''Lysningsprotokoller 1923-1966'''<br>The third of the records, Banns Records (''Lysningsprotokoller''), were usually kept by the church, but in 1923, the responsibility for these records was handed over to the civil authorities when the new marriage laws were put into effect. By 1970, the law requiring banns before marriage was abolished, and the records stopped.<br>
<br> '''Lysningsprotokoller 1923-1966'''<br>The third of the records, Banns Records (''Lysningsprotokoller''), were usually kept by the church, but in 1923, the responsibility for these records was handed over to the civil authorities when the new marriage laws were put into effect. By 1970, the law requiring banns before marriage was abolished, and the records stopped.


For Banns records in Copenhagen, usually it is the bride who is resident in the city. There is an index to the records. The banns include information such as:<br>-Name of bride and groom<br>-Birth place and date<br>-Occupation<br>-Address<br>-Wedding parish and occupation at the time of marriage<br>  
The banns include information for al couples, no matter whether they were married in church or the marriage was a civil marriage (borgerlig vielse).<br>  


More recent banns records, that is 1967, 1968 and 1969, are available after 50 years from the date. The banns were abolished by law in 1969.<br>  
For Banns records in Copenhagen, usually it is the bride who is resident in the city. There is an index to the records. The banns include information such as:<br>-Name of bride and groom<br>-Birth place and date<br>-Occupation<br>-Address<br>-Wedding parish or, if the marriage was a civil marriage, place of the wedding (that is the municipality of Copenhagen)
 
-Ocupation at the time of marriage<br>
 
More recent banns records, that is 1967, 1968 and 1969, are available after 50 years from the date. <br>  


'''The Lysningsprotokoller 1923-1965 are online:'''
'''The Lysningsprotokoller 1923-1965 are online:'''
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