Switzerland Civil Registration: Difference between revisions

Civil registration is the government record of births, marriages, and deaths. These civil registers are kept by the Zivilstandesamt of each political community. Originally the Zivilstandesamt kept two separate sets of books: A-registers [records of births, marriages, and deaths occurring in the community] and B- registers [births, marriages, and deaths of community citizens that occurred outside the community]. In 1928, the B-registers were discontinued and replaced by Familienregister [family registers] kept by the civil registrar.