Romania Civil Registration

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Civil Registration

How to Find the Records

Online Collections

• World Miscellaneous Births, Marriages, Deaths - My Heritage ($)
• Romania, Vital Records from Selected Regions, 1607-1914, ($). Index. Incomplete.
  
• Historical Population Database of Transylvania
  
• Virtual Genealogical Archive Bucharest and Brasov
  
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, index and images, ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages,, index and images, ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images, ($)

Offices to Contact

Existing civil registration records of Romania are located in local offices of civil registration (Oficiile stării civile) in each city or town, who maintain records for the past one hundred years.

Older records are sent to the National Archives of Romania (Arhivele Naționale ale României) or one of its regional archives. Records are kept under good storage conditions.

Arhivele Naţionale ale României (The National Archives of Romania)
Bd. Regina Elisabeta nr. 49, sector 5
Bucureşti
050013
Romania

Telephone: 021 / 314 43 31

021 / 313 92 95

Fax: 021/312 58 41

021/313 18 38

021/313 18 38

Email: secretariat@arhivelenationale.ro

Forty-two regional branches operate, one in each county of Romania and another one in Bucharest (holding documents pertaining specifically to the city)."

• Information on locations of records
• Historical Population database of Transylvania

No civil registration records are available through the Family History Library at this time.

Online Research, National Archives of Romania

Historical Background

Records of births, marriages and deaths created and maintained by civil government are called civil registration (starea civilă). Civil registration began as early as 1865 in some regions in Romania. These records are an extremely reliable and valuable source for studying and linking families and relationships; they are the most important genealogical source from 1865 to the present.

• Catalogul registrelor parohiale de stare civilă și al registrelor de stare civilă municipale din Transilvania accesibile la filialele județene ale arhivelor Naționale ale României, destinat utilizatorilor (Catalog of parish registers of civil status and municipal civil status registers in Transylvania, accessible at the county branches of the National Archives of Romania), Historical Population Database of Transylvania, 2017. No names of people.

Coverage and Compliance

National civil registration was introduced into Romania (Wallachia and Moldavia) by official decree in 1865. The Hungarian provinces of Transylvania and Banat began in 1895. In Bukovina, Bessarabia and Dobrogea civil registration was not introduced until 1919. Local civil registries were begun earlier on a city by city basis, the earliest dating back to 1607 in Sibiu. Records less than 100 years old can only be accessed by direct descendants in accordance with privacy laws of the European Union. Birth registration is available until 1930, marriage registration is available until 1950, and death registration is available to the present. 85-95% of the population can be found in these records.

Information Recorded in the Records

Birth Records

• Name of child
• Date of birth
• Names and ages of parents

Marriage records

• Names of bride and groom
• Date and place of marriage
• Birth dates or ages and birthplaces of bride and groom
• Names of parents

Death records

• Name of deceased
• Place of death
• Date of death
• Age
• Birthplace
• Parents' names

Divorce records

• Names of parties
• Date of final decrees

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