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 ==Historical Background==
 ===Civil Registration===
-*'''Civil registration''' records are '''government''' records of births, marriages, and deaths, as opposed to '''church records''', which were the most common records of those events for some centuries previous.
+*'''Civil registration''' records are '''government''' records of births, marriages, and deaths.
 *'''Dates:''' In Luxembourg, registering births, marriages, and deaths began in 1797.
-*'''Contents:''' For detailed descriptions of the information you might find in each record, see [[Luxembourg Civil Registration]]<br>
 *'''Language:''' French, German.
 -present. Official civil registration was introduced in the Grand Duchy by a French decree in 1797.  At that time the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was a part of France under the name of "Departement des Forêts."