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== Civil Registration - akty grazhdanskovo sostoianiye == | == Civil Registration - akty grazhdanskovo sostoianiye == | ||
Civil registration was instituted after the Revolution | Civil registration was instituted after the Russian Revolution. The acronym for the civil registration office was ZAGS, standing for acts of civil status. These were established in the cities by 1919, then later in rural localities. Gaps in registration persisted until 1926. ZAGS offices often gathered original metriki back to the beginning of the century into their collections to have an earlier record of vital events and to supplement the civil registration. These are normally the local copy of the parish register. Russian law requires that the vital records be transferred to regional archives 75 years after the date of creation. This has occurred in many instances but not always because of the limited space in the archives and bureaucratic inertia. | ||
Civil governments have created records of births, marriages, and deaths, commonly called ''vital records'' because they refer to critical events in a person’s life. In areas outside of North America, vital records created by the government are called ''civil registration''. Vital records are an excellent source of accurate names, dates, and places of births, marriages, and deaths. But the births, marriages, and deaths of many people were never recorded by civil authorities. Other vital records are described in “[[Russia Church Records|Church Records]]” and other sections. | Civil governments have created records of births, marriages, and deaths, commonly called ''vital records'' because they refer to critical events in a person’s life. In areas outside of North America, vital records created by the government are called ''civil registration''. Vital records are an excellent source of accurate names, dates, and places of births, marriages, and deaths. But the births, marriages, and deaths of many people were never recorded by civil authorities. Other vital records are described in “[[Russia Church Records|Church Records]]” and other sections. | ||