Czechia Civil Registration: Difference between revisions

Civil Registration refers to records of births, marriages, and deaths maintained by civil authorities. during the time of Austrian rule there were a few civil registers started in 1870 to record those of dissident faiths or to record the baptisms of children of mixed marriages but these are still categorized as church registers. Another law in 1885 allowed for the recording of mixed marriages and children of mixed marriages to be recorded in quasi civil registers by local civil officials. In 1921 registration by civil authorities was enacted into law throughout the new Czechoslovak Republic.