Venezuela Civil Registration

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Civil Registration

Civil Registration

• Civil registration records are government records covering birth, marriage, and death. They are an excellent source of names, dates, places, and relationships.
  
• Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths began in 1865.

How to Find the Records

Online Records

• Venezuela Civil Registration, 1873-2003, index and images for some states.
• More online records are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog. Search by town.

Offices to Contact

Civil registration records are kept at the local civil registration office in each municipality. You must determine the town where your ancestor lived before you can find the records. A civil registration district may include several towns or a small section of a large city. In addition to the town, you need to know an approximate year in which the birth, marriage, divorce, or death occurred. This method is not always reliable. Officials might or might not respond.

• For a listing of addresses for towns (municipios), see the page for your province.
• For towns not listed, use this address as a guide, replacing the information in parentheses:
  

Oficino del Registro Civil

(street name, number)

(city or town), (state)

(postal code)

Venezuela

• Find the Venezuela postal code here.
  

Write your request in Spanish whenever possible. Use the translated questions and phrases in this Spanish Letter-writing Guide to assist you in writing your letter in Spanish. Send the following when requesting information:

• Money for the search fee, usually $10.00
• Full name and the sex of the ancestor sought
• Names of the ancestor’s parents, if known
• Approximate date and place of the event
• Your relationship to the ancestor
• Reason for the request (family history, medical, and so on)
• Request for a photocopy of the complete original record
  

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