Malaysia Civil Registration

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Civil Registration

How to Find the Records

Online Collections

• 1628-1969: UK, Foreign & Overseas Registers of British Subjects, Malaysia at Ancestry; index & images ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials at FindMyPast; index & images ($)

Offices to Contact

National Registration Department and branches.
The National Registration Department has branches in each state and federal territory. Click here to find the location of the branches.

Ibu Pejabat Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara Putrajaya (Putrajaya National Registration Department Headquarters)
No 20, Persiaran Perdana, Presint 2
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan (Federal Government Administrative Centre)
62551 Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya

Telephone: 03-8000 8000
Fax: 03-8880 8288
Email: pro@jpn.gov.my

Click on the following records to read more about how to search and extract the records:

• Birth registration
• Identity card
• Adoption
• Marriage
• Death
• Citizenship

Marriage and Divorce Division General Inquiry
Births, Deaths & Adoptions Division

Coverage and Compliance

Time period: 1859-present.

In 1961 registration became compulsory for all except Muslims, who were governed by the Muslim Ordinance of 1957.

Population coverage: Before 1980, 10%; after 1980, 80%.

Information Recorded in the Records

Birth Records

• Child’s name
• Birth date and place
• Parents’ names, residence, and occupation
• Witnesses’ ages, relationships, residences

Marriages Records

• Bride and groom names
• Ages
• Residences
• Occupations
• Marriage date and place
• Witnesses
• Officer who performed ceremony
• Sometimes ages and/or birth dates and places; parents' names; residences, occupations
• Sometimes former spouses

Death Registers

• Name of deceased
• Age
• Death date and place
• Occupation
• Name of surviving spouse
• Informant’s name and residence
• Cause of death
• Sometimes birth date and place, parents’ names, children’s names

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