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The most important civil records for genealogical research are birth, marriage, and death registers. Contemporary civil registration records usually contain the following information.'''<br> | The most important civil records for genealogical research are birth, marriage, and death registers. Contemporary civil registration records usually contain the following information.'''<br> | ||
==== Births ==== | ==== Births ==== | ||
Birth records generally give the child’s name; date the birth was reported; place of birth; hour, date, and day of the week of birth; date, place, and parish of baptism; the father’s name, occupation, religion, citizenship, and residence; the mother’s name; and the godparents’ names. | Birth records generally give the child’s name; date the birth was reported; place of birth; hour, date, and day of the week of birth; date, place, and parish of baptism; the father’s name, occupation, religion, citizenship, and residence; the mother’s name; and the godparents’ names. | ||
*[[Media:Birth Certificate Greece 1.pdf|'''Click here'''] to see a visual example of a birth certificate and its translation. | |||
==== Marriages ==== | ==== Marriages ==== | ||
Civil officials recorded the marriages in registers, usually preprinted forms bound in a book and kept in the civil office. Marriage registers give the date of the marriage, the names of the bride and groom, their ages, their places of birth, their residences, their occupations, their citizenship, their religion, whether this is their first or a subsequent marriage, and their parents’ names. | Civil officials recorded the marriages in registers, usually preprinted forms bound in a book and kept in the civil office. Marriage registers give the date of the marriage, the names of the bride and groom, their ages, their places of birth, their residences, their occupations, their citizenship, their religion, whether this is their first or a subsequent marriage, and their parents’ names. | ||