Jordan Civil Registration
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How to Find the Records
Online Collections
- 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 Archives in Amman and local government offices
Department of the National Library
Haroun Al Rasheed St 9
Amman, Jordan
Telephone: +962 6 566 2845
Address: Number 9 , Haroun Al-Rasheed St.
P.O.Box: (6070)
Zip code: (11118)
City: Amman
Telephone: 06-5662791
See
Address: Arjan - Building No. (9) - Harun Al-Rasheed Street - opposite the entrance to the Ministry of Interior
phone: 065662871-065662854-065662845
P.O. Box: 6070 Amman 11118
Fax: 065662867
e-mail : nl@nl.gov.jo
Personnel Email
hr@NL.GOV.JO
Email of the Public Relations Department PR@NL.GOV.JO
Historical Background
Coverage and Compliance
Time period: 1921-present. Early years only included Europeans. Registration of the general populous became compulsory in 1957.[1]
Population coverage: Before 1957, 5%; after 1957, as high as 80%.[1]
Information Recorded in the Records
Birth Records
- Child’s name
- Birth date and place
- Parents’ names, residence, and occupation
- Witnesses’ ages, relationships, residences[1]
Marriage Records
- Names of Bride and groom
- Ages
- Residences
- Occupations
- Marriage date and place
- Sometimes ages and/or birth dates and places
- Parents' names, residences, occupations
- Witnesses[1]
Death Records
- 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[1]
Marriage contracts
These records are the only source prior to civil registration of specific marriage information and provide a marriage date. They also provide relationships.
Legal contracts of marriage are the closest thing in Islamic society to marriage records. In Islamic tradition marriage is considered a legal contract between two families and is not considered a religious sacrament. Islamic law courts [sharia] handled the majority of litigation, particularly in the domain of personal and family status including marriage and divorce.
Time period: 1400-present.
Contents: Names of marriage candidates, dates of contract and marriage, parents (at least the father) of marital partners, details concerning dowry.
Location: At Islamic law court [sharia] archives in various cities.
Population coverage: As high as 75%; these records pertain to Muslim marriages only.[1]