Bosnia and Herzegovina Civil Registration

Offices to Contact
Civil registration records are available at civil registration offices in the municipalities.

Historical Background
Ottoman population registers functioned in the role of civil registration until 1878, when Bosnia came under the control of Austro-Hungary.

Civil registration began in 1946 and exists to the present.

Birth records

 * Name
 * Date of birth (including time of day)
 * Names of parents
 * Residence of parents
 * Occupation of parents
 * Religious preference of parents
 * Name of informant.

Marriage records

 * Date of marriage
 * Names of bride and groom
 * Residences
 * Names of parents
 * Names of witnesses

Death records

 * Date of death
 * Name of deceased
 * Age
 * Cause of death
 * Place of burial