Latvia Civil Registration
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Civil registration
Research use: Uniquely identify individuals and connects them to their parents.
Record type: Civil records of birth, marriage, and death.
General: The Soviets implemented civil registration in 1940. Metrical book transcripts served this purpose previously. Registration offices are co-located with "marriage palaces" permitting the registration and performance of weddings to occur at the same place and time.
Time period: 1940-present.
Contents: Birth, marriage, and death records have the exact date of the event, including time of day for births; names of principal and parents; occupation and religious preference of parents; name of informant for births and names of witnesses for marriages; place of residence for parents of newly born, of the groom and bride for marriages, and of the deceased for deaths; age at death, cause of death, and place of burial in death records.
Location: Civil Registry Archive in Riga.
Percentage in Family History Library: None.
Population coverage: 85% coverage.
Reliability: High.[1]
References
- ↑ The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Latvia,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1995-2002.
