Croatia Church Records

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Parish Registers

 * Roman Catholic parishes kept registers earlier than Orthodox parishes which were required to keep them only after 1777. Croats are almost exclusively Roman Catholic and Serbs are Orthodox.
 * Civil transcripts of registers were mandated during the 19th century.
 * A tabular format was adopted after 1848.
 * Older parish registers have been and continue to be transferred to the district historical archives or the Croatia State Archive.
 * The language of the records is either Latin, Croatian, Hungarian, or Italian. Glagolitic and Cyrillic as well as Roman script occur in the records.

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 * Various church books from the Croatian State Archives
 * Orthodox church records of the Blaski eparchy (Blaski is not a geographic place, but the name of a patriarch. The eparchy covered all of the Orthodox parishes in Dalmatia)
 * Documents from district church archives throughout Croatia
 * Church records from the Osijek State Archives
 * Material from the Varaždin State Archives
 * Catholic church books from the Zadar and Split State Archives
 * Orthodox church books from the Zadar and Split State Archives
 * Church books from the Dubrovnik State Archives
 * Records from the Rijeka State Archives
 * Records from the Pazin State Archives

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 * ARHiNET Croatia 355 vital registers, mostly from the Zagreb area, expected to grow.