Vietnam Civil Registration

Asia Vietnam

Civil Registration
Research use: Information can be used to compile pedigrees and family groups. Identifies parents, children and spouses and dates and places of vital events. Other relatives are often identified.

Record type: Births, marriages, divorces, deaths.

Time period: 1858-present. Contents: Births:  Child’s name, birth date and place; parents’ names, residence, and occupation; witnesses’ ages, relationships, residences. Marriages: Bride and groom names, ages, residences, occupations, marriage date and place; sometimes ages and/or birth dates and places; parents' names; residences, occupations; witnesses; former spouses. Divorces: Often listed on the back of the marriage register. Includes names, ages, dates and places, occupations, residences. Death registers: 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. Location: National Civil Registration Office, local police registry offices.

Population coverage: Possibly 20%.

Reliability: Excellent.

Location
Vietnam has no central repository for birth, marriage, and death certificates. Persons desiring this information need to contact the city or province to determine what is available.

The following listing, provided by Wikipedia, provides province names and locations as a starting point:

Red River Delta

 * Bắc Ninh
 * Hà Nam
 * Hải Dương
 * Hưng Yên
 * Nam Định
 * Ninh Bình
 * Thái Bình
 * Vĩnh Phúc
 * Hanoi (municipality)
 * Hai Phong (municipality)

Northeast

 * Bắc Giang
 * Bắc Kạn
 * Cao Bằng
 * Hà Giang
 * Lạng Sơn
 * Lào Cai
 * Phú Thọ
 * Quảng Ninh
 * Thái Nguyên
 * Tuyên Quang
 * Yên Bái

Northwest

 * Điện Biên
 * Hòa Bình
 * Lai Châu
 * Sơn La

North Central Coast

 * Hà Tĩnh
 * Nghệ An
 * Quảng Bình
 * Quảng Trị
 * Thanh Hóa
 * Thừa Thiên–Huế

Central Highlands

 * Đắk Lắk
 * Đắk Nông
 * Gia Lai
 * Kon Tum
 * Lâm Đồng

South Central Coast

 * Bình Định
 * Bình Thuận
 * Khánh Hòa
 * Ninh Thuận
 * Phú Yên
 * Quảng Nam
 * Quảng Ngãi
 * Da Nang (municipality)

Southeast

 * Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu
 * Bình Dương
 * Bình Phước
 * Đồng Nai
 * Tây Ninh
 * Ho Chi Minh City (municipality)

Mekong Delta

 * An Giang
 * Bạc Liêu
 * Bến Tre
 * Cà Mau
 * Đồng Tháp
 * Hậu Giang
 * Kiên Giang
 * Long An
 * Sóc Trăng
 * Tiền Giang
 * Trà Vinh
 * Vĩnh Long
 * Cần Thơ (municipality)

The provinces are subdivided into provincial municipalities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), townships (thị xã) and counties (huyện), which are in turn subdivided into towns (thị trấn) or communes (xã). The centrally controlled municipalities are subdivided into districts (quận) and counties, which are further subdivided into wards (phường).

Municipalities

 * Can Tho
 * Da Nang
 * Hai Phong
 * Ha Noi
 * Ho Chi Minh