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.

FamilySearch Microfilming

 * Various church books from the State Archive of Croatia
 * Orthodox church records of the Blaski diocese
 * Documents from district church archives throughout Croatia
 * Church records from the Archive of Osijek
 * Material from the Historical Archive of Varaždin
 * Catholic church books from the Historical Archives of Zadar and Split
 * Orthodox church books from the Historical Archives of Zadar and Split
 * Dubrovnik
 * Pazin
 * Rijeka

Web Sites

 * ARHiNET Croatia 209 vital registers, presently from the Zagreb area only, expected to grow.