Malaysia Civil Registration

Online Collections

 * 1628-1969: UK, Foreign & Overseas Registers of British Subjects, Malaysia at Ancestry; index & images ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials at FindMyPast; index & images ($)

Offices to Contact
National Registration Department and branches. The National Registration Department has branches in each state and federal territory. Click here to find the location of the branches.

Ibu Pejabat Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara Putrajaya (Putrajaya National Registration Department Headquarters) No 20, Persiaran Perdana, Presint 2 Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan (Federal Government Administrative Centre) 62551 Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya Telephone: 03-8000 8000 Fax: 03-8880 8288 Email:(@jpn.gov.my): pro

Click on the following records to read more about how to search and extract the records:


 * Birth registration
 * Identity card
 * Adoption
 * Marriage
 * Death
 * Citizenship

Coverage and Compliance
Time period: 1859-present.

In 1961 registration became compulsory for all except Muslims, who were governed by the Muslim Ordinance of 1957.

Population coverage: Before 1980, 10%; after 1980, 80%.

Information Recorded in the Records
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 and officer who performed ceremony; former spouses.

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.