Slovenia Population

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Registration forms for the population started after 1850, when modern municipal administration began to develop. All the inhabitants of a particular municipality or town had to be reported, or registered, at a specific municipal office. Also recorded were any changes of residence, even if the people concerned remained in the same municipality.

A registration form was filled out for each family in a particular municipality. It consisted of the headings:


 * name and surname
 * religion
 * status
 * profession or the work that someone performed
 * place and date of birth
 * right of domicile and statement of the document which proves their domicile

These headings are followed by notes of all changes of residence. Two series of the described registration forms are preserved in the unit of the Municipal Archive Ljubljana: an older one which covers the Austrian state, and a later one from the time of old Yugoslavia.

These forms were not kept after the Second World War (from 1945).

They are classified alphabetically by surname and name of heads of families.

Population registration forms are more useful for genealogical research than census forms, since they show the continuity of development of a particular family and contain more data about family members.

The entries include the name of the head of household, followed by the name of wife, children and other relatives with whom the family shared the residence, date of registration with the police, number of the house and district (see below for the list of Prague districts), and job of the head of household. It may include year and place of birth, religion and, in case of a married woman, her maiden name.