Georgia (country) Civil Registration

Georgia

Civil registers
Research use: Uniquely identifies individuals based on their vital data and connects them to their parents.

Record type: Civil records of birth, marriage, and death.

General: Registration was instituted by the communist regime after World War I.

Time period: 1921-present.

Contents: Birth, marriage, and death records have the exact date of the event, including time of day for births; name of principal and parents; occupation and religious preference of parents; name of informant for births and names of witnesses for marriages; place of residence for parents of new born, of the groom and bride for marriages, and of the deceased for deaths; age at death, cause of death, and place of burial in death records.

Location: Records through 1927 in the National Archive in Tbilisi. Later records in the civil registry offices.

Population coverage: 85% coverage of the population.

Reliability: High.