North Macedonia Civil Registration

Offices to Contact
Republic of North Macedonia, Office for Management of Registers Bul. St. Cyril and Methodius 54 1000 Skopje, R. Macedonia Telephone:02 3223-787 E-mail: contact@uvmk.gov.mk Addresses of Regional Offices

Information Recorded in the Records
Birth records may list: name; date of birth (including time of day); parents; residence, occupation, and religious preference of parents; and informant. Marriage records may list: date of marriage, names of bride and groom, residences, parents, and witnesses. Death records may list: date of death, name, age, cause of death, and place of burial.

Introduction
Civil registration is the civil recording of births, marriages, and deaths. Civil registration can be used to uniquely identify individuals and connect generations.

Ottoman population registers functioned in the role of civil registration from 1831 to 1913, when Macedonia became part of Serbia. Only males were counted before 1881, but everyone was counted thereafter. These registers noted sex, birth date, residence, age, religion, craft or occupation, marital status, marriage date, health, and military status. Civil registration began in 1946.