Bosnia and Herzegovina Civil Registration

Introduction
Civil registration is the civil recording of birth, marriage, and death. Civil registration can be used to uniquely identify individuals and connect generations.

Ottoman population registers functioned in the role of civil registration until 1878, when Bosnia came under the control of Austro-Hungary. Civil registration began in 1946 and exists to the present.

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

How to Access the Records
Civil registration records are available at civil registration offices.