Croatia Church Records

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Parish Registers

 * Roman Catholic parishes kept registers earlier than Orthodox parishes which were required to keep them only after 1777. Croats are almost exclusively Roman Catholic and Serbs are Orthodox.
 * Civil transcripts of registers were mandated during the 19th century.
 * A tabular format was adopted after 1848.
 * Older parish registers have been and continue to be transferred to the district historical archives or the Croatia State Archive.
 * The language of the records is either Latin, Croatian, Hungarian, or Italian. Glagolitic and Cyrillic as well as Roman script occur in the records.

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1) Various church books from the State Archive of Croatia 2) Orthodox church records of the Blaski diocese 3) Documents from district church archives throughout Croatia 4) Church records from the Archive of Osijek 5) Material from the Historical Archive of Varaždin 6) Catholic church books from the Historical Archives of Zadar and Split 7) Orthodox church books from the Historical Archives of Zadar and Split 8) Dubrovnik 9) Pazin 10) Rijeka

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 * ARHiNET Croatia 209 vital registers, presently from the Zagreb area only, expected to grow.