Philippines, Civil Registration (Local), 1888-1986
Local copies of marriage and death certificates. This collection comprises marriage and death certificates from local civil registry offices throughout the Philippines. Records are not available for all localities and the coverage varies by locality. For local civil registration records for Metropolitan Manila, please see the collection "Philippines, Manila Civil Registration (Local), 1899-1984."
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Philippines, Civil Registration (Local)
What is in This Collection?
This collection consists of governmental vital records from across the Philippines for the years 1888-1984. The originals are housed at the Bureau of Records Management in Manila. Additional records will be added to this collection as they become available.
Browse the collection in FamilySearch to determine current coverage. For local civil registration records for Metropolitan Manila, please see the collection Philippines, Manila Civil Registration - FamilySearch Historical Records. Records are not available for all localities; the coverage varies by city/locality.
Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.
Reading These Records
These records are in Spanish and English. For help reading them see:
To Browse This Collection
| You can browse through images in this collection using the waypoints on the Collection Browse Page for Philippines Civil Registration (Local), 1888-1984. |
What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:
Birth
- City and province of birth
- Name, gender, nationality and race of child
- Birth date
- Parents’ names
- Occupation of father
- Parent’s residence, including street address, city and province
- Age of parents at child’s birth
- Birthplace of parents
- Nationality, race and religion of parents
- Number of previous births to the mother
- Legitimacy of birth
- Date of parent’s marriage
Marriage
- Date and place of marriage
- Name and age of bride and groom
- Bride and groom's nationality, residence and marital status
- Name of groom's father and his nationality
- Name of bride’s father and his nationality
- Name of bride's father and his nationality
- Maiden name of bride's mother and her nationality
- Names of the witnesses and their residence
- Names of the persons who gave consent to the marriage
- Name and title of person who solemnized marriage
- Beginning in 1945, birthplace of bride and groom are given
Death
- Place where death occurred
- Name of medical institution if death occurred there
- Name and gender of deceased (Sometimes the death record for a woman will be filed under her married name and not her maiden name)
- Age given in years, months, days and hours
- Date of death
- Cause of death
- Birthplace and occupation of deceased
- Name of surviving spouse, if married
- In what country did deceased have citizenship
- Parent’s names, including mother’s maiden name
- Name of informant and their relationship to deceased
- Name of attending physician
- Burial information
Collection Content
Sample Images
1888 Birth Record
1942 Marriage Record
1965 Death Certificate
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Collection Details
Language
Spanish and English
Location of Original Records
National Statistics Office of the Philippines
"Philippines, Civil Registration (Local), 1888-1986." Database with images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 30 April 2026. National Census and Statistics Office, Manila.
