Hungary, Civil Registration, 1895-1980

What is in This Collection?

This collection consists of vital records from Hungary for the years 1895-1980. The original records are maintained by each individual civil registration office (anyakönyvi hivatal); copies are made and submitted to the county archives. The copies in the county archives were microfilmed and subsequently digitized into the images in this collection.

Civil registration was instituted in Hungary on October 1, 1895 so that the government might have a record of vital events useful in compiling statistics about the people in Hungary. The records are bound volumes of pre-printed forms with event information recorded by hand. From 1895 through 1906, the forms are one page per event; beginning with 1907 each event occupies one row in a printed table, so there are multiple events recorded per page.

There are restrictions under Hungarian law which limits which records are available in this collection. Available records are: births 90 years old or older, marriages 60 years old or older, and deaths 30 years old or older.

The forms used for civil registration changed in 1907. Examples of pre-1907 civil registration can be seen at format can be see at Civil Registration Record Forms with Translations. For registration post-1907 see the Sample Images section of this article. Both formats have valuable English translation guides to the records. Additional information can be found at Hungary Civil Registration, Birth and Marriage Extracts (Family Search Historical Records).

Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.

Computer Aided Indexing (CAI)

Some or all of the indexed records for this collection were created using Computer Aided Indexing (CAI) from records digitized by FamilySearch or its partners. For more information on CAI see FamilySearch Computer Aided Indexing.

Reading These Records

These records are in Hungarian. For help reading them see Hungarian Genealogical Word List and Hungary Languages.

To Browse This Collection

What Can These Records Tell Me?

The following information may be found in these records:
Births

Marriages

Deaths

Collection Content

For additional details about these records and help using them see Hungary Civil Registration, Birth and Marriage Extracts (Family Search Historical Records).

Sample Images

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  1905 Birth Record

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  1934 Marriage Record

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  1916 Death Record

Inventory

For a list of all the civil registration districts included in this Historical Records publication see Hungary Civil Registration - Inventory.

Coverage Table

For a list of the localities, record types, and date ranges included in this collection, refer to Hungary Civil Registration - FamilySearch Historical Records Coverage Table.