Vital records
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Mary Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) birth certificate

Austrian marriage license (duplicate) from 1854

Vital records are records of life events kept under governmental authority, including birth certificates, marriage licenses, and death certificates. In some jurisdictions, vital records may also include records of civil unions or domestic partnerships.

In the United States, vital records are typically maintained at the state level. ^[1] In the United Kingdom, vital records are recorded in the civil registry.

Various European countries are members of an International Commission on Civil Status which provides a mutually recognized convention on the coding of entries appearing in civil status documents, with common codes and translation tables between the language of the member states. They also provide an English unofficial translation.

Also in some countries the "civil status" or marital status is considered to be the proper way to ask a person if they are single or married (divorced, widowed). It reveils the way society looks upon them and offers the other people the information that the person is/or not free of responsibility towards one or several individuals.

References

1. ^ "Florida Statutes, Chapter 382".

External links

• Where to Write for Vital Records in the US - National Center for Health Statistics

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