Vietnam Identity Cards
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Family Registers and Personal Identity Cards[edit | edit source]
Research use: Verifies family linkages from other records, shows relationships, places of birth, previous residence, extended families.
Record type: Each household in Vietnam is required to keep a family registration record, which gives the vital information on each person in the household. Each individual is also required to be personally registered.
Time Period: 1945-present.
Content: Names of residents, relationship to head of house; sex, sometimes place of birth, race, civil status, military status, literacy status, birth, and marriage data for all family members.
Location: National Civil Registration Office, local police registry offices.
Population coverage: 70%.
Reliability: Good.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Vietnam,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2001.
