Delhi, India Vital Records 1879 to 1990 Now in Compilation

Delhi India The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has started compiling the old records of births and deaths registered in Delhi, India. It dug out files from the Delhi, India – City Zone (Chandni Chowk area) and Karol Bagh Zone offices last year. Over a hundred years old, these files were written in Urdu with a quill and ink. Registration of births and deaths started in 1879 when the British began requiring it.

The assembly the old records was started in 2005. Though the number of birth and death records is not available, the record room at the MCD’s Rajpur Road office has over 130 iron “cupboards” holding these old files in various volumes. This room has all the records till 1990.

Read more about the MCD and Vital Records in the March 30, 2009 edition of ExpressIndia.com.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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