Familienbuch
Familienbuch, literally "family book," is a term used for a register or booklet that records the members of a family and their vital events. In civil administration, a Familienbuch may function as a concise record of a household’s lineage, listing names, dates and places of birth, marriages, and deaths, and indicating family relationships. Depending on the jurisdiction, it may be a standalone booklet or part of a larger civil registry, and it is commonly used in genealogy and archival contexts as a consolidated reference.
In modern Germany and other German-speaking areas, civil registers maintain family registers to document kinship for
Historically, during the Nazi era, the regime instituted extensive bureaucratic controls over Jewish populations. In this
Today the term appears primarily in genealogical and archival discussions and in descriptions of civil-status practice.