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| | Family register - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A family register (also known as any of several variations, such as household register, family album, familienbuch, koseki etc. |
 | | Often, official recognition of certain events or status may only be granted when such event or status is registered in the family registry—for example, in Japan, legal residence is only acknowledged when entered into the household register (known as a koseki). |
 | | In other cases, the family register serves as a centralized repository for family legal events, such as births, deaths, marriages, and expatriations, as with the familienbuch in use in Germany, although it is not the sole source of official recognition for such events. |
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