id: https://w3id.org/nde/ontology/Personenstandsarchiv
name: Personenstandsarchiv
title: Personenstandsarchiv (Civil Registry Archive)
prefixes:
  linkml: https://w3id.org/linkml/
imports:
- linkml:types
- ./ArchiveOrganizationType
- ./CollectionType
classes:
  Personenstandsarchiv:
    is_a: ArchiveOrganizationType
    class_uri: skos:Concept
    description: "Civil registry archive (Personenstandsarchiv). Archives specializing\nin civil registration records including birth, marriage, and death\ncertificates.\n\n**Wikidata**: Q2072394\n\n**Geographic Restriction**: Germany (DE) only.\nThis constraint is enforced via LinkML `rules` with `postconditions`.\n\n**Scope**:\nPersonenstandsarchive preserve:\n- Geburtsregister (birth registers)\n- Heiratsregister (marriage registers)\n- Sterberegister (death registers)\n- Personenstandsurkunden (civil status certificates)\n- Sammelakten (supplementary documents)\n- Familienb\xFCcher (family books, 1938-2008)\n\n**Legal Context**:\nIn Germany, civil registration (Personenstandswesen) began in:\n- Prussia: 1874\n- All German states: 1876 (Reichspersonenstandsgesetz)\n\nRegisters are transferred to archives after retention periods:\n- Birth registers: 110 years\n- Marriage registers: 80 years\n- Death registers: 30 years\n\n**Organizational Types**:\nPersonenstandsarchive may be:\n- Dedicated\
      \ archives (e.g., Landesarchiv Berlin - Personenstandsarchiv)\n- Departments within Landesarchive or Stadtarchive\n- Centralized collections at state level\n\n**Related Types**:\n- ChurchArchive (Q2877653) - Predecessor for vital records\n- ChurchArchiveSweden (Q64166606) - Swedish church records\n- MunicipalArchive (Q604177) - May hold local civil registers\n- ParishArchive (Q34544468) - Pre-civil registration records\n"
    slot_usage: {}
    annotations:
      specificity_score: 0.1
      specificity_rationale: Generic utility class/slot created during migration
      custodian_types:
      - '*'
      custodian_types_rationale: Universal utility concept