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As a recent immigrant to Finland the population system there is pretty fascinating. Seeing how many men/women share my forename was pretty cool, for example.
by stevekemp 10y ago
As a recent immigrant to Finland the population system there is pretty fascinating. Seeing how many men/women share my forename was pretty cool, for example.
One of the immediate perks was moving house - I updated my address in the population index and suddenly all the companies that bill me and send me mail had new details. No extra effort.
(Of course then I had to update my contact details on domains, and online stores outside Finland, but it was a great timesaver.)
- Aaargh20318 10y agoIn The Netherlands the civil registry is considered privacy sensitive information and not publicly accessible. You can get an extract of your personal information but you can't access the information of others, not even family or people who are already dead for use in genealogical research. Your records are opened to the public 100 years after death.