Changes at register office/Änderungen beim Standesamt

I wrote about the types of German birth certificate in 2005. The practice of German register offices changed on January 1 2009. Here is my earlier summary with the changes: Geburtsschein (minimum details) - now gekürzte Geburtsurkunde Geburtsurkunde (most details) - now Geburtsurkunde Abstammungsurkunde (most details - including natural parents) - now beglaubigter Geburtsregisterausdruck This shows that you can usually translate both Geburtsurkunde and Abstammungsurkunde as birth certificate, but there will be circumstances in which you need to distinguish them and can add 'showing natural parents'. Another problem I mentioned then was that some Geburtsurkunden say 'mit der Abstammungsurkunde identisch'. This means that if you want to get married, you can use the certificate as evidence of your biological parents. At le…