Bestact – Software for Visualization of Digitalized Family Registers and Civil Status Acts

Abstract

The introduction of new IT in public administration is a prerequisite for improving its efficiency and improving the administrative services.

According to the legal requirements registers of civil status acts are formed for each municipality, stored in the territorial units Directorate "General Civil Registration and Administrative Services" for 130 years, then transferred to the State Archives. The oldest family registers are from the 1893 and their physical state in most municipalities is very bad. The logical outcome of the situation is the digitalization of these records.

The software BestAct, developed by the author is planned, designed and developed to automate the handling of old family registers and civil status acts. Visualization of digitalized family registers and civil status has the ability to search by criteria.

Keywords: IT, digitalization, registers and civil status acts, software