Workflow · 5 steps

A family joins the parish online

Most parishes start from an imported register, so the office usually links the request to the family it already holds, keeping the register’s facts unless it chooses otherwise.

Head of family

Parish office

Step by step

Step 1: Create an account
Head of family
on Sign up
A name, an address and a password. The account works once the 6-digit code sent to that address is entered.
What the others see: Nothing reaches any parish yet.
Step 2: Record the family
Head of family
on No parish yet · My family
They start a family, becoming its head, and add the people in it: names, dates of birth, photos.
What the others see: The family is theirs; no parish sees it until they ask.
Step 3: Find the parish and ask
Head of family
on Find your parish
They search by the parish’s name or place, choose it, and ask to join with a short note. While it waits they can cancel.
What the others see: The request appears under “Asked to join” for the office, and the office is told.
Step 4: The office decides
Parish office
on Asked to join
The office sees who is asking, the family and everybody in it, and possible matches in the register. It approves as a new family, links to a family it already has, pairing each person, or declines with a reason.
What the others see: The family is told the answer. A declined family sees the reason and may ask again.
Step 5: The parish opens
Head of family
on Today
Approved, they come in as members. If the office linked them to a family in the register, they are shown what changed, and can ask the office to correct it.
What the others see: The office fills in the family number, ward and unit.

How it ends

A family in the parish without an invitation, one record for it rather than two, and the register’s facts kept.

5 steps

A baptism, from request to certificate

The family asks once, naming the child, the parents and the godparents. That request becomes the draft register entry, so nothing is typed twice between the request and the certificate.

A wedding with one party from outside the parish

A partner from elsewhere becomes a member when the marriage is recorded, the couple’s household is settled in the same step, and the anniversary is remembered from then on.