Inquiries related to Official Certificates and address information

Information from the Danish Civil Registration system (Det Centrale Personregister, CPR) is available through municipalities. There is no single central authority in Denmark from which you can access civil registration information.

If you need information about a person who lives or has lived in Denmark, e.g. for an address inquiry or genealogical inquiry for an estate inventory, you can contact the Borgerservice of your municipality of residence. First you have to choose the right municipality. The contact information of the municipality can be found from the bottom of the page. Municipalities charge a fee for the delivery of documents.

The inquiry must always state its purpose and person’s full name and date of birth OR persons full name and old address. In case of an estate inventory, an extract from the Finnish Digital and Population Data Service Agency stating the date of death is required. The extract can be in Finnish, English, or Swedish. For more information, see the Finnish Digital and Population Data Service Agency. If you are not able to obtain the information you need from the municipality, please send a request for an official certificate to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland at virkatodistus.um(a)gov.fi.

In Denmark, municipalities can only disclose information that is permitted under the Civil Registration system (CPR). The information is not as widely available as in Finnish or Swedish populations register extracts. For deceased persons, the names and addresses of the current spouse and children are given in Denmark. For living persons, only the current address is given. Fore more information, see the website of the Danish Civil Registration system on disclosure of personal data. Inquiries to Faroe Islands should be addressed to the Faroese civil register and inquiries to Greenland to the local municipality.