Enquiry Forms

Use this form to enquire with the National Archives about property rights, building ownership, and ownership of shares in industrial enterprises, ships, and securities up until 1940. Please note: the archives cannot conduct extensive research on your behalf.

Important: Your query should include detailed information about the property such as its location, name, immovable number or current cadastral code and owner.

We have plans for many old urban/city buildings (up to 1940), but fewer records are available for farm houses. For more information check the section for Real estates and buildings.

Please note: the state fee for archival notices related to the attestation of rights and transactions is 15 euros, as mandated by the Law on State Fee (§ 346). After reviewing your enquiry, we will send you an invoice for the state fee payment. Expect a response within 30 days of payment.

Please make sure you have the required software installed on your computer to open digitally signed documents.

The fee for enquiries made for personal research is 15 euros. 

Use this form to enquire with the National Archives about previous employment and length of service for pension eligibility.

We can verify your employment dates only if the documents from the specific institution or company have been deposited in the archives.

Important: Before submitting your query, we advise reaching out to the Pension Department. They can confirm the specific type of archival notice you need and will handle enquiries related to missing or incomplete documents.

Please note: the state fee for archival notices related to the attestation of rights and transactions is 15 euros, as mandated by the Law on State Fee (§ 346). After reviewing your enquiry, we will send you an invoice for the state fee payment. Expect a response within 30 days of payment.

Use this form to enquire with the National Archives of Estonia about family events, such as birth, death, marriage, and more. The archives holds church registers, parish member lists, soul revision lists, and numerous personal documents. When submitting your enquiry, please include as much detailed information about person as possible: their name, date and place of birth, names of their parents or other relatives, church congregation they belonged to, where they lived etc.

Please note: the archives cannot conduct extensive research on your behalf.

For information on Tallinn inhabitants, please consult the Tallinn City Archives. You can also conduct family research independently online through ur virtual reading room VAU and the Saaga portal using digitised genealogical records.

Important: If you're seeking data for Estonian citizenship application, please use the Citizenship enquiry form.

The fee for enquiries made for personal research is 15 euros.

Use this form to inquire with the National Archives about citizenship of the Estonian Republic from 1918 to 1940.

Important: When submitting your enquiry, please include as much detailed information about the person as possible: their name, date and place of birth, names of their parents or other close relatives, where they lived and worked between 1918 and 1940 etc.

Please note: the state fee for archival notices related to the attestation of rights and transactions is 15 euros, as mandated by the Law on State Fee (§ 346). After reviewing your enquiry, we will send you an invoice for the state fee payment. Expect a response within 30 days of payment.

Please make sure you have the required software installed on your computer to open digitally signed documents.

Use this form to inquire with the National Archives of Estonia regarding the succession procedure.

Please note: the state fee for archival notices related to the attestation of rights and transactions is 15 euros, as mandated by the Law on State Fee (§ 346). After reviewing your enquiry, we will send you an invoice for the state fee payment. Expect a response within 30 days of payment.

Please make sure you have the required software installed on your computer to open digitally signed documents.

Use this form to enquire with the National Archives of Estonia about all other types of personal information, for example exact time of birth, political repressions during the German or Soviet occupations, military service before 1991.

For genealogical research enquiries, please refer to the Genealogical Research form.

Please note: the state fee for archival notices related to the attestation of rights and transactions is 15 euros, as mandated by the Law on State Fee (§ 346). After reviewing your enquiry, we will send you an invoice for the state fee payment. Expect a response within 30 days of payment.

Please make sure you have the required software installed on your computer to open digitally signed documents.

The fee for enquiries made for personal research is 15 euros. 

This form can be used to submit an inquiry about the time of birth recorded in the maternity hospital register. The National Archives hold the registers of Tartu, Pärnu, Viljandi, Võru, and the current East Tallinn Central Hospital (Tallinn Central Hospital, Tallinn Republican Hospital, Ravi Street Hospital). In other cases, inquiries must be sent to the respective regional hospital.

The service fee for processing the inquiry is 15 euros.

This form can be used to place an order or inquiry with the National Archives' film archive.

Please write the purpose of use for the photos/films in the provided field, and if possible, include the reference codes or numbers of the archival materials. The price for a photo may include an additional license fee, which depends on the intended use.

The price of a film copy is based on the available format of the usage copy. An archive consultant will specify the price after the order is submitted.

Note: If you wish to order multiple photos at once, you may attach a list of the photos as an annex.

Please note: the state fee for archival notices related to the attestation of rights and transactions is 15 euros, as mandated by the Law on State Fee (§ 346). After reviewing your enquiry, we will send you an invoice for the state fee payment. Expect a response within 30 days of payment.

Please make sure you have the required software installed on your computer to open digitally signed documents.

The fee for enquiries made for personal research is 15 euros.