Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. document genres
7. [documents by function]
8. records (documents)
9. [records by provenance]
10. church records
11. [church records by form or function]

Anotations

Scope note:

Certificates that record the administration of the sacrament of baptism for an individual. Where the custom is to baptize infants, in documenting biographies, baptismal certificates are often substituted for birth records that are nonexistent or unobtainable.