The practice of describing one's status in family registers was abolished in 1914, and it was determined not to describe one's status after World War II when the Family Registration Law was amended, but the description of the status remained in original family registers.
戸籍の族籍記載は1914年（大正3年）に撤廃され、第二次世界大戦後の戸籍法改正で表記しないことに定まったが原本には残っていた。