From Roman times until Now?

Before the Romans colonized the Middle-East and the Holy lands, Israel registered only themselves and no one outside their ethnic community, But when Roman arrived the first serious census of the people in the region was undertaken and this has remained a part of western society to this day.

Governments want everyone in their respective nations to have a static place of residence and are not in favor of people moving from place to place, but the world still has many nomadic peoples and so they use A to B/Z to register them!

Ezekiel 13:9, Luke 2:1-2.