Chile Research Tips and Strategies

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Research Strategies

Purpose of Research Tips and Strategies Wiki Page The Chile Research Tips and Strategies page consists of links to specific research strategies for Chile. It also contains general tips and other resources for finding your ancestors in this locality.

Chile Research Strategies

• Getting Started
• Finding Town of Origin
• Record Finder - gives suggestions for records to search
• Online Learning - Video Classes
• Finding Records
• Improve your Search Results
• Research Guide
• Research Outline
• Finding Your Hispanic Roots by George R. Ryskamp (Baltimore: MD, 1997), FS Library INTL Book 946 D27r.

Language Resources

• Script Tutorial
• Spanish Genealogical Word List
• Cassell's Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary. New York: Macmillan Publishers, 1978. (FS Library book 463.21 C272c 1978.)
• Paleogra-what?! Deciphering Spanish Handwriting

Chile Research Tips

Locate the Catholic Parish

• Checking a Catholic church directory to assist in locating the ancestor's Catholic parish. It lists archdiocese officials and the dioceses with their parishes to determine all nearby parishes. It may include historical information about each parish, and sometimes it provides addresses for parishes, the diocese headquarters, and the diocese archives where additional records may be kept.
• If your ancestor came from a large city that had several parishes, the section of the city they lived in is necessary. However, in a large city such as Santiago or Concepción families went to the cathedral or the parish of a relative in the same city for the baptism of a child. Search the surrounding parishes of the city.
• If the ancestor lived in a very small village that did not have an established parish, check a map, church directory, or gazetteer to determine which nearby town had a parish.