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Guide to Spain ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Spain is a country in Southwest Europe bordered by Gibraltar, France, Andorra, and Portugal. Spanish is the official language.

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Provinces

Spain is divided into 50 provinces. Each province belongs to one of 17 autonomous communities. A list of the provinces of Spain and access to their individual pages are listed below along with a clickable map. Each link will take you to a step-by-step process for research in that province.

• Álava
• Albacete
• Alicante
• Almería
• Asturias
• Ávila
• Badajoz
• Baleares
• Barcelona
• Burgos
• Cáceres
• Cádiz
• Cantabria
• Castellón
• Ciudad Real
• Córdoba
• Cuenca
• Gerona
• Granada
• Guadalajara
• Guipúzcoa
• Huelva
• Huesca
• Jaén
• La Coruña
• La Rioja
• Las Palmas
• León
• Lérida
• Lugo
• Madrid
• Málaga
• Murcia
• Navarra
• Orense
• Palencia
• Pontevedra
• Salamanca
• Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• Segovia
• Sevilla
• Soria
• Tarragona
• Teruel
• Toledo
• Valencia
• Valladolid
• Vizcaya
• Zamora
• Zaragoza

Autonomous Communities

Spain is divided into 17 autonomous communities (comunidades autonomas, singular - comunidad autonoma) and 2 autonomous cities* (ciudades autonomas, singular - ciudad autonoma).

Andalucia Aragon Asturias Baleares (Balearic Islands) Canarias (Canary Islands) Cantabria Castilla-La Mancha Castilla and Leon Cataluña (Catalonia) *Ceuta, see Places of Sovereignty Extremadura Galicia La Rioja Madrid *Melilla, see Places of Sovereignty Murcia Navarra Pais Vasco (Basque Country) Valencia

Places of Sovereignty (Plazas de Soberania)

The autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla plus three small islands of Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera, administered directly by the Spanish central government, are all along the coast of Morocco and are collectively referred to as Places of Sovereignty (Plazas de Soberania).

• Ceuta
• Melilla
• Islas Chafarinas
• Penon de Alhucemas
• Penon de Velez de la Gomera,

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