Mexico, Baja California and Baja California Sur, Catholic Church Records - FamilySearch Historical Records: Difference between revisions

• Date of baptism, confirmation, marriage, and burial<br>• Event place is the parish unless noted otherwise<br>• Name of the person being baptized, confirmed, married, or buried and sometimes the names of the parents, spouse, and other relatives<br>• Age of the person being baptized, confirmed, married, or buried<br>• Sex of the participants except for witnesses (sex can be inferred from the given name[[Image:Mexico Baja California Catholic Church Records Death.jpg|thumb|right|Sample image of a death/burial record from Baja California, Mexico.]]<br>• Place of residence of the family, marriage partners, or the deceased<br>• Legitimacy of the child in baptismal entries<br>• Social class of the parents in baptismal entries prior to 1820<br>• Marital status of the individuals  

Parish registers are the best Mexican record to identify individuals, parents, and spouses before 1859. After this date, civil authorities began registering vital statistics, and these become equally important. The information in civil sources confirms and supplements the information in church records. For instance, the parish registers may list the godparents while the civil records may list the grandparents. Be sure to search both the parish and civil records after 1860 since some families did not consistently register their children with either of them.<br>