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Argentina has no single repository of civil registration records. The present location of records depends on several factors. Records may be available at several locations, including: | Argentina has no single repository of civil registration records. The present location of records depends on several factors. Records may be available at several locations, including: | ||
===Local Civil Registration Municipal Offices=== | |||
Civil registration registers are maintained by the office of the Dirección del Registro Civil in the municipal district. The original book stays in the municipal office and duplicate copies are sent to the provincial or judicial archives of the province or the General Archive of the Tribunal in the federal district. The public has access to the books. | |||
Civil registration records in Argentina are available by writing to the local civil registration office. Civil officials will generally answer correspondence in Spanish. Use the following address: | Civil registration records in Argentina are available by writing to the local civil registration office. Civil officials will generally answer correspondence in Spanish. Use the following address: | ||
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Dirección del Registro Civil<br> Oficina de Inscripciones y Rectificaciones<br> (City), (Province), Argentina | Dirección del Registro Civil<br> Oficina de Inscripciones y Rectificaciones<br> (City), (Province), Argentina | ||
===Provincial archives and Tribunal archives=== | |||
These archives maintain the duplicates sent to them by the municipal districts. You may write to these archives and request searches of the records. The civil registration records for the federal district are preserved on microfiche and there is a general index by sex and type of record (birth, marriages, deaths, recognitions, inscriptions and adoptions). The public has access to these records. For the province of Buenos Aires you will need to write to the following address: | |||
Registro Provincial de las Personas<br> Calle 1 y 60<br> La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br> Telephone: 0221-429-6200 | Registro Provincial de las Personas<br> Calle 1 y 60<br> La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br> Telephone: 0221-429-6200 | ||