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Spanish Letter Writing Guide (view source)
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Letters written in Spanish have a greater chance of receiving a reply than those written in English. Spain has good response to correspondence, but receiving an answer may be difficult because of problems with the mail. In Latin America frequent mail strikes result in letters getting lost. | Letters written in Spanish have a greater chance of receiving a reply than those written in English. Spain has good response to correspondence, but receiving an answer may be difficult because of problems with the mail. In Latin America frequent mail strikes result in letters getting lost. | ||
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Before you write a letter to obtain family history information, you should do two things: | Before you write a letter to obtain family history information, you should do two things: | ||
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•'''Determine exactly where your ancestor was born, married, or died.''' Because most genealogical records were recorded locally, you will need to know the specific locality where your ancestor was born, married, died, or resided for a given time. See the [[Tracing Immigrant Origins|Tracing Immigrant Origins]] Wiki article for help in finding home towns. | •'''Determine exactly where your ancestor was born, married, or died.''' Because most genealogical records were recorded locally, you will need to know the specific locality where your ancestor was born, married, died, or resided for a given time. See the [[Tracing Immigrant Origins|Tracing Immigrant Origins]] Wiki article for help in finding home towns. | ||
•'''Determine where records from your ancestor’s home parish are stored today.''' When you have a locality name, use a gazetteer to determine whether the name is a village, parish, city, district, county, or province and which parish serves your ancestor’s locality. Parish record books in which the most recent entry is older than 90 years are generally sent to provincial archives. | •'''Determine where records from your ancestor’s home parish are stored today.''' When you have a locality name, use a gazetteer to determine whether the name is a village, parish, city, district, county, or province and which parish serves your ancestor’s locality. Parish record books in which the most recent entry is older than 90 years are generally sent to provincial archives. | ||
== '''RESEARCH BY MAIL''' == | == '''RESEARCH BY MAIL''' == | ||