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*Civil registration records are also a good source of genealogical information.  See [[Uruguay Civil Registration|Uruguay Civil Registration]] for further information.  You should obtain copies of both church records and civil registration, when possible, since they do not necessarily provide the same information. For example, baptismal registers sometimes provide the names of the fathers of illegitimate children when the civil registration does not
*Civil registration records are also a good source of genealogical information.  See [[Uruguay Civil Registration|Uruguay Civil Registration]] for further information.  You should obtain copies of both church records and civil registration, when possible, since they do not necessarily provide the same information. For example, baptismal registers sometimes provide the names of the fathers of illegitimate children when the civil registration does not
*There may be more than one person with the same name
*There may be more than one person with the same name
*Check for variants of given names, surnames, and place names. Transcription errors could occur in any handwritten record; also, it was not uncommon for an individual be listed under a nickname or an abbreviation of their name. Click here for a list of [http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Community/en/FamilySearch/Handwriting/Spanish/Lesson2/SpanishNameAbbreviations.pdf Spanish name abbreviations]
*Check for variants of given names, surnames, and place names. Transcription errors could occur in any handwritten record; also, it was not uncommon for an individual be listed under a nickname or an abbreviation of their name.
*Even though this is an index there may still be inaccuracies, such as altered spellings, misinterpretations, and optical character recognition errors if the information was scanned
 
*A boundary change could have occurred and the record of your ancestor is now in a neighboring area. Search the records and indexes of neighboring cities, provinces, and regions
*Your ancestor may have immigrated to another country. Search the records of nearby countries or immigration/emigration records
=== Research Helps ===
=== Research Helps ===
The following articles will help you in your research for your family in [[Uruguay Genealogy|Uruguay]].
The following articles will help you in your research for your family in [[Uruguay Genealogy|Uruguay]].