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 === To find your Catholic parish, see the following sources:  ===
-*You can learn if your ancestor’s town or city had an established parish by checking a [http://www.thecatholicdirectory.com/directory.cfm?fuseaction=show_country&country=PR Catholic church directory.] It will list the archdiocese officials and the dioceses with their parishes, so you can easily determine all nearby parishes. It may include historical information about each parish, and sometimes it provides addresses for parishes, the diocese headquarters, and the diocese archives where additional records may be kept.
+*You can learn if your ancestor’s town or city had an established parish by checking a [https://www.catholicdirectory.com/puerto-rico Catholic church directory.] It will list the archdiocese officials and the dioceses with their parishes, so you can easily determine all nearby parishes. It may include historical information about each parish, and sometimes it provides addresses for parishes, the diocese headquarters, and the diocese archives where additional records may be kept.
 If your ancestor came from a large city that had several parishes, you will need to know what section of the city he or she lived in to determine what parish he or she belonged to. However, in a large city such as San Juan, you may find that even if you know the closest parish, sometimes the family went to the cathedral or the parish of a relative in the same city for the baptism of a child. If you do not find the complete family in the home parish, search the surrounding parishes of the city.