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::Parish archives are listed under each municipality. Address and telephone are given, and sometimes e-mail and website. See instructions [[ Spain Archives#Censo Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoamérica|'''above'''.]]<br> | ::Parish archives are listed under each municipality. Address and telephone are given, and sometimes e-mail and website. See instructions [[ Spain Archives#Censo Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoamérica|'''above'''.]]<br> | ||
Parish archives maintain the parish books for their own parish. Most of the surviving parish records in Spain have been centralized to the Diocesan Archive. | Parish archives maintain the parish books for their own parish. Most of the surviving parish records in Spain have been centralized to the Diocesan Archive. However, records that are not more than 100 years old and those that were never sent to the Diocesan archive are kept/stored in the parish archive. The parish records most common and most relevant to family history: '''baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and deaths/burials'''. | ||
===Diocesan Archives=== | ===Diocesan Archives=== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_Roman_Catholic_dioceses_of_Spain Wikipedia List of Roman Catholic Dioceses en Spain]<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_Roman_Catholic_dioceses_of_Spain Wikipedia List of Roman Catholic Dioceses en Spain]<br> | ||