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To find out to which autonomous community a province belongs please see the following article and scroll down to the section: [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia_de_Espa%C3%B1a Tabla de provincias]. The last column of the table includes a list of all the municipalities within the province. The municipalities are important because they are where your ancestors would have gone to record birth, marriage, and death information in the Civil Registers. Civil registration began nationwide in Spain in 1869 however, many municipalities, or ''ayuntamientos'', began record keeping before the national mandate to do so. | To find out to which autonomous community a province belongs please see the following article and scroll down to the section: [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia_de_Espa%C3%B1a Tabla de provincias]. The last column of the table includes a list of all the municipalities within the province. The municipalities are important because they are where your ancestors would have gone to record birth, marriage, and death information in the Civil Registers. Civil registration began nationwide in Spain in 1869 however, many municipalities, or ''ayuntamientos'', began record keeping before the national mandate to do so. | ||
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