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*Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog '''FamilySearch Library'''] may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them. | *Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog '''FamilySearch Library'''] may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them. | ||
*Genealogically speaking Spanish archives can be divided into several categories.<br> | *Genealogically speaking Spanish archives can be divided into several categories.<br> | ||
{{Block indent|*Civil archives can be found for various levels of civil government. For example, municipal, comarca, or provincial.}} | |||
{{Block indent|*Church archives - typically this relates to Catholic Church archives.}} | |||
{{Block indent|*Private archives which can be stand alone archives, or part of a civil or church archive.}} | |||
{{Block indent|*University archives - contain a wide variety of records.}} | |||
{{Block indent|*Military archives. These can be divided by branch of service and also by time period.}} | |||
==Directories of Archives== | ==Directories of Archives== | ||
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===Censo Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoamérica=== | ===Censo Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoamérica=== | ||
*[http://censoarchivos.mcu.es/CensoGuia/portada.htm '''Censo Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoamérica''']<br> | *[http://censoarchivos.mcu.es/CensoGuia/portada.htm '''Censo Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoamérica''']<br> | ||
{{Block indent|*[http://censoarchivos.mcu.es/CensoGuia/directorioarchivosInicial.htm '''Search Engine''']}} | |||
{{Block indent|Select country, autonomous community, province, and municipality. Click "Search" or "Buscar". An entry for each archive details address, telephone, fax, email, and website link.'''<br>|2}} | |||
The Guide Census (Censo Guía) is an electronic guide and archive directory of Spain and Ibero-America that allows citizens to immediately locate archive centers. At first the guide was limited to Spanish archives; later its scope has been extended to other countries in the Hispanic sphere.<ref>"History", at Censo Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoamérica, http://censoarchivos.mcu.es/CensoGuia/historia.htm, accessed 2 November 2022.</ref> | The Guide Census (Censo Guía) is an electronic guide and archive directory of Spain and Ibero-America that allows citizens to immediately locate archive centers. At first the guide was limited to Spanish archives; later its scope has been extended to other countries in the Hispanic sphere.<ref>"History", at Censo Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoamérica, http://censoarchivos.mcu.es/CensoGuia/historia.htm, accessed 2 November 2022.</ref> | ||
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===PARES the Portal de Archivos Españoles=== | ===PARES the Portal de Archivos Españoles=== | ||
*[https://pares.culturaydeporte.gob.es/inicio.html '''PARES (Portal de Archivos Españoles)'''] | *[https://pares.culturaydeporte.gob.es/inicio.html '''PARES (Portal de Archivos Españoles)'''] | ||
{{Block indent|*[[PARES, The Portal de Archivos Españoles|'''Instructions''']]<br>}} | |||
{{Block indent|Another directory of archives throughout Spain and Latin America, is [http://pares.culturaydeporte.gob.es/archivos-estatales.html PARES or the Portal de Archivos Españoles]. The site provides hours, services, addresses, and inventories for each provincial archive. To learn more about the website PARES and how to use it, please see, [[PARES, The Portal de Archivos Españoles]].|2}} | |||
==Government Archives== | ==Government Archives== | ||
===Civil Archives=== | ===Civil Archives=== | ||
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==Church Archives (Catholic Church)== | ==Church Archives (Catholic Church)== | ||
*[https://www.escolapia.cat/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/guia_archivos.pdf ''Guía de los Archivos de la Iglesia en España''] | *[https://www.escolapia.cat/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/guia_archivos.pdf ''Guía de los Archivos de la Iglesia en España''] | ||
{{Block indent|*This .pdf guide contains the detailed description of the one hundred and seventy major ecclesiastical archives of Spain (cathedral, diocesan, monastic and conventual) with address and telephone information, and of the 23,000 parish archives belonging to the sixty-seven dioceses of the Church in Spain. }} | |||
{{Block indent|*Starting on "xvii" is an alphabetical list of each municipality, with beginning dates of records of baptism, confirmation, marriages, deaths. }} | |||
{{Block indent|*Starting on page 649, the descriptions of each diocese are given with address and telephone, collection information, and a detailed list of parishes with the dates of baptism, marriage, confirmation, and death records deposited with the diocese.}} | |||
{{Block indent|*No tables of contents are provided. '''Use your computer's "Find" feature''' to jump the location name of the diocese of parish you need.}} | |||
===Parish Archives=== | ===Parish Archives=== | ||
*[http://censoarchivos.mcu.es/CensoGuia/portada.htm Censo Guia de Archivos de Espana e Iberoamerica] | *[http://censoarchivos.mcu.es/CensoGuia/portada.htm Censo Guia de Archivos de Espana e Iberoamerica] | ||
{{Block indent|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>|2}} | |||
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'''. | 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'''. | ||
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