Mexico, Archdiocese of Guadalajara, Miscellaneous Marriage Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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Jalisco, Mexico
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Location of Jalisco, Mexico
Record Description
Record Type:	Miscellaneous Marriage
Collection years:	1539-1939
Languages:	Spanish
Title in the Language:	México, Arquidiócesis de Guadalajara, Dispensas Matrimoniales.
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Related Websites
Explanation of Roman Catholic marriage dispensations
GCatholic.org entry on Archdiocese of Guadalajara
Historia de la Arquidiócesis, sitio de web de arzobispado de Guadalajara
Map of Guadalajara in 1972
Map of Guadalajara in 2009
Archive
Archivo de la Arquidiócesis de Guadalajara, Jalisco

What is in the Collection?

This collection includes marriage dispensation records housed at the Archives of the Archdioceses of Guadalajara in Mexico from 1539 to 1939.

A marriage dispensation was permission from a priest to overlook or forgo following some specific Catholic law pertaining to marriage. A more detailed explanation of dispensations is included in an article online at The Brick Walls website.

Reading These Records

These records are written in Spanish; also see the section For Help Reading These Records for translation helps.

To Browse This Collection

You can browse through images in this collection using the waypoints on the Collection Browse Page for Mexico, Archdiocese of Guadalajara, Miscellaneous Marriage Records, 1539-1939.

What Can This Collection Tell Me?

Marriage dispensation records may contain the following information:

• Date and place of marriage
• Groom's name and origin
• Names of groom's parents
• Bride's name and origin
• Names of bride's parents

Collection Contents

Sample Images

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  Marriage Dispensation Record

How Do I Search the Collection?

Before using this collection it is helpful to know:

• Your ancestor's given name and surname
• Identifying information such as residence
• Estimated marriage or birth year

View the Images

View images in this collection by visiting the Browse Page.

1. Select Record Type and Years to view the images.

For Help Reading These Records

For help reading these Spanish records, see the following resources:

• Mexico Language and Languages
• Spanish Genealogical Word List
• BYU Spanish Script Tutorial
• FamilySearch Learning Center videos:
  • Reading Spanish Handwritten Records, Lesson 1
  • Reading Spanish Handwritten Records, Lesson 2
  • Reading Spanish Handwritten Records, Lesson 3

How Do I Analyze the Results?

Compare each result from your search with what you know to determine if there is a match. This may require viewing multiple records or images.

What Do I Do Next?

I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

• For Mexico put: *Use the birth date or age along with the place of birth to find the family in 1930, Mexico National Census.
• Use the residence and names of the parents to locate other church and land records.
• Use the parents' birth places to find former residences and to establish a migration pattern for the family.

I Can’t Find The Person I’m Looking for, What Now?

• Check for variants of given names, surnames, and place names.
• Civil registration records are also a good source of genealogical 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.

Citing this Collection

When you copy information from a record, you should list where you found the information (often called citing your sources). This will help people find the record again and evaluate the reliability of the source. It is also good to keep track of records where you did not find information, including the names of the people you looked for in the records. Citations are available for the collection as a whole and each record or image individually.

Collection Citation:

Collection Citation: The citation for this collection can be found on the Collection Details Page in the section Cite This Collection.

Image Citation:
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