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== El Salvador: Ancestor's birth, marriage, or death location unknown  ==
== El Salvador: Ancestor's birth, marriage, or death location unknown  ==


*[https://familysearch.org/search '''FamilySearch Indexed Records:'''] Try searching in the indexed records for the name of the ancestor if they were born before 1900. Limit your results to the country of El Salvador and the name of the department if known. If there are no results, you will have to find more information from home sources or by asking family members.  
*[https://familysearch.org/search '''FamilySearch Indexed Records:'''] Try searching in the indexed records for the name of the ancestor and limit your results to El Salvador. Also limit by the name of the department, if known. When the results appear, carefully go thru them. A result must match all the information that you know about them to be considered your ancestor. Do not assume it must be your ancestor if only one result shows up.
 
*Contact Family Members to learn more information about your ancestor. This could be older aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. The more information that you learn about your ancestor, the easier it will be to find them in the records.
'''Contact Family Members:''' If you do not have even a minimal amount of information AND have no idea of where and when to look, you need to contact family members you might have that information. This could be older aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.  
*Start with immigration records in the Unites States. Then search emigration records in El Salvador. Finally search for Marriage and Birth records in El Salvador. If you know they died in El Salvador, then search for Death records.


== El Salvador: Ancestor's birth, marriage, or death location and names of parents, children, or spouse known  ==
== El Salvador: Ancestor's birth, marriage, or death location and names of parents, children, or spouse known  ==
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