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Your ancestor may have lived in a village that belonged civilly to a larger nearby town. In large cities, there may be many civil registration districts. You may need to use gazetteers and other geographic references to identify the place your ancestor lived and the civil registration office that served it. See [[Argentina Gazetteers]]. In addition to the town, you need to know at least an approximate year in which the birth, marriage, divorce, or death occurred.  
Your ancestor may have lived in a village that belonged civilly to a larger nearby town. In large cities, there may be many civil registration districts. You may need to use gazetteers and other geographic references to identify the place your ancestor lived and the civil registration office that served it. See [[Argentina Gazetteers]]. In addition to the town, you need to know at least an approximate year in which the birth, marriage, divorce, or death occurred.  
Births, marriages, and deaths were written in the civil registration records as they occurred and thus are arranged  chronologically. Some provinces and some of the tribunals of the federal district have indexed their records. You will need to ask, to see if the records you want to search are indexed.


Argentina has no single repository of civil registration records. The present location of records depends on several factors. Records may be available at several locations, including:
Argentina has no single repository of civil registration records. The present location of records depends on several factors. Records may be available at several locations, including:
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