Argentina Civil Registration: Difference between revisions

Civil registration records are kept at the local municipal district civil registration office [Dirección del Registro Civil ]. Therefore, you must determine the municipal district where your ancestor lived before you can find the records. The judicial or provincial archives as well as the tribunals in the federal district have some duplicate records that the municipal district have send to them.  

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.  

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: