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-Argentina has no single repository of civil registration records. Records may be available at several locations, including local civil registration municipal offices, provincial archives and tribunal archives.
+Argentina has no single repository of civil registration records.
-Civil registration records are kept at the local municipal district civil registration office [Dirección del Registro Civil ]. You must determine the municipal district where your ancestor lived to find the records. The judicial or provincial archives as well as the tribunals in the federal district have some duplicate records.
+Civil registration registers are maintained by the office of the Dirección del Registro Civil in the municipal district. The original book stays in the municipal office and duplicate copies are sent to the provincial or judicial archives of the province or the General Archive of the Tribunal in the federal district.
 A village may belong civilly to a larger nearby town. In large cities, there may be many civil registration districts. Use gazetteers and other geographic references to identify the place your ancestor lived and the civil registration office that served it. See [[Argentina Gazetteers]].
 ====Local Civil Registration Municipal Offices====
-Civil registration registers are maintained by the office of the Dirección del Registro Civil in the municipal district. The original book stays in the municipal office and duplicate copies are sent to the provincial or judicial archives of the province or the General Archive of the Tribunal in the federal district. The public has access to the books.
-Civil registration records in Argentina are available by writing to the local civil registration office. Civil officials will generally answer correspondence in Spanish. Use the following address:
+An example of an address format is:
 ::Dirección del Registro Civil<br>
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 ====Provincial Archives and Tribunal Archives====
-These archives maintain the duplicates sent to them by the municipal districts. You may write to these archives and request searches of the records. The civil registration records for the federal district are preserved on microfiche and there is a general index by sex and type of record (birth, marriages, deaths, recognitions, inscriptions and adoptions). The public has access to these records. <br>
+The civil registration records for the federal district are preserved on microfiche and there is a general index by sex and type of record (birth, marriages, deaths, recognitions, inscriptions and adoptions). <br>
 For the province of Buenos Aires, write to the following address: