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In order to locate civil registration records for your ancestor you will need to know where they lived. If your ancestors lived in a small town or a remote location, you will need to locate the nearest municipality with a civil registration office where they might have gone to record these vital events. Online maps or gazetteers can be helpful in locating jurisdictions. More information may be found in the Wiki gazetteers pages for each individual country. In Spanish the most helpful gazetteers are called diccionarios geográficos. It is also important to know approximate years when the events took place. | In order to locate civil registration records for your ancestor you will need to know where they lived. If your ancestors lived in a small town or a remote location, you will need to locate the nearest municipality with a civil registration office where they might have gone to record these vital events. Online maps or gazetteers can be helpful in locating jurisdictions. More information may be found in the Wiki gazetteers pages for each individual country. In Spanish the most helpful gazetteers are called diccionarios geográficos. It is also important to know approximate years when the events took place. | ||
Many Civil Registration records can be found online at FamilySearch.org. Where indexes are available begin by searching for a name first. If there are no options to search by name, you will need to | Many Civil Registration records can be found online at FamilySearch.org. Where indexes are available begin by searching for a name first. If there are no options to search by name, you will need to browse the records page by page. You will first choose the province, department, or state, then the city, and then the record type. | ||
Births = nacimientos; Marriages = matrimonios; Deaths = defunciones. | Births = nacimientos; Marriages = matrimonios; Deaths = defunciones. | ||