Spain Genealogy

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Spain

Guide to Spain genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Country Information

Spain is a country in Southwest Europe bordered by Gibraltar, France, Andorra, and Portugal. Spanish is the official language.

Getting Started

Getting Started with Spain Research Links to articles on getting started with Spain research. "How to" Guides Spain Quick Start Guide Locating Place of Origin Spain Resources See More Research Strategies

Spain Research Tools Links to articles and websites that assist in Spain research. Spanish Genealogical Word List Spanish Letter Writing Guide Listing of all records collections for Spain available on FamilySearch.org. See More Research Tools

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Jurisdictions

Provinces

Spain is divided into 50 provinces. Each province belongs to one of 17 autonomous communities. A list of the provinces of Spain and access to their individual pages are listed below along with a clickable map. Each link will take you to a step-by-step process for research in that province.

Álava Albacete Alicante Almería Asturias Ávila Badajoz Baleares Barcelona Burgos Cáceres Cádiz Cantabria

Castellón Ciudad Real Córdoba Cuenca Gerona Granada Guadalajara Guipúzcoa Huelva Huesca Jaén La Coruña León

Lérida Lugo Madrid Málaga Murcia Navarra Orense Palencia Las Palmas Pontevedra La Rioja Salamanca Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Segovia Sevilla Soria Tarragona Teruel Toledo Valencia Valladolid Vizcaya Zamora Zaragoza

Autonomous Communities

Spain is divided into 17 autonomous communities (comunidades autonomas, singular - comunidad autonoma) and 2 autonomous cities* (ciudades autonomas, singular - ciudad autonoma).

Andalucia Aragon Asturias Baleares (Balearic Islands) Canarias (Canary Islands)

Cantabria Castilla-La Mancha Castilla and Leon Cataluña (Catalonia) Ceuta, see Places of Sovereignty

Extremadura Galicia La Rioja Madrid Melilla, see Places of Sovereignty

Murcia Navarra Pais Vasco (Basque Country) Valencia

Places of Sovereignty (Plazas de Soberania)

The autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla plus three small islands of Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera, administered directly by the Spanish central government, are all along the coast of Morocco and are collectively referred to as Places of Sovereignty (Plazas de Soberania).

• Ceuta
• Melilla
• Islas Chafarinas
• Penon de Alhucemas
• Penon de Velez de la Gomera,

More Spain Research Strategies

Research strategies give guidance on how to research or what records to search for first. Below are additional research strategy Wiki articles for Spain.

• Spain Finding Records
• Spanish Script Tutorial
• Reading Spanish Handwritten Records
• Understanding "Spanish Script"
• BYU Research Outline for Spain
• Spanish naming customs

FamilySearch Resources

Below are FamilySearch resources that can assist you in resourcing your family.

• Southern Europe Facebook Community - Facebook group discussing genealogy research
• Historical Records, Spain - databases and record images on FamilySearch
• Family History Center locator map

Research Tutorials

• Search page
• Dokuklik: Online Parish Record Indexes for the Basque Country in Spain
• Introduction to Hispanic Research
• Reading Spanish Handwritten Records:
  • Lesson 1: The Spanish Alphabet
  • Lesson 2: Words and Dates
  • Lesson 3: Reading Spanish Records
• Hispanic Online Resources
• U.S. Hispanic Immigrants: Finding their Place of Origin
• Improve your Search Results in FamilySearch Hispanic Records

Websites

• Hispanic Genealogy Blog
• Spain Genealogy Links
• Spanish Genealogy & Family History
• GenealogySpot: Spain
• Spanish Genealogy Forum
• Directory of Royal Genealogical Data
• Biblioteca Nacional de España Collections - in English
• Spain
• Spain GenWeb

References

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