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 == Obtaining Civil Registration Records  ==
-===Ministerio de Justicia===
-Spain does have a national index or central repository for civil registration ([https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/es Ministerio de Justicia]). Researchers can solicit the [https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/es Ministerio de Justicia] online for copies of certificates. Requests must have: name of deceased, date when event occurred (birth, marriage, or death), and where the event occurred. Parent's names will also be required when asking for a birth certificate. For more information on how to order these records online, please see the article [[Order Spain Vital Records Online|Order Spain Vital Records Online]].
-* [https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/en/tramites/certificado-nacimiento link to order a birth certificate.]
-* [https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/en/tramites/certificado-matrimonio link to order a marriage certificate.]
-* [https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/en/tramites/certificado-defuncion link to order a death certificate.]
 === Online Resources  ===
-*[http://censoarchivos.mcu.es/CensoGuia/portada.htm Censo Guia de Archivos de Espana e Iberoamerica]
-**The Archive Directory (Directorio de Archivos) will allow you to search for nearly any archive in Spain. Each archive entry will give you an inventory of the records in that archive as well as the archive's contact information.<br>
-====Basque Country====
-*[http://www.justizia.net/certificado-nacimiento Birth Records]
-*[http://www.justizia.net/certificado-matrimonio Marriage Records]
-*[http://www.justizia.net/certificado-defuncion Death Records]
-**This site will allow you to order a birth, marriage, or death certificate from any municipality in the Basque Country (provinces of Alava, Guipuzcoa, and Vizcaya) for free.<br>
-===Local Civil Registration Office===
-The records are still housed in each municipality in their local municpal archives, ''Juzgado de la Paz'' or ''Oficina del Registro Civil ''should be contacted if a certificate copy request to the Ministerio de Justicia fails.
-Larger cities may have multiple civil registration districts, and smaller towns may have their own civil registration office, or belong to an office of a nearby town. To determine the political jurisdiction for the town where your ancestors came from please see the [[Spain Gazetteers|'''Spain Gazetteers''']] article.<br>
-The best way to find out if civil registration records are available in the town you are researching in, and to get the address of the archive is through the Directorio de Archivos in the [http://censoarchivos.mcu.es/CensoGuia/portada.htm Censo-guia].
-===FamilySearch Records===
-Some ''municipios'' may have civil registration records beginning as early as 1837. These births, marriages, and deaths are normally found in the municipal archive. Some of them have been microfilmed and/or digitized by FamilySearch.<br>
 *'''1762-1921''' {{RecordSearch|2014774|Spain, Province of '''Alicante''', Municipal Records, 1762-1921}} at FamilySearch - [[Spain, Province of Alicante, Municipal Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images<br>
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 *'''1611-1935''' {{RecordSearch|2015367|Spain, Province of '''Valencia''', Municipal Records, 1611-1935}} at FamilySearch - [[Spain, Province of Valencia, Municipal Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images<br>
+===Ministerio de Justicia===
+Spain does have a national index or central repository for civil registration ([https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/es Ministerio de Justicia]). Researchers can solicit the [https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/es Ministerio de Justicia] online for copies of certificates. Requests must have: name of deceased, date when event occurred (birth, marriage, or death), and where the event occurred. Parent's names will also be required when asking for a birth certificate. For more information on how to order these records online, please see the article [[Order Spain Vital Records Online|Order Spain Vital Records Online]].
+* [https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/en/tramites/certificado-nacimiento link to order a birth certificate.]
+* [https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/en/tramites/certificado-matrimonio link to order a marriage certificate.]
+* [https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/en/tramites/certificado-defuncion link to order a death certificate.]
+*[http://censoarchivos.mcu.es/CensoGuia/portada.htm Censo Guia de Archivos de Espana e Iberoamerica]
+**The Archive Directory (Directorio de Archivos) will allow you to search for nearly any archive in Spain. Each archive entry will give you an inventory of the records in that archive as well as the archive's contact information.<br>
+====Basque Country====
+*[http://www.justizia.net/certificado-nacimiento Birth Records]
+*[http://www.justizia.net/certificado-matrimonio Marriage Records]
+*[http://www.justizia.net/certificado-defuncion Death Records]
+**This site will allow you to order a birth, marriage, or death certificate from any municipality in the Basque Country (provinces of Alava, Guipuzcoa, and Vizcaya) for free.<br>
+===Local Civil Registration Office===
+The records are still housed in each municipality in their local municpal archives, ''Juzgado de la Paz'' or ''Oficina del Registro Civil ''should be contacted if a certificate copy request to the Ministerio de Justicia fails.
+Larger cities may have multiple civil registration districts, and smaller towns may have their own civil registration office, or belong to an office of a nearby town. To determine the political jurisdiction for the town where your ancestors came from please see the [[Spain Gazetteers|'''Spain Gazetteers''']] article.<br>
+The best way to find out if civil registration records are available in the town you are researching in, and to get the address of the archive is through the Directorio de Archivos in the [http://censoarchivos.mcu.es/CensoGuia/portada.htm Censo-guia].
 ==Definition==
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 [[Media:Death Template.pdf|Death/Burial Extract Form]]
-These forms are designed to help you quickly analyze and organize your documents. They can become a personal index for your family records.