Mexico, Baja California and Baja California Sur, Catholic Church Records - FamilySearch Historical Records: Difference between revisions

{{FamilySearch_Collection|CID=CID1916086 |title=Mexico, Baja California and Baja California Sur Catholic Church Records|location=Mexican}}  

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Separate books were kept for baptisms, confirmations, marriage information documents, marriages, and burials. However, in smaller areas, all records may be recorded on one register. In larger parishes a separate book was usually maintained for confirmations, while in smaller parishes the confirmations may have been included with the baptisms. Similarly, marriage information documents may have been included with marriages. In larger parishes, most of the marriage banns (informaciones matrimoniales) may be registered separately. In smaller parishes, these records were included in the marriage entry. In smaller parishes, the confirmations may have been included with the baptisms or even with marriages. In larger parishes, a separate book of confirmations was usually maintained.

 

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The records are in relatively fair condition, with the exception of some older records that may be damaged, and therefore hard to read or missing some information. Most of the older records are handwritten in narrative style and follow a common text with some variations depending on the style used by the priest. Newer records are handwritten in formatted registers, and some are even written in ledger style registers.  

*Date of baptism, confirmation, marriage, and burial [[Image:Mexico Baja California Catholic Church Records Baptism.jpg|thumb|right]]  

<br>The key genealogical facts found in most baptism records are:  

*Date of baptism [[Image:Mexico Baja California Catholic Church Records Marriage.jpg|thumb|right]]  

<br>The key genealogical facts found in most marriage records are:  

*Date of marriage [[Image:Mexico Baja California Catholic Church Records Death.jpg|thumb|right]]  

<br>The key genealogical facts found in most burial or death records are:  

*Sometimes the race of the deceased&nbsp;

Parish registers were kept by the priest at the parish level. Parishes were local congregations that may have included smaller villages within their boundaries. A large city may have contained several parishes. The parishes had jurisdiction over both vice parishes (vice parroquias) and chapelries (capillar foraneas). Multiple parishes (parroquias) were under the jurisdiction of a diocese. The highest level of government in the Catholic Church was the archdiocese (arquidiócesis), which was made up of several dioceses. In 1995 the Catholic Church in Mexico had 14 archdioceses; 58 dioceses; 5,345 parishes; and 1,611 chapelries (subparishes). This collection covers the Catholic Church population living in parishes in the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur. The majority of the population of these two states was Roman Catholic, and entries for them are found in parish registers. Only in the late 19th century did other religious groups begin to be established in the area. [[Image:Baja California2.jpg|thumb|right|128x125px]]

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==== Examples of Source Citations for a Record in This Collection  ====

*“El Salvador Civil Registration,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org: accessed 21 March 2011), entry for Jose Maria Antonio del Carmen, born 9 April 1880; citing La Libertad, San Juan Opico, Nacimientos 1879-1893, image 50; Ministerio Archivo Civil de la Alcaldia Municipal de San Salvador.  

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