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 This collection includes civil records for Baja California and Baja California Sur and covers from 1860 to 2004.
-Records, such as birth, marriages, and deaths, are organized by state and then by municipality/city. Early records were handwritten in narrative style; later records were handwritten in formatted registers. These records are written in [[Spanish Genealogical Word List|Spanish]]; also see the section [[Mexico, Baja California and Baja California Sur, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)#For Help Reading These Records|For Help Reading These Records]] for translation helps.
+Records, such as birth, marriages, and deaths, are organized by state and then by municipality/city. Early records were handwritten in narrative style; later records were handwritten in formatted registers.
 Civil records in Mexico cover about 90 to 95% of the population. Beginning in 1859, the Mexican government began requiring births, marriages, and deaths to be recorded by civil authorities on a municipality/district level. Although these records are a great source of genealogical information, they are not complete as civil registration wasn't strictly enforced in Mexico until 1867 and people did not always comply. For this reason, church registers should be used alongside the civil records. The civil records of Mexico have been preserved relatively well. Only some of the older registers may have some physical damage. However, in general they are in good condition to extract genealogical information.
 === Reading These Records ===
-These records are in Spanish. For help reading these records see the following guides:
+For help reading these Spanish records see the following guides:
 *[[Mexico Language and Languages]]
 *[[Spanish Genealogical Word List]]
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 ===I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?===
-*Use the marriage date and place as the basis for compiling a new family group or for verifying existing information
+*Add any new information to your records
-*Use the birth date or age along with the place of birth of each spouce to find a couple's birth records and parents' names
+*Use the information to find more. For instance, use the age listed in the record to estimate a year of birth, if that is yet undetermined
-*Use the birth date or age along with the place of birth to find the family in [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1307314?collectionNameFilter=true 1930, Mexico National Census]
-*Use the death date or age along with the place of death to find birth records
-*Use the residence and names of the parents to locate church records
 *Compile information for every person who has the same surname as your ancestor; this is especially helpful in rural areas or if the surname is unusual
-*Continue to search the records to identify children, siblings, parents, and other relatives in the same county or nearby. This can help you identify other generations of your family or even the second marriage of a parent. Repeat this process for each new generation you identify
+*Continue to search the records to identify children, siblings, parents, and other relatives in the same county or nearby. This can help you identify other generations of your family or even the second marriage of a parent
-*Use the marriage number to identify previous marriages
+*Make sure to fully transcribe and cite the record entry for future reference; see the section [[#Citing This Collection|Citing This Collection]] for assistance. Save or print a copy of the image
-*When looking for a person who had a common name, look at all the entries for the name before deciding which is correct
+*Use the birth date or age along with the place of birth to find the family in [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1307314?collectionNameFilter=true 1930, Mexico National Census]. The census can help you find if your ancestors were married civilly or by the Catholic Church or both. Then you can proceed looking in those records for more information
 ===I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now?===
-*New information is constantly being indexed, microfilmed or updated.  Periodically check back and see if your ancestor’s records have been added.  You can see if the area you’ve been looking in has been recently updated by going to [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list Historical Records Collections] and notice the asterisk for recently added or updated records
-*[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Mexico,_Baja_California_and_Baja_California_Sur,_Catholic_Church_Records_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records) Church records] are also a good source of genealogical information. You should obtain copies of both church records and civil registration, when possible, since they do not necessarily provide the same information. For example, baptismal registers sometimes provide the names of the fathers of illegitimate children when the civil registration does not
-*Check for variants of given names, surnames, and place names. Transcription errors could occur in any handwritten record; also, it was not uncommon for an individual be listed under a nickname or an abbreviation of their name. Click here for a list of [http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Community/en/FamilySearch/Handwriting/Spanish/Lesson2/SpanishNameAbbreviations.pdf Spanish name abbreviations]
-*A boundary change could have occurred and the record of your ancestor is now in a neighboring area. Try looking through records in the surrounding localities. Baja California shares a small part of its northeastern border with [[Sonora]] and its northern border with [[California, United States Genealogy|California]]. Baja California Sur is surrounded by water excepting the northern border it shares with Baja California
 *Consult the [[Mexico Record Finder]] to find other records
+*[[Mexico, Baja California and Baja California Sur, Catholic Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)]] may also be a good substitute when civil records of births, marriages, and deaths cannot be found or are unavailable
+*Check for variants of given names, surnames, and place names. Transcription errors could occur in any handwritten record; also, it was not uncommon for an individual be listed under a nickname or an abbreviation of their name
+*Also, consider looking at collections for surrounding localities.  Baja California shares a small part of its northeastern border with [[Sonora]] and its northern border with [[California, United States Genealogy|California]]. Baja California Sur is surrounded by water except for the northern border that it shares with Baja California
+*New information is constantly being indexed, microfilmed or updated.  Periodically check back to see if your ancestor’s records have been added.  You can see if the area you’ve been looking in has been recently updated by going to [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list Historical Records Collections].  Watch for an asterisk for recently added or updated records
 == Citing This Collection ==