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Archives and Libraries

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• Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
• If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
• Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the FamilySearch Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

Archives

National Archives

• National Archives System

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National Archives of Peru (Archivo General de la Nación)
Palacio de Justicia
Jirón Manuel Cuadros s/n
Casilla No. 3124
Cercado de Lima
Lima 1
Telephone: 511 426 7221
Website
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Endangered Archives: Peru

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Regional Archives

• Regional Archives Directory

Regional Archive of Amazonas (Archivo Regional de Amazonas) Cerro Colorado s/n - Chachapoyas Amazonas, Peru Telephone: 041-478112 Email: jram_1161@hotmail.com Regional Archive of Ancash (Archivo Regional de Ancash) Campamento Vichay S/N Independencia, Huaraz Ancash, Peru Telephone: 51 043-423966/043-429998/043-421272 Email: Archivoregional@regionancash.gob.pe Website Regional Archive of Apurímac (Archivo Regional de Apurímac) Av. Condebamba s / n - Condebamba Stadium - Second level Abancay 03001 Apurímac, Peru Telephone: 51 083-322372 Email: DAR_Apurimac@outlook.com Website Facebook Regional Archive of Arequipa (Archivo Regional de Arequipa) Ramón Castilla 729, Cayma Arequipilla, Arequipa 054, Peru Telephone: 51 054 325309 Email: ksantillana@regionarequipa.gob.pe Regional Archive of Ayacucho (Archivo Regional de Ayacucho) Av. Independencia Nº 502 - Simón Bolívar Cultural Center Ayacucho, Huamanga Ayacucho, Peru Telephone: 51 66 318865/66 319326 Email: emailaray@hotmail.com Facebook Regional Archive of Cajamarca (Archivo Regional de Cajamarca) Calle Belén s/n 6° Cuadra Conjunto Monumental Belén 188, Cajamarca Telephone: 51 076-36 3320 Email: bangulo@regioncajamarca.gob.pe Regional Archive of Callao (Archivo Regional de Callao) Elmer Faucett N ° 3970 Callao, Lima Regional Archive of Cusco (Archivo Regional de Cuzco) Av. La Cultura s/n Central Library 2nd floor UNSAAC Cusco, Peru 08003 Telephone: 51 084-233897 Email: fileregionalcusco2020@gmail.com Website Regional Archive of Huancavelica (Archivo Regional de Huancavelica) Jr. Nicolás de Piérola s/n Huancavelica, Peru Telephone: 51 067-480517 Email: ronaldupla@hotmail.com Facebook Regional Archive of Huánuco (Archivo Regional de Huánuco) Jr. Mayro 616 Huánuco 10003, Peru Telephone: 51 62 637499/62 518696 Email: archivoregionalhuanuco@gmail.com Facebook Website Regional Archive of Ica (Archivo Regional de Ica) Av. Juan Jose Elía 690, Ica Ica 11001, Peru Telephone: (056) 222723 Email: wgaldos@regionica.gob.pe Facebook Regional Archive of Junín (Archivo Regional de Junín) Urbanizacion Los Jardines de San Carlos - Calle Las Rosas N° 152 - 156 Huancayo 12002, Peru Telephone: 51 64 585975 Email: direccionregionaldearchivo@gmail.com Website Facebook Regional Archive of Lambayeque (Archivo Regional de Lambayeque) Av. Juan Tomis Sack, cuadro 9 Pacifico, Chiclayo 14001 Telephone: 51 74 201239 E-mail: archivo.regional@regionlambayeque.gob.pe Archivo Facebook

Regional Archive of La Libertad (Archivo Regional de La Libertad) Casona Larco (Jr. Independencia N ° 509, Trujillo, La Libertad 13001) Telephone: 51 44 241763 Email: archivoregionallalibertad@regionlalibertad.gob.pe Facebook Regional Archive of Lima (Archivo Regional de Lima) Circunvalación S/N Agua Dulce - Huacho Lima, Peru Telephone: 51 012322623 Email: cchuquipoma@regionlima.gob.pe Regional Archive of Loreto (Archivo Regional de Loreto) Calle Fanning N° 729 - Iquitos, Peru Telephone: 51 65 50-0304 Email: rofecapi_56@hotmail.com Facebook Regional Archive of Madre de Dios (Archivo Regional de Madre de Dios) Jirón Junín con Calle Antonio Raimondi - Puerto Maldonado Madre de Dios, Peru E-mail: pmedranov@hotmail.com Facebook Regional Archive of Moquegua (Archivo Regional de Moquegua) Pje. de la Bayoneta N° 100 Moquegua, Peru Email: archivomoq_2012@hotmail.com Regional Archive of Pasco (Archivo Regional de Pasco) Jr. July 28, Juan Pampa, State Building No. 3, First floor Cerro de Pasco, Peru Telephone: 51 63 721990 Email: direccionarchivo@regionpasco.gob.pe Regional Archive of Piura (Archivo Regional de Piura) Jirón Los Tallanes s / n Urb. San Eduardo - El Chipe Piura 20009 Telephone: 51 073-326634 Email: archivo.regional@regionpiura.gob.pe; scanova@regionpiura.gob.pe Regional Archive of Puno (Archivo Regional de Puno) Av. El Ejercito Nº 645 Puno 21002 Telephone: 51 51 600704 Email: archivoregionalpuno@hotmail.com Facebook {https://archivoregional.regionpuno.gob.pe/ Website] Regional Archive of San Martín (Archivo Regional de San Martín) Jr. Juan Pablo Góngora s/n. Barrio de Calvario Moyobamba 22001 Telephone: 51 950 501 143 Email: archivoregional@regionsanmartin.gob.pe Facebook Website Regional Archive of Tacna (Archivo Regional de Tacna) Calle Zela 716 Tacna 23001, Peru Telephone: 51 52 415225 Email: archivoregional@regiontacna.gob.pe Website Facebook Subregional Archive of Bajo Mayo (Archivo Subregional Bajo Mayo - Tarapoto) Jr. Orellana Nº. 634 Tarapoto Telephone: 51 42 523469 Annex Nº. 136 Email: archivosubregion@regionsanmartin.gob.pe Website Regional Archive of Tumbes (Archivo Regional de Tumbes) Av. La Marina N° 200 Tumbes, Peru Telephone: 957 861 120 E-mail: edwingemilio26@hotmail.com Regional Archive of Ucayali (Archivo Regional de Ucayali) Jr Raymondi N° 220 Ucayali, Peru Telephone: 961 923 202 / 949 292 348 E-mail: jgonzaled172@gmail.com ; sec.general@regionucayali.gob.pe [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064334155890 Facebook}

Municipal Archives

All records created by local governments in Peru, including birth, death, and marriage records, are kept in municipal offices. These offices are comparable to county courthouses and town halls in the United States. Copies of the municipal records are available to the public. For more information about these offices and their records, see Peru Civil Registration.

These archives also house the Libros de Cabildos (minute books), which contain information about local administration, founding of towns, commercial life, markets, sanitation, administration of justice, and social relations. The municipal records of the town of Huamanga are housed in the National Library.

You can get information about the records kept at a particular municipality by writing to the municipal office. See Spanish Letter Writing Guide for instructions on how to write for genealogical information.

Municipal Library and Historical Archive of Lima (Archivo de la Municipalidad de Lima)
Jirón Conde de Superunda 141
Cercado de Lima 15001, Peru
Telephone: 330-3988 and 632-1540
Email: library@munlima.gob.pe
Website
Historical Archive
Digital Library

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Piura Municipal Central Archive (Archivo Histórico de la Municipalidad de Piura)
Jr. Ayacucho 377 - Basement of the Municipality
Piura, Peru
Telephone: 51 73 355899/73 307775
Email: jcornejo@munipiura.gob.pe
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Church Archives

The Catholic Church has gathered the early church records from the dioceses into a centralized archive. Six of Lima's seven parishes store their pre-1900 records in the Archive of the Archbishopric of Lima (Archivo Arzobispal de Lima).

Archive of the Archbishopric of Lima (Archivo Arzobispal de Lima)
Calle Luis Espejo 1064
Cercado de Lima 15034
Telephone: 51 471-4738
Email: lagaguti@terra.com.pe
Archbishop Archives of Lima

The Archive of the Archbishop of Lima has documentation since 1543 on visitations (visitas), holy works (obras pias), tithing (diezmos), property, and divorce. Parish records, particularly baptisms, are the most likely to be indexed. Additionally, there are eight volumes of indexes of marriage documents (expedientes matrimoniales). The diocese keeps the records of parishes that no longer exist.

See Peru Church Directories, Peru Church History, and Peru Church Records for more information.

Libraries

National Library of Peru(Biblioteca Nacional)
Av. De La Poesía 160
San Borja 15034, Peru
Telephone: 51 1 5136900 - Annex 7000
Email: jefatura@binape.gob.pe
Website: Peru National Library

The National Library has several large collections that are of particular interest to family historians. It is one of the main repositories for primary documents relating to the military. It has one of the most thorough collections of imprints dating from the independence and republican periods, and has extensive collections of pamphlets and memorias. Other documents of interest are land grants (encomiendas), judicial records (judiciales), succession rights (mayorazgos), chaplaincy records (capellanías), chieftainship records (cacicazgos), immovable property of Lima (propiedad inmóvil de Lima), dowries (dotes), parish registers (registros parroquiales), town council minutes (actas de cabildo), and books of the orders and decrees (libros de cédulas y proviciones). The National Library also has registers of the notaries (escribanos) of Lima, Arequipa, and Cuzco. A fire in 1943 destroyed a large part of the manuscript collection, but following the catastrophe the surviving documents were thoroughly cataloged.

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Biblioteca de Barranco - Municipalidad de Barranco
Pedro de Osma
Barranco 15063
Av. San Martín S / N, Parque Municipal
Barranco, Lima, Peru
Telephone: 51 1 2036730/719-2041/719-2046
Email: consultations@munibarranco.gob.pe
Website
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Bibliotecas Municipales - Municipalidad de Miraflores
Av. Larco 770
Miraflores
Lima 18, Peru
Telephone: 51 6177261 / 6177260
Email: biblioteca@miraflores.gob.pe
Website

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Municipal Library of Ica (Biblioteca Municipal de Ica)
Calle Acacias 194
San Isidro, Ica 11001, Peru
Telephone: 51 239246/51 977 832 518
Email: bibliotecasanmartin.ica@hotmail.com
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Museums

National Museum (Museo de la Nación)
Av. Javier Prado Este 2465
San Borja 15021
Telephone: 51 1 4769878/1 6189393 annex 2306/2280/2484
Email: dipm@cultura.gob.pe
Website

The nation's museum houses an approximate collection of 15,500 works, most of which belong to the pre-Hispanic period such as metals, textiles and ceramics, the rest come from the colonial and republican times. The collection is of the archaeological, historical and ethnographic type of Peru.

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Lima Metropolitan Museum (Museo Metropolitano de Lima)
Av. 28 Julio with Av. Garcilaso de la Vega, Lima - Parque de la Exposicion, Av. 28 de Julio, Cercado de Lima
Telephone: 51 1 3303899
Email: museometropolitano@munlima.gob.pe
Lima Metropolitan Museum

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National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru, Lima (Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Antropologia e Historia del Peru)
Plaza Bolivar s / n Pueblo Libre
San Borgia, Peru
Telephone: 51 321 5630 - Annex 5262/618-9393 Anexo: 5211
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The National Museum of Archeology, Anthropology and History of Peru (MNAAHP) is the first museum in Peru; the largest, oldest and most representative of our country. It was the only one that Peru had in the first hundred years of the Republic. It has two different series: Historical Archive and Collections. The first preserves documents from the 16th century and the second, personal and career files of the most important researchers in the country. Its importance lies in the valuable cultural heritage that it guards in its deposits and repositories, which houses approximately 300,000 pieces that make up the legacy of our pre-Hispanic, colonial and republican past. The Museum building has an architecture that combines elements from the late Colonial and Republican periods. Along with its exhibitions, it makes this a meeting place with the history of Peru and the ideal place where everyone, regardless of age or place of origin, can discover, relive and question the experiences of our ancestors.

Record Offices

The Supreme Court of Justice (Corte Superior de Justicia) in Lima, Peru has duplicates of civil registration records. If your request to the municipality is unsuccessful, write for records sent to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic (Corte Superior de Justicia de la República).

Archivo de la Corte Suprema de la República
Palacio de Justicia
Jirón Manuel Cuadros s/n
Cercado de Lima
Lima 1, PERÚ
Telephone: 51-14-28-3690

Public Archives Directorate, General Archive of the Nation
The birth, marriage and death certificates of Lima Provinces, Metropolitana and its districts, as well as the Constitutional Province of Callao and its districts are guarded until 1997 (in some cases until 1999).
Jr. Camaná 125 with Pasaje Piura s / n - Cercado de Lima
communications@agn.gob.pe
Telephone Central: (01) 426 - 7221

Writing to a Municipality for Records

Civil registration records are kept at the local civil registration office (Oficina del Registro Civil) in each municipality. You must determine the town where your ancestor lived before you can find the records. A civil registration district may include several towns or a small section of a large city. You may need to use gazetteers and other geographic references to identify the place your ancestor lived and the civil registration office that served it (see Peru Gazetteers). In addition to the town, you need to know an approximate year in which the birth, marriage, divorce, or death occurred.This method is not always reliable. Officials might or might not respond.
Write a brief request in Spanish to the proper office using this address as a guide replacing the information in parentheses:

Oficino del Registro Civil

(street name, number)

(city), (region)

(postal code)

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• Find the Peru postal code here.