Philippines, Chinese Church Census - FamilySearch Historical Records

Philippines

What is in This Collection?
This collection contains church census records of the Chinese population in the Philippines from 1786-1901. These records can contain names of most of the members of the household, age, marital status, occupation, place, birth date, marriage date, etc. A large portion of the records are from the Metro Manila area but other localities within the Philippines are included. These records a part of a series belonging to the Administración Central de Impuestos (Central Tax Administration).

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Inventory
This table lists all the titles that contain films/folders that are included in this collection. This collection includes 213 films and digital folders from 17 titles in the FamilySearch Catalog.

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