User:Terriethomas/sandbox/Province pages

Steps for inventing Peru Province pages

You will be converting the Aguascalientes, Mexico page to a Lima, Peru Genealogy page, which will be used as the template/prototype for all the Peru pages. “Most of your genealogical research for Aguascalientes will be in two main record types: civil registration and church records. This article will teach you methods for locating and searching these two record groups. “ had a civil birth or marriage record but died during the period when civil registration had begun.”
 * Copy and paste the Aguascalientes, Mexico genealogy page into a sandbox starting with the text:
 * Down through the last tip: “Death records can be particularly helpful for people who may not have

Read Peru Civil Registration down through the end of the history. Simplify these two paragraphs as much as possible. Turn it into a bullet list of the main points. In each item of the bullet list highlight a phrase that labels the main point.
 * Civil Registration section: Introduction


 * Change the Gazetteer link to the Peru Gazetteers wiki article. Check all the gazetteers on the page in Internet Archive and Google to see if you can find one online. If you can, put that link loud and clear of the Peru Gazetteers page first thing right at the top.

1. Online Digital Records for Civil Registration[edit | edit source] Go to https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list. Work through the links in the index untill you get to “Peru, Lima, Civil Registration, 1874-1996” Imitate the format of the Aguascalientes links to change them to Lima links.. The first link is the indexed for of the record. The second link is the same record but comes in at the list of parishes in the record—so people can browse the actual images.

2. Microfilm Copies of Civil Registration Records Searched at a Family History Center Change the links in a. Go to the Catalog, enter “Peru, Lima”. When the list of topics comes up, use the URL to create the link.

3. Writing for Civil Registration Certificates Erase the Mexico material down to just before: This method is not always reliable. Officials might or might not respond. “Locating Civil Registration Records” and the first two lines of “Locating Records Not at the Family History Library”. Edit it as needed to simplify and eliminate redundancy.
 * Go back to Peru Civil Registration. Copy and paste the information under

respond.” on down.
 * Keep all the material from “This method is not always reliable. Officials might or might not

good one, sometimes not.
 * Hunt on Google for the best list of Peru postal codes you can find. Sometimes Wikipedia has a

(postal code), (city), Aguascalientes Mexico Find the Mexico postal code here.
 * Change these two links once you find a good one.

You can keep the same intro. just change the beginning date for civil registration from 1850 to “1886 (1857 for deaths)”
 * Church Records:Introduction

1. Online Digital Records for Church Records Go to https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list. for Peru. Click on Peru, Catholic Church Records, 1603-1992. Click on Browse through 4,192,353 images. Click on Lima. The link will be made in the usual format for an external link rather than the {{RecordSearch….. format. You will still keep the rest of the information about the link.

2. Microfilm Copies of Church Records Searched at a Family History Center Make the same changes as the microfilm info under civil registration.

3. Writing to a Catholic Priest for Church Records Go to Peru Church Records. Use the information under “Locating Records” to write a different introduction to this section. All of the adress and letterwriting material can be kept. Again change the postal code links. Just after the address for local parish, copy in this part: Church archives. Many parish registers are still located at the parish, but some are collected in diocese archives. Church archives are often unable to handle genealogical requests but can determine whether specific records are available. Parishes will generally answer correspondence in Spanish. If the records have been sent to the diocesan archives, your request may be forwarded to the appropriate offices. Use this directory and find the address for the Lima Archdiocese and show it as where they should write. An online directory of Catholic Dioceses in Peru is available at http://www.catholichierarchy.org/country/dpe.html

Mexico strategies still apply to Peru. Delete anything that doesn’t apply. Add any other good tips you find.
 * Tips for finding your ancestor in the records
 * Read through the Peru Civil Registration and Peru Church Records and decide which parts of the