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'''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.'''

Civil Registration
??From 1936 to the present, personal civil registers include records of naturalization, adoption, legitimization of children, declaration of mental competence, declarations of deaths not otherwise registered, marriage annulments, and divorces.
 * Civil registration records are government records covering birth, marriage, and death. They are an excellent source of names, dates, places, and relationships.
 * Civil authorities began registering births in 1886, marriages in 1886, and deaths in 1857 in most of the municipalities of Peru. In the Lima municipal archives, there are death registers for 1857–1867, and birth, marriage, and death registers of Peruvians born abroad for 1886–1911. By 1895, the archives included almost all individuals who lived in Peru.
 * Records of naturalization, adoption, and legitimization of children, are included in the early birth records. From 1936, these records are included as part of the Personal Register.
 * Civil registration records are one of the most important sources for genealogical research in Peru because civil registration covers the entire population and generally provides more information than church records. Due to political situations, civil registration for some municipalities may have begun after 1886. Civil registration records may also be the only source of information about non-Catholic people.


 * You will need to know the town where your family lived and to which municipio the town belonged. Peru Gazetteers will help you find the municipio level for your town.

1. Online Digital Records for Civil Registration
For many localities, digital copies of civil registration can be searched online: "Nascimientos" are births. Matrimonios are marriages.  "Defunciones" are deaths.
 * 1874-1996 -, index, not complete for all localities.
 * 1874-1996 - at FamilySearch Historical Records - free, browseable images only, not complete for all localities.

2. Microfilm Copies of Civil Registration Records Searched at a Family History Center
If the locality and time period you need are not included in the online records, the next step is to find them in the microfilm collection of the Family History Library. These microfilms may be viewed at Family History Centers around the world. To find a microfilm:


 * a. Click on this link to a see list of records for Peru, Lima.
 * b. Click on "Places within Peru, Lima" and a list of towns and cities will open.
 * c. Click on the town or city you wish to search.
 * d. Click on "Civil Registration" topic. Click on the blue links to specific record titles.
 * e. Choose the correct event and time period for your ancestor.
 * f. Some combination of these icons will appear at the far right of the microfilm listed for the record. FHL icons.png The magnifying glass indicates that the microfilm is indexed. Clicking on the magnifying glass will take you to the index. Clicking on the camera will take you to an online digital copy of the microfilm. Clicking on the microfilm reel will lead to information on how to rent the film. Family History Center staff will assist you in ordering the film.

3. Writing for Civil Registration Certificates
If the records are not online, and you do not have ready access to the microfilms, civil registration records in Mexico can be obtained by writing to the local civil registry in the municipality. This is particularly true for more recent records, which are covered by privacy laws. Relatives are allowed to request recent records for genealogy purposes. Civil officials will generally answer correspondence in Spanish. Your request may be forwarded if the records have been sent to state archives. '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
 * (postal code), (city), Aguascalientes
 * Mexico


 * Find the Mexico postal code here.

Send the following:


 * Money for the search fee, usually $10.00, and an international reply coupon (IRC)
 * Full name and the sex of the ancestor sought
 * Names of the ancestor’s parents, if known
 * Approximate date and place of the event
 * Your relationship to the ancestor
 * Reason for the request (family history, medical, and so on)
 * Request for a photocopy of the complete original record

'''Write your request in Spanish whenever possible. For writing your letter in Spanish, use the translated questions and phrases is this Spanish Letter-writing Guide.'''

Church Records
Although civil registration records are an important source for genealogical research in Mexico, many births, marriages, and deaths were never recorded by civil authorities; therefore, you must use church records to supplement this genealogical source.

The vast majority of Mexicans were Catholic and were registered in entries for baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in the local church records. Often two and sometimes three generations are indicated in the registers, with personal information on the family. Church records are the main source prior to 1850, when civil registration began. After this date one should search in both church and civil records, since there may be information in one record that does not appear in the other. For instance, the church records may only list the godparents, while the civil records may list the grandparents.

1. Online Digital Records for Church Records
For some localities, digital copies of Catholic church records can be searched online: Batismos are infant baptisms, which are used for birth information. Matrimônios' are marriages.  "Óbitos" are deaths. "Índice" is the index.
 * 1704-2008 - at FamilySearch Historical Records, free, index, incomplete.
 * 1704-2008 - at FamilySearch Historical Records - free, browseable images only, not complete for all localities. Records will eventually be indexed online.

2. Microfilm Copies of Church Records Searched at a Family History Center
If the locality and time period you need are not included in the online records, the next step is to find them in the microfilm collection of the Family History Library. These microfilms may be viewed at Family History Centers around the world. To find a microfilm:


 * a. Click on this link to a see list of records for Mexico, Aguascalientes.
 * b. Click on "Places within Mexico, Aguascalientes" and a list of towns and cities will open.
 * c. Click on the town or city you wish to search.
 * d. Click on "Church Records" topic. Click on the blue links to specific record titles.
 * e. Choose the correct event and time period for your ancestor.
 * f. Some combination of these icons will appear at the far right of the microfilm listed for the record. FHL icons.png. Clicking on the magnifying glass will take you to the index. Clicking on the camera will take you to an online digital copy of the microfilm. Clicking on the camera will take you to an online digital copy of the microfilm. Clicking on the microfilm reel will lead to information on how to rent the film. Family History Center staff will assist you in ordering the film.

3. Writing to a Catholic Priest for Church Records
Baptism, marriage, and death records may be searched by contacting or visiting local parish or diocese archives in Mexico. Mexico has no single repository of church records. Write your request in Spanish whenever possible. 'This method is not always reliable. Officials might or might not respond.'

Write a brief request in Spaniah to the proper church using this address as guide replacing the information in parentheses:


 * Reverendo Padre
 * Parroquia de (name of parish) 
 * (postal code), (city), Aguascalientes
 * Mexico


 * Find the Mexico postal code here.

When requesting information, send the following:

'''Write your request in Spanish whenever possible. For writing your letter in Spanish, use the translated questions and phrases is this Spanish Letter-writing Guide.]'''
 * Money for the search fee, usually $10.00, and an international reply coupon (IRC)
 * Full name and the sex of the ancestor sought
 * Names of the ancestor’s parents, if known
 * Approximate date and place of the event
 * Your relationship to the ancestor
 * Reason for the request (family history, medical, and so on)
 * Request for a photocopy of the complete original record

Reading the Records

 * You do not have to be fluent in Spanish to read your documents. Genealogical records usually contain a limited vocabulary. Use this Spanish Genealogical Word List to translate the important points in the document. Handwriting skills are taught in BYU Spanish Script Tutorial.


 * Online interactive slideshow lessons are available to help you learn to read these records:


 * Reading Spanish Handwritten Records, Lesson 1
 * Reading Spanish Handwritten Records, Lesson 2
 * Reading Spanish Handwritten Records, Lesson 3

Tips for finding your ancestor in the records

 * Births were usually reported within a few days of the birth by the father of the child, a neighbor, or the midwife. A search for a birth record should begin with the known date of birth and then searching forward in time, day by day, until the record is found. It might be found within a few days of the actual birth date, but in some instances, it might be weeks or months later. Birth, marriage, and death records are often indexed by given name or surname.
 * The Catholic Church continued keeping records after the creation of the civil registration in 1859. Therefore two types of records are available for the marriages. Be sure to search both records. With the separation of church and state in Mexico, formalized by the 1917 constitution, civil authorities determined that for couples to be legally married they had to be married by the state. Because of the close affinity of the Catholic Church and the state authorities, this rule was not always followed, and church weddings were accepted by the state. Normally, however, couples were married by civil authorities prior to a church wedding. On rare occasions they were married civilly after a church wedding.
 * Some municipios are small and therefore only have one civil registration office, but there are other larger municipios that have several sub civil registration offices that report to the main municipio office. These sub civil registration offices are all listed under the municipio seat. For example, in Sonora the municipio of Cajeme covers a large geographical area and has had ten sub civil registration offices at different times. These offices have been or are now in the following cities: two in the city of Ciudad Obregón and one each in Cumuripa, Esperanza, Cocorit, Providencia, Pueblo Yaqui, El Realito, Oviachic, and Buenavista. All of these offices are listed under Cajeme, with a "see" reference indicated by an arrow from the sub-civil registration office to Cajeme. A person looking for civil registration for Cocorit will be referred to Cajeme by the "see" reference or arrow. However, other records such as church records or censuses, will still be listed under Cocorit. Hence, to search all the records the library has for Cocorit you will need to search under two listings: Cajeme for civil registration, because Cocorit civil registration records are listed under Cajeme, and Cocorit for church records because the church records are listed under Cocorit.
 * Death records can be particularly helpful for people who may not have had a civil birth or marriage record but died during the period when civil registration had begun.

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