Chile Genealogy

Guide to Chile ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

Country Information
Chile is a country in South America bordered by Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. It was formerly a colony of Spain. The official language is Spanish.

Finding Your Ancestors' Town in Chile

 * Genealogical records are organized by geographical locality. Civil registration (government birth, marriage, and death records) and church records (christenings/baptisms, marriages, and burials) were kept at the local level. To search these records, you must know the town where your ancestors lived.
 * If you do not know your ancestors' town, follow the advice in the Wiki article, Chile Finding Town of Origin, to search a variety of records that might provide that information.

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Regions
Chile is divided into 15 regions, 54 provinces and 346 communes. Each region is both named and numbered (designated by a Roman Numeral). The only exception is the Santiago Metropolitan Region (Región Metropolitana de Santiago), which is designated with RM. Provinces are listed for each region.
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More Chile Research Strategies
Research strategies give guidance on how to research or what records to search for first. Below are additional research strategy Wiki articles for Chile.
 * Chile Resources
 * Improve your Search Results
 * Researching Easter Island
 * Latin American Research online tutoral

FamilySearch Resources
Below are FamilySearch resources that can assist you in researching your family.
 * Facebook Communities - Facebook groups discussing genealogy research
 * FamilySearch Chile Record Collections
 * Family History Center locator map

Research Tutorials

 * Search page
 * Introduction to Hispanic Research
 * U.S. Hispanic Immigration
 * U.S. Hispanic Immigrants: Finding their Place of Origin
 * Improve your Search Results in FamilySearch Hispanic Records
 * Reading Spanish Handwritten Records:
 * Lesson 1: The Spanish Alphabet
 * Lesson 2: Words and Dates
 * Lesson 3: Reading Spanish Records
 * Hispanic Online Resources