Argentina Genealogy

South AmericaArgentina Guide to Argentina family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Country Information
In 1810 the provinces belonging to the Río de la Plata separated themselves from the crown of Spain. Later in 1816, the United Provinces of the Rio Plata formally declared their independence from Spain. After Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay went their separate ways, the area that remained became Argentina. The country's population and culture were heavily shaped by immigrants from throughout Europe, but most particularly Italy and Spain, which provided the largest percentage of newcomers from 1860 to 1930. Up until about the mid-20th century, much of Argentina's history was dominated by periods of internal political conflict between Federalists and Unitarians and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, an era of Peronist goverments followed. A military junta then took power in 1976. Democracy returned in 1983, and has persisted despite numerous challenges, the most formidable of which was a severe economic crisis in 2001-02 that led to violent public protests and the resignation of several interim presidents. The economy has recovered strongly since bottoming out in 2002.

Argentina Clickable Map
Argentina is politically divided into 23 provinces and 1 autonomous city. Understanding political divisions is essential to doing family history, because these divisions determine where records are recorded and archived. To learn more about Argentina's political division, Click here. To visit the page of a particular province, just click on the name of the province on either the map or the list below.

Provinces
Click on a province below to go to the province wiki article listing more information.

More Argentina 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 Argentina.
 * How to read old handwriting tutorials
 * Locating Place of Origin
 * Improve your Search Results

More Argentina Research Tools
Research tools can include resources that assist in locating correct records to search and determining the correct locality to search in. Below are links and wiki articles to research tools in Argentina.
 * BYU Research Outline for Argentina
 * IGI Batch Numbers
 * Useful websites
 * Argentina Census
 * at FamilySearch — index and images

FamilySearch Resources
Below are FamilySearch resources that can assist you in resourcing your family.
 * Facebook Communities - Facebook groups discussing genealogy research
 * Learning Center - Online genealogy courses
 * Latin America FamilySearch Tutorials Latin America Research
 * Historical Records - Listing of all records collections for Argentina available on FamilySearch.org
 * Family History Center locator map