Paraguay Quick Start Guide

Paraguay Quick Start Guide

Paraguay: Ancstor's birth, marriage, or death location unknown
FamilySearch Indexed Records: Try searching in the indexed records for the name of you ancestor if they were born before 1900. Limit your results to the country of Paraguay and the name of the department, if known. If there are no results, you will have to find more information from home sources or by asking family members.

Contact family members: If you do not have even a minimal amount of information AND have no idea of where and when to look, you need to contact family members who might have that information. This could be older aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.

Paraguay: Ancestor's birth, marriage, or death location and names of parents, spouse, or children are known
FamilySearch Indexed Records: Try searching first in indexed records. Try a variety of searches with your ancestor's name, or with parents' names, or just by parents' surnames AND using the option to limit locality by the country Paraguay and the name of the department.

FamilySearch Browse Images: If there are no results from the previous searc for the ancestor or any siblings, you will have to browse images for the locality. FamilySearch has not microfilmed the Civil Registration for Paraguay.

FamilySearch Catalog: Not all records for Paraguay are online, be sure to check the catalog before giving up on finding records.

Research Strategies
Who to search for? If you don't know the names of the parents, but you know the name of the spouse and/or the names of some of his children, begin with a marriage search (if they married in Childe and you know the place). Or begin with a search for the birth/baptism record for one of their children (if you have an approximate birth date and place).

Finding a Locality

 * Google
 * Wikipedia (The Spanish version works the best.)
 * Try a keyword search in the FamilySearch Catalog for Paraguay Gazetteers.

Online Resources
For other online resources please review the Wiki article Hispanic Genealogy Resources Online.