Peru, Puno, Civil Registration - FamilySearch Historical Records

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This collection includes births, marriages, deaths, and indexes created by civil registration offices in the department of Puno, Peru for the years 1890-2005. Some of these records have been indexed and are available for search.

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Reading These Records
These records are written in Spanish; see the section For Help Reading these Records for translation helps.

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Coverage Table
As of 9 December 2016 this collection included records from the following provinces.

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 * Your ancestor's given name and surname
 * Identifying information such as residence
 * Estimated marriage or birth year

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For Help Reading these Records
For help reading these Spanish records see the following guides:


 * Spanish Genealogical Word List
 * Reading Spanish handwritten records
 * Script tutorial for Spanish

To learn more about using the information available in these records, view these lessons for free:
 * Documentos esenciales para buscar a sus antepasados - Spanish
 * Registros Civiles y Parroquiales - Spanish

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I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

 * For marriage and death records, name changes, shortened names, or nicknames may have been used by your ancestors, so pay attention to other relationships (parents, spouse, siblings, children, etc.) that can confirm whether you have the right person/record.
 * Witnesses were sometimes relatives of the deceased or the deceased's parents.
 * Continue to search the indexes and records to identify children, siblings, parents, and other relatives who may have lived in the same area or a nearby area.
 * Use the marriage date and place as the basis for compiling a new family group or for verifying existing information.
 * Use the birth date or age along with the place of birth of each partner to find a couple's birth records and parents' names.
 * Use the residence and names of the parents to locate church and land records.
 * Occupations listed can lead you to other types of records such as employment or military records.
 * Use the parents' birth places to find former residences and to establish a migration pattern for the family.
 * Compile the marriage entries for every person who has the same surname as the bride or groom; this is especially helpful in rural areas or if the surname is unusual.
 * Continue to search the marriage records to identify children, siblings, parents, and other relatives of the bride and groom who may have married in the same county or nearby. This can help you identify other generations of your family or even the second marriage of a parent. Repeat this process for each new generation you identify.
 * Use the marriage number to identify previous marriages.
 * When looking for a person who had a common name, look at all the entries for the name before deciding which is correct.

I Can't Find Who I'm Looking for, What Now?
A boundary change could have occurred and the record of your ancestor is now in a neighboring region. These regions neighbor Puno:


 * Madre de Dios to the north,
 * Cusco and Arequipa on the west,
 * Moquegua on the southwest, and
 * Tacna to the south.

Church records are also a good substitute when birth, marriage, and death records can’t be found or are unavailable.


 * Peru Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Peru Catholic Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Peru Deaths (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Peru Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Peru Church Records

Your ancestor may have immigrated to another country. Bolivia borders Puno, Peru on the east. Search the records of nearby areas or immigration/emigration records:

Peru Emigration and Immigration

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