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Asia Philippines

Guide to Philippines, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.




 * Introduction
 * Archives and Libraries
 * Biography
 * Cemeteries
 * Church Records
 * Court Records
 * Genealogy
 * History
 * Newspapers
 * Vital Records

---LOCATION---

The Philippines is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 7,107 islands, north and East of Indonesia.

Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and close to the equator makes the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons, but also endows it with abundant natural resources and some of the world's greatest biodiversity

Typhoon season is primarily during the months of June through October. Most of these sweep in from the Eastern Pacific, with wind speeds up to 200 KM. per hour.

The Philippines also has a number of active volcanoes, and is regularly having many areas evacuated due to the volcanoes erupting. The most recent occurrence that affected large areas of the country was that of Mount Pinatubo, in June of 1991. Large areas of the Island of Luzon were covered by Lahar (the local name for dust from the volcano) to a depth of 3 - 4 meters.

---HISTORY---

The metatarsal of the Callao Man, reliably dated by uranium-series dating to 67,000 years ago[18] replaced the Tabon Man of Palawan, carbon-dated to around 24,000 years ago,[19][20] as the oldest human remains found in the archipelago.

The modern era of the Philippines started with the coming of Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 and marked the beginning of Spanish colonization. In 1543, Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the archipelago Las Islas Filipinas in honor of Philip II of Spain.

---RELIGION---

Largely as a result of the Spanish colonization, most of the Philippines converted to the Roman Catholic religion. Today the country is the largest Christian enclave in Asia, with more than 90% of the population at least declaring a christian bias.

For York cemeteries, visit the following links:

http://www.fulfordparishcouncil.org.uk/cemetery/.

http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/norman/jewbury-cemetery.

http://yorkcemetery.org.uk/.

http://billiongraves.com/pages/cemeteries/York-Road-Cemetery/168448#cemetery_id=168448&amp;lim=0&amp;num=25&amp;action=browse.

For genealogical assistance, consider the following:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engyks/.

http://www.yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk/.

For known ancestors, the following link can be really helpful: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&amp;CRid=2219259.

The following link provides references for all Yorkshire parishes: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Special:Search?fulltext=true&amp;search=Yorkshire+Parishes.