El Salvador Genealogy

Central America El Salvador

Guide to El Salvador ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.



Getting started with El Salvador research
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Jurisdictions
El Salvador is divided into 14 departments (departamentos), which, in turn, are subdivided into 262 municipalities (municipios).

Department names and abbreviations for the 14 Salvadoran Departments:

Featured Content
Today's featured article is El Salvador Civil Registrations.

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Research Tools

 * Research Guide: BYU Research Outline for El Salvador
 * Websites
 * Listing of all records collections for El Salvador available on FamilySearch.org

Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:


 * Central America, Colonial Census Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * El Salvador Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * El Salvador Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * El Salvador Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * El Salvador Vital Records Index (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Did you know?
In 1969 El Salvador fought with it's neighbor Honduras in what would become known as the Football War.

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