Mexico, Aguascalientes, Civil Registration - FamilySearch Historical Records

 Mexico Aguascalientes

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This collection includes civil registration birth records from the State of Aguascalientes, Mexico, and date from 1859 to 1961.

For more details on Mexican civil registration records, see the parent article Mexico Civil Registration Records (FamilySearch Historical Records).

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 * Estimated marriage or birth year
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For Help Reading These Records
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 * Mexico Language and Languages
 * Spanish Genealogical Word List
 * BYU Spanish Script Tutorial
 * FamilySearch Learning Center videos:
 * Reading Spanish Handwritten Records, Lesson 1
 * Reading Spanish Handwritten Records, Lesson 2
 * Reading Spanish Handwritten Records, Lesson 3

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I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

 * If possible, look at the actual image of the record to verify the information found in the online description.
 * Use the birth date or age along with the place of birth to find the family in 1930, Mexico National Census.
 * Use the residence and names of the parents to locate other church and land records.
 * Use the parents' birth places to find former residences and to establish a migration pattern for the family.
 * Compile information for every person who has the same surname as your ancestor; this is especially helpful in rural areas or if the surname is unusual.
 * Continue to search the records to identify children, siblings, parents, and other relatives 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.

I Can't Find Who I'm Looking For, Now What?

 * Try looking through records in the surrounding localities. Zacatecas is on the western, northern, and eastern borders and Jalisco is on the southern border.
 * When looking for a person who had a common name, look at all the entries for the name before deciding which is correct.
 * Check for variants of given names, surnames, and place names. Transcription errors could occur in any handwritten record; also, it was not uncommon for an individual be listed under a nickname or an abbreviation of their name.
 * Try checking the Church records in Mexico, Aguascalientes, Catholic Church Records, 1620-1962 they can also be a good source of genealogical information. You should obtain copies of both church records and civil registration, when possible, since they do not necessarily provide the same information. For example, baptismal registers sometimes provide the names of the fathers of illegitimate children when the civil registration does not.
 * There may be more than one person with the same name.
 * Your ancestor may have immigrated to another country. Search the records of nearby countries or immigration/emigration records.

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