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3. Writing to Request Church Records
NOTE: All lines of the international delivery address should appear in all capital letters. If possible, the address should have no more than five lines. For more information see USPS International Mail Manual.


 * Unless you know your ancestor was of another religion, begin by searching Catholic Church records. The Province of Abra in the Cordillera Administrative Region is in the Diocese of Bangued. Write, telephone, or email to inquire whether the diocese holds the parish records:


 * BISHOP OF BANGUED
 * BISHOP'S HOUSE
 * '''2800 BANGUED
 * ABRA
 * PHILIPPINES


 * Tel.: (63 74) 752-8040
 * Fax: (63 74) 752-8028
 * Email: rcbbabra@hotmail.com


 * Or you may want to write directly to the parish using the Abra, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) city list to search for parish addresses. Use the address shown in the first column of the table below as a template, filling in the parentheses with the specific information for the parish. Please use the second column for detailed instruction using the parish table and map on the Diocese of Bangued page:

 


 * Write a brief request to the parish or church and send the following:
 * Full name and the gender of the person sought.
 * Names of the parents, if known.
 * Approximate date and place of the event.
 * Your relationship to the person.
 * Reason for the request (family history, medical, etc.).
 * Request for a photocopy of the complete original record.
 * Check or cash for the search fee (usually about $10.00).

English is the official language of the Philippines. The Letter Writing Guide will help you with organizing your letter and phrasing your requests.

For other religions, Google the denomination and the location. Many churches maintain websites. Write or personally visit the parish or church. Ask for permission to study their records or make arrangements for them to search for you. It is usual to pay for their help in the form of a donation to the church.

3. Writing to Request Church Records
NOTE: All lines of the international delivery address should appear in all capital letters. If possible, the address should have no more than five lines. For more information see USPS International Mail Manual.


 * Unless you know your ancestor was of another religion, begin by searching Catholic Church records. The Province of Abra in the Cordillera Administrative Region is in the Diocese of Bangued. Write, telephone, or email to inquire whether the diocese holds the parish records:


 * BISHOP OF BANGUED
 * BISHOP'S HOUSE
 * '''2800 BANGUED
 * ABRA
 * PHILIPPINES


 * Tel.: (63 74) 752-8040
 * Fax: (63 74) 752-8028
 * Email: rcbbabra@hotmail.com


 * Or you may want to write directly to the parish using the Abra, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) city list to search for parish addresses. Use the address below as a template:


 * REVEREND FATHER
 * (NAME OF PARISH)
 * '''(postal code--find it here) (CITY)
 * ABRA
 * PHILIPPINES


 * Follow these steps for more detailed instructions using the parish table and map on the Parish list for the Diocese of Bangued page:
 * Find the city you are researching in the left column of the parish table.
 * Straight across in the right column will be the name of the parish.
 * Click on the location symbol placed after the name of the parish.
 * Copy the parish name and address which will appear on the map above the table.
 * Click Zip Codes of Abra Province to find the zip code for the city.


 * Example of Parish Address:


 * REVEREND FATHER
 * CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING PARISH
 * 2815 BOLINEY
 * ABRA
 * PHILIPPINES

For other religions, Google the denomination and the location. Many churches maintain websites.

Write or personally visit the parish or church. Ask for permission to study their records or make arrangements for them to search for you. It is usual to pay for their help in the form of a donation to the church.


 * When you write, send the following:
 * Full name and the gender of the person sought.
 * Names of the parents, if known.
 * Approximate date and place of the event.
 * Your relationship to the person.
 * Reason for the request (family history, medical, etc.).
 * Request for a photocopy of the complete original record.
 * Check or cash for the search fee (usually about $10.00).

English is the official language of the Philippines. The Letter Writing Guide will help you with organizing your letter and phrasing your requests.

Short Version of Writing to Civil Registry section


5. Writing to the Civil Registry of a Municipality
NOTE: All lines of the international delivery address should appear in all capital letters. If possible, the address should have no more than five lines. For more information see USPS International Mail Manual.


 * Juzgado de la Paz (Court of Peace) or Oficina Registro Civil (Civil Registry Office) should be contacted if the online request for the certificate copy to the Ministerio de Justicia fails.


 * Use the contact information below to write or email a brief request in Spanish to the Oficina Registro Civil (Civil Registry Office) for the towns/cities listed on the Registro Civil—Municipios for the Province of Álava (Civil Registry—Municipalities) page with the exception of the seven cities listed below the second address:


 * OFICINA REGISTRO CIVIL
 * AVDA. GASTEIZ, 18
 * 01008 VITORIA-GASTEIZ
 * ÁLAVA
 * ESPAÑA


 * Tel: +34 945 004 879
 * Fax: +34 945 004 850
 * Email: 010224001@justizia.eus


 * Use the contact information below for the seven cities listed below the address:
 * OFICINA REGISTRO CIVIL
 * ELEXONDO, 33
 * 01470 AMURRIO
 * ÁLAVA
 * ESPAÑA


 * Tel: +34 945 026 995
 * Fax: +34 945 026 992
 * Email: 010124001@ajustizia.eus


 * Amurrio
 * Artziniega
 * Ayala/Aiara
 * Laudio/Llodio
 * Okondo
 * Urkabustaiz
 * Valdegovía/Gaubea


 * Write a brief request to the proper office. Send the following:
 * Full name and the sex of the person sought.
 * Names of the parents, if known.
 * Approximate date and place of the event.
 * Your relationship to the person.
 * Reason for the request (family history, medical, etc.).
 * Request for a photocopy of the complete original record.
 * Check or cash for the search fee (usually about $10.00).

Write your request in Spanish whenever possible. The Spanish Letter-writing Guide will help you with organizing your letter and phrasing your requests in Spanish using the translated questions and phrases.

5. Writing to the Civil Registry of a Municipality
NOTE: All lines of the international delivery address should appear in all capital letters. If possible, the address should have no more than five lines. For more information see USPS International Mail Manual.


 * Juzgado de la Paz (Court of Peace) or Oficina Registro Civil (Civil Registry Office) should be contacted if the online request for the certificate copy to the Ministerio de Justicia fails.


 * The complete address for the Civil Registry Office, including the postal code and other contact information for the towns/cities listed on the Registro Civil—Municipios for the Province of Albacete (Civil Registry—Municipalities) page appears after you select the town/city. Use the following address as a template, filling in the  parentheses with the specific information for your town/city to write or email a brief request in Spanish:


 * OFICINA REGISTRO CIVIL
 * (DIRECCIÓN = STREET ADDRESS)
 * (Código Postal = postal code) (LOCALIDAD = TOWN/CITY)
 * ALBACETE
 * ESPAÑA


 * Tel: +34 (9 digit phone#)
 * Fax: +34 (9 digit Fax#)
 * Email: (email address)


 * Example for the first city on the list, Abengibre:


 * OFICINA REGISTRO CIVIL
 * LA TERCIA, 44
 * 02200 CASAS-IBÁÑEZ
 * ALBACETE
 * ESPAÑA


 * Tel: +34 967 460 006
 * Fax: +34 967 460 974
 * Email: registrocivil.casasibanez@justicia.es


 * Write a brief request to the proper office. Send the following:
 * Full name and the sex of the person sought.
 * Names of the parents, if known.
 * Approximate date and place of the event.
 * Your relationship to the person.
 * Reason for the request (family history, medical, etc.).
 * Request for a photocopy of the complete original record.
 * Check or cash for the search fee (usually about $10.00).

Write your request in Spanish whenever possible. The Spanish Letter-writing Guide will help you with organizing your letter and phrasing your requests in Spanish using the translated questions and phrases.


 * Find the Spain postal code here.

With lines

5. Writing to the Civil Registry of a Municipality Practice
NOTE: All lines of the international delivery address should appear in all capital letters. If possible, the address should have no more than five lines. For more information see USPS International Mail Manual.


 * Juzgado de la Paz (Court of Peace) or Oficina Registro Civil (Civil Registry Office) should be contacted if the online request for the certificate copy to the Ministerio de Justicia fails.


 * The complete address for the Civil Registry Office, including the postal code and other contact information for the towns/cities listed on the Registro Civil—Municipios for the Province of Albacete (Civil Registry—Municipalities) page appears after you select the town/city. Use the following address as a template, filling in the  parentheses with the specific information for your town/city to write or email a brief request in Spanish:

5. Writing to the Civil Registry of a Municipality
NOTE: All lines of the international delivery address should appear in all capital letters. If possible, the address should have no more than five lines. For more information see USPS International Mail Manual.


 * Juzgado de la Paz (Court of Peace) or Oficina Registro Civil (Civil Registry Office) should be contacted if the online request for the certificate copy to the Ministerio de Justicia fails.


 * The complete address for the Civil Registry Office, including the postal code and other contact information for the towns/cities listed on the Registro Civil—Municipios for the Province of Albacete (Civil Registry—Municipalities) page appears after you select the town/city. Use the following address as a template, filling in the  parentheses with the specific information for your town/city to write or email a brief request in Spanish:


 * Write a brief request to the proper office. Send the following:
 * Full name and the sex of the person sought.
 * Names of the parents, if known.
 * Approximate date and place of the event.
 * Your relationship to the person.
 * Reason for the request (family history, medical, etc.).
 * Request for a photocopy of the complete original record.
 * Check or cash for the search fee (usually about $10.00).

Write your request in Spanish whenever possible. The Spanish Letter-writing Guide will help you with organizing your letter and phrasing your requests in Spanish using the translated questions and phrases.


 * Find the Spain postal code here.

5. Writing to the Civil Registry of a Municipality
NOTE: All lines of the international delivery address should appear in all capital letters. If possible, the address should have no more than five lines. For more information see USPS International Mail Manual.


 * Juzgado de la Paz (Court of Peace) or Oficina Registro Civil (Civil Registry Office) should be contacted if the online request for the certificate copy to the Ministerio de Justicia fails.


 * The complete address for the Civil Registry Office, including the postal code and other contact information for the towns/cities listed on the Registro Civil—Municipios for the Province of Albacete (Civil Registry—Municipalities) page appears after you select the town/city. Use the following address as a template, filling in the  parentheses with the specific information for your town/city to write or email a brief request in Spanish:


 * OFICINA REGISTRO CIVIL
 * (DIRECCIÓN = STREET ADDRESS)
 * (Código Postal = postal code) (LOCALIDAD = TOWN/CITY)
 * ALBACETE
 * ESPAÑA


 * Tel: +34 (9 digit phone#)
 * Fax: +34 (9 digit Fax#)
 * Email: (email address)


 * Example for the first city on the list, Abengibre:


 * OFICINA REGISTRO CIVIL
 * LA TERCIA, 44
 * 02200 CASAS-IBÁÑEZ
 * ALBACETE
 * ESPAÑA


 * Tel: +34 967 460 006
 * Fax: +34 967 460 974
 * Email: registrocivil.casasibanez@justicia.es


 * Write a brief request to the proper office. Send the following:
 * Full name and the sex of the person sought.
 * Names of the parents, if known.
 * Approximate date and place of the event.
 * Your relationship to the person.
 * Reason for the request (family history, medical, etc.).
 * Request for a photocopy of the complete original record.
 * Check or cash for the search fee (usually about $10.00).

Write your request in Spanish whenever possible. The Spanish Letter-writing Guide will help you with organizing your letter and phrasing your requests in Spanish using the translated questions and phrases.


 * Find the Spain postal code here.

With lines

5. Writing to the Civil Registry of a Municipality
NOTE: All lines of the international delivery address should appear in all capital letters. If possible, the address should have no more than five lines. For more information see USPS International Mail Manual.


 * Juzgado de la Paz (Court of Peace) or Oficina Registro Civil (Civil Registry Office) should be contacted if the online request for the certificate copy to the Ministerio de Justicia fails.


 * The complete address for the Civil Registry Office, including the postal code and other contact information for the towns/cities listed on the Registro Civil—Municipios for the Province of Albacete (Civil Registry—Municipalities) page appears after you select the town/city. Use the following address as a template, filling in the  parentheses with the specific information for your town/city to write or email a brief request in Spanish:

Departments and Provinces
The territory of Bolivia, politically and administratively, is divided into 9 departments, 112 provinces, 339 municipalities and original indigenous peasant territories.

Parishes
Some of the Lanarkshire parish records are indexed in *Lanark, Scotland, Extracted Parish Records.
 * This database is a collection of historical parish registers from the county of Lanark in the country of Scotland. The records in this collection can range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s. The records include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records. Also included are some records from non-conformist churches.  You will find interesting phonetic spelling. Some of the records may be in Latin or even a Welsh or Scottish dialect. Due to the nature of the records and because the records were originally compiled by a third party, it is difficult to absolutely verify the completeness and validity of the data.

Here is a list of historic parishes for the county of Lanark with their parish numbers. Click on a parish name to see information about records.

Parishes
Some of the Peebless-shire parish records are indexed in Peebles, Scotland, Extracted Parish Records.
 * This database is a collection of historical parish registers from the county of Caithness in the country of Scotland. The 9,100 records in this collection can range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s. The records include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records. Also included are some records from non-conformist churches. You will find interesting phonetic spelling. Some of the records may be in Latin or even a Welsh or Scottish dialect. Due to the nature of the records and because the records were originally compiled by a third party, it is difficult to absolutely verify the completeness and validity of the data.

Here is a list of historic parishes for the county of Peebles. Click on a parish name to see information about records. Click on this link for an outline map of the parishes of Peeblesshire.

Parishes
It contains 28 parishes. Kirkcudbright is the chief town and is a royal burgh, along with New Galloway. The county contains four other towns and some small hamlets. About one-third of the land is arable and the remainder is principally mountain pasture, moorland, and waste. The surface if strikingly varied and towards the coast is diversified with numerous rocky hills. Other parts are mountainous, intersected with valleys of great fertility in a high state of cultivation. Oats, barley, wheat, potatoes, turnips, and other crops are raised. Cattle are pastured and sheep are fed on the moorlands. Great numbers of swine are also reared, and the horses are much esteemed. The minerals are of no significance, and coal is scarce and brought from Cumberland. The manufacture of linen, cotton, and woolen goods is carried on to a considerable extent in the towns and villages. The principal trade is the export of cattle, sheep, and grain. Salmon-fisheries at the mouths of the various rivers are highly productive...

5. Writing to the Civil Registry of a Municipality Practice
NOTE: All lines of the international delivery address should appear in all capital letters. If possible, the address should have no more than five lines. For more information see USPS International Mail Manual.


 * Juzgado de la Paz (Court of Peace) or Oficina Registro Civil (Civil Registry Office) should be contacted if the online request for the certificate copy to the Ministerio de Justicia fails.


 * The complete address for the Civil Registry Office, including the postal code and other contact information for the towns/cities listed on the Registro Civil—Municipios for the Province of Albacete (Civil Registry—Municipalities) page appears after you select the town/city. Use the following address as a template, filling in the  parentheses with the specific information for your town/city to write or email a brief request in Spanish:

5. Writing to the Civil Registry of a Municipality
NOTE: All lines of the international delivery address should appear in all capital letters. If possible, the address should have no more than five lines. For more information see USPS International Mail Manual.


 * Juzgado de la Paz (Court of Peace) or Oficina Registro Civil (Civil Registry Office) should be contacted if the online request for the certificate copy to the Ministerio de Justicia fails.


 * The complete address for the Civil Registry Office, including the postal code and other contact information for the towns/cities listed on the Registro Civil—Municipios for the Province of Albacete (Civil Registry—Municipalities) page appears after you select the town/city. Use the following address as a template, filling in the  parentheses with the specific information for your town/city to write or email a brief request in Spanish:


 * Write a brief request to the proper office. Send the following:
 * Full name and the sex of the person sought.
 * Names of the parents, if known.
 * Approximate date and place of the event.
 * Your relationship to the person.
 * Reason for the request (family history, medical, etc.).
 * Request for a photocopy of the complete original record.
 * Check or cash for the search fee (usually about $10.00).

Write your request in Spanish whenever possible. The Spanish Letter-writing Guide will help you with organizing your letter and phrasing your requests in Spanish using the translated questions and phrases.


 * Find the Spain postal code here.