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Re: Data from Nochistlán, Zac. not found on IGI


 
 > In preparation for my trip to Salt Lake City and while scouring the
family history website I find that for my area of research,
Nochistlan, Zacatecas, Mexico there is no extracted data to be found
before 1875.
 
Don't you mean AFTER 1875 there is no data available.
 
Before 1875 there is a lot of data available -- more than for any other area I've searched.  You do need to work with the films too, however.  I have all the marriage films on permanent loan, but I only have a few of the christening records for right at the turn of the 19th century. 
 
It is true, however, that there are no extracted records after the late 1870's or 1880's.  I assume that it was for privacy reasons that they did not extract them as the extraction program began at least 20 years ago and 110 years before that would be about 1875.
 
However, they did microfilm the records and the microfilms are available.  You just have to scroll through each record to find the one you are looking for.  It is very tedious.
 
~Deena Ortiz~