Thank you so much for this information. I am not quite
clear on one thing -- the Catholic churches *should* have
birth records from the 1700's? In most countries with
which I have experience, even after civil registry, the
church kept records. Is this true in Mexico?
Kim
On Fri, February 17, 2006 2:47 pm, arturoramos2 said:
> The Catholic Church records were the vital records in New
> Spain, New Galicia and then Mexico until the late 1800s
> when a secular civil registry was established and even
> then, it took some communities a while before they
> started complying with the government's decrees that all
> births and marriages had to be registered through civil
> authorities.
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