Civil-->Mid1800'sBirth-Marriage/ChurchEarlierBaptism-Marriage

[Joseph Puentes <makas@...>]

Kim Raine wrote:

> 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?
Not birth records* (they would be civil records and not for that far 
back), but you can find baptism records, marriage records, death records 
and some misc. others going back into the 1700's depending on the 
specific area you are researching. some of the areas are poorly recorded 
while others have magnificient records going back to the early 1700's 
and even farther back.
*well in a sense they were birth records in that they usually listed 
when the child was born "de tres dias nacido OR .nacido el veinte dos 
del mes corriente." So these baptism records listed the date of the 
baptism and gave the day the child was born (usually).
joseph