User:Caileigholdroyd/Sandbox/Searching through the Uruguay Civil Registration, 1879-1930 index

=Searching through the Uruguay Civil Registration, 1879-1930 index= 1.	If your Ancestor was born, married, or died between 1879-1930, you can search this index to get the entry, page, and record number that you will use to search the digitized(*) civil registration books.
 * Some records may already be linked to the index. These instructions will help you if your ancestor’s record hasn’t been linked yet.

2.	Enter your Ancestor’s name, event (birth, marriage, or death) year, and place. Sometimes the less information you put, the better the search engine works. If you don’t yield any results, try taking out the place or event year and see if you can find a record that may be your ancestor. Then press search. 3.	You will come to a results page. Click on the names of the ones you believe are your ancestor. 4.	Clicking a name will bring up the record information. This is where you can get the event date, event type, location, and certificate number by taking it from the indexed information. You can also open up the image associated if it has a camera icon. 5.	Once you have taken down the event place, record number, entry number, and page, click the link below, then click the locality that matches your event place:
 * 1879-1930  (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * In this example, we would click “Registros civiles, 1879-2001 / Montevideo (Montevideo). Registro Civil.” This will take you to a page specifically for images in Montevideo.

6.	On this page you will need to select the correct book collections. From this, we know that it is a Marriage Registration, or “Matrimonios” in Spanish. We then need to find the correct year range that would include 1914.
 * In this case, there are multiple places that the record could appear in, so you may need to search multiple sets for a Marriage between Maria Sanchez de los Santos and Angel Vittola Fontana, Certificate Number 134


 * After searching through the different sets, it was found in Sección 15. Matrimonios 1909-1927.


 * Note: Some of the images you need to search through are grouped into "Items." You can tell if this is the case if the "Film" Column in the catalog looks like this:
 * This means that the records needed in "Sección 7. Matrimonios 1901-1930 Sección 8. Matrimonios 1881-1885 Sección 9. Matrimonios 1882-1885 Sección 10. Matrimonios 1880-1886" will only be found in items 1-5. Item numbers are found at the beginning and end of each digitized roll. The big number at the bottom right of the image is the item number. It looks like this:



7.	Clicking the camera icon will open the film viewer(*). You will need to scroll through the grid view of the film viewer to get to the book that contains the year of the event you are searching for. In this case, the book year we want is 1914.
 * You can tell that a new book is beginning because the microfilmer takes a picture of the outside of the book and the first page. You can double click on the image to zoom in and see if you’ve reached the correct year.

8.	Once you have confirmed you are in the correct event year, you can start looking for the record number, names, and dates of the event.
 * Scroll through the pages until you find your entry.



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