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=How to Search for an Ancestor Using the Index and Images for Uruguay Civil Registration on FamilySearch=

Please note that you may need to be in a Family History Center or Affiliate Library to view images associated with the Civil Registration Indexes.(*)

1.	You will need to know:
 * The name of your ancestor
 * The department they lived in
 * About the year of their birth, marriage, or death

2.	Choose an Index to Search
 * Depending on when your ancestor's event took place, you may be able to search only one, both, or none of the indexes
 * 1900-1937 at FamilySearch — index and images
 * Has an index to images of cards that will have information on where to look in the digitized(*) civil registration books to read your ancestor’s birth, marriage, or death record.
 * 1879-1930 at FamilySearch — index
 * Is an index to where you can look in the digitized(*) civil registration books to read your ancestor’s birth, marriage, or death record.

=Searching Uruguay, Civil Registration Index Card, 1900-1937= 1.	If your Ancestor was born, married, or died between 1900-1937, you can search this index to get the entry, page, and record number that you will use to search the digitized(*) civil registration books. 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 entry, page, location, and record number by taking it from the indexed information. You can also open up the image associated if it has a camera icon.(*) (Not all images have been linked to the index)
 * 1900-1937 at FamilySearch — index and images

5.	Once you have taken down the event place, record number, entry number, and page, click the link that matches your event place:
 * 1879-1930  (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * In this example, we would click “Registros civiles, 1879-2001 / San José (Uruguay). Registro Civil.” This will take you to a page specifically for images in San José.

6.	Once on the page for San Jose, scroll down to the image sets. In this case, the word, “Sección,” is the same as the entry number taken from the index.
 * We would want to click the camera icon for “Sección 1. Nacimientos 1901-1911” because the event date, 1910, from the index, falls between 1901 and 1911.

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 1910.
 * 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 page number and record number.
 * In this example, the page is 124 and record number (Num) 247.
 * Scroll through the pages until you find your entry.

=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 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. a.	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

b.	After searching through the different sets, it was found in Sección 15. Matrimonios 1909-1927. 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. a.	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. a.	Scroll through the pages until you find your entry.

How to Browse the Images if You Know the Department Your Ancestor Lived In 1.	Go to the following catalog page: 2. Click the link to the department page your ancestor lived in 3. Browse through the Births, Marriages, and Deaths by year. a. The civil registration was completed at the department level and was not organized by municipality, though specific records may state the exact municipality the ancestor lived.
 * 1879-1930  (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images