User:Caileigholdroyd/Sandbox/Uruguay Gazetteer Municipalities

=Department of Salto=

=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 and Sección.
 * 1879-1930  (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * The civil registration was completed at the department level and was organized by Secciónes that correlated with municipalities.
 * If you know the municipality, search for the name of it in the sortable table.
 * Some municipalities appeared in multiple Secciónes.
 * Choose the collection to look through by the Sección your ancestor's municipality appeared in, the event type, and the event years they might appear in.


 * 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. (You may need to search through multiple years).
 * 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 do a page by page search for your ancestor. Their names are usually kept in the margins.