User:Caileigholdroyd/Sandbox/Searching Uruguay, Civil Registration Index Card, 1900-1937

=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 below, then clivk the locality 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.




 * 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 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.

[PUT CATEGORY]