Uruguay Civil Registration

Online Collections

 * 1879-1930 :, FamilySearch, index.
 * 1900-1937 :, FamilySearch, index
 * 1870-1930 : Uruguay, Select Civil Registration Records (Uruguay, Registro Civil), Ancestry.com, ($), index.
 * 1900-1937 : Uruguay, Civil Registration, MyHeritage, ($), index, incomplete.

Offices to Contact
General Directorate of the Civil Registry

Montevideo

Records are also in the Offices of the Civil Registry in each department capital.

Historical Background
Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths began in 1879.

Before 1892 the General Directorate of the Civil Registry was called Notary of Government and Finance.

The records are in the General Directorate of the Civil Registry in Montevideo and in the Offices of the Civil Registry in each department capital.

Information Recorded in the Records
Available in FamilySearch You can see many collections of records directly on your computer by clicking here.

To do other types of searches we recommend that you read the instructions to search for information in the Family History Library Catalog, by clicking here.

Uruguay, civil registration records click here Uruguay, Marriages, 1840-1900 click here

Extraction forms The following extraction forms were created by Dr. George Ryskamp, ​​JD, AG. These forms were designed to be used in research in Spanish. However, they can help in other areas of research, such as Italy, France, Portugal, etc. Click on the form of the type of record you would like to use and you can print it for your own files.

Baptism / Birth Extraction Form

Marriage Extraction Form

Death / Burial Extraction Form

These forms were designed to help you analyze and organize your documents quickly. They can become a personal index for your family records.

Most of the records are in very good condition, except in some departments, where they have been semi destroyed by the moth or other natural agents. In any case, the duplicates found in the General Directorate of the Civil Registry in Montevideo are very well preserved.

You can request testimony of birth, marriage, death certificates, from any department, through the Civil Registry page the procedure is also available online by lifting the game at the office of Calle Uruguay 933 esq. Branco River or with home delivery. For this it is necessary to have basic information such as names, surnames, date of the event, judicial section and minutes number. In the Uruguay 933 street office there is an index where you can consult this data, since they have a database with search by name, surname, year. In some cases they are not entered and the search is manual for which the applicant must provide as much data as possible.

The office of the Civil Registry of the department of Montevideo allows items marital status request by e - mail

Births Birth certificates contain:

Name, sex, time, day month, year and place of birth names, surnames, profession, nationality, residence, and age of the father, mother, grandparents and / or witnesses. Marriages Marriage records contain:

names, surnames, dates of birth and place of marriage, age (sometimes), residence, nationality, profession of the parties names, surnames, age, marital status, profession, nationality, residence of parents and witnesses Deaths The death certificates

Name, surname, sex, age, profession, nationality, place of birth (sometimes), residence, marital status of the deceased names, surnames, profession, nationality, residence, marital status of parents, grandparents and witnesses cause of death; name of the doctor who issued the certificate Spouse's name if married, widowed; names of children Recognition of natural children (illegitimate) This is a document whereby the father or mother legally accepts which the father or mother legally accepts a child born outside the marital bonds. This person may or may not be married. If you are married, you need the spouse's written permission to make such recognition, unless the child was born before the union was made. The awards contain:

name, surname, marital status, nationality, age, residence, sex and profession of the person making the recognition names, surnames (if you have more than one) marital status, sex, age, nationality, residence and profession of the person to whom it is recognized (some of these data may be omitted due to lack of information.) Divorces Divorce records contain:

names and surnames of the spouses, dates of birth Other relevant information. Exhibitions The exhibition records contain:

day, time and place where the child was found, his apparent age, any case of scar or signal by type of declaration that accompanied the child, description of the clothes or any other type of indication that facilitates recognition of the child.