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Searching for Puerto Rico birth records, Puerto Rico census records, Puerto Rico marriage records, or Puerto Rico death records? How about a free genealogy search? Find help for your family history search and building your family tree. |
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Puerto Rico Genealogy Databases
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Puerto Rico Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Puerto Rico vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Puerto Rico vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Puerto Rico ancestors using Puerto Rico census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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Puerto Rico Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Puerto Rico) Event: Birth or death Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: Central office has had records since July 22, 1931. Copies of earlier records may be obtained by writing to Local Registrar (Registrador Demografico) in municipality where event occurred or by writing to central office for information. Money order should be made payable to Secretary of the Treasury. Personal checks are not accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (787) 728-7980. All applications must be accompanied by a photocopy of an identification card with picture. Example: Driver's license or Passport (not expired). Event: Marriage (commonwealth) Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Event: Divorce (commonwealth) Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Event: Divorce (court) Address: See remarks Remarks: Superior Court where divorce was granted. |
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