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Goal 3: Learn about Puerto Rico civil registration, vital records, and census records.
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ALearn about Puerto Rico civil registration and vital records.
- Learn about Puerto Rico vital records in these articles.
FS—Wiki: Puerto Rico Civil Registration
FS—Puerto Rico Vital Records - Learn about vital records at the Puerto Rico Dept. of Health.
- Watch these videos to learn about finding Puerto Rican civil registration records.
FS—Puerto Rico Research With the Wiki Part 5 of 8: Puerto Rico Civil Registration—6:09
RT—First Steps for Research in Puerto Rico: Civil Registration—20:40
- Explore Puerto Rico death records on the Moose Roots site.
BExplore Puerto Rico census and voter records.
- Get an overview of Puerto Rico censuses in this article.
FS—Puerto Rico Census - Watch these videos to learn about Puerto Rico census records.
FS—Puerto Rico Research With the Wiki Part 3 of 8: Puerto Rico Census Records—5:02
RT—First Steps for Research in Puerto Rico: Census—20:29
- Explore records from the 1940 Puerto Rico Census.
Record Search Practice |
Sucesion de Juana P. Manes was listed as a slave in Puerto Rico. Use the "FS: Puerto Rico Slave Registers, 1863-1879" QUIKLink below to answer these questions:
- What sex is Sucesion de Juana P. Manes?
- When was the slave census taken?
- Where was the census taken?
- Click the QUIKLink mentioned above.
- In the search screen, enter "Sucesion de Juana P." as the first name and "Manes" as the last name.
- In the search results screen, click the document icon for Sucesion de Juana P. Manes.
- Read the information in the center column of the page.
- She is female.
- The slave register census was taken in 1872.
- The census was taken in Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico.
(Contributed by Brent Bunker )
QUIKLinks
- FS: Puerto Rico, Civil Registration, 1805-2001
- AC: Puerto Rico, Social and Population Schedules, 1935-1936
- AC: Puerto Rico, Special Censuses, Agricultural Schedules, 1935
- FS: Puerto Rico Slave Registers, 1863-1879
- FS: Puerto Rico, Naturalization Records, 1897-1985
- FS: Puerto Rico, U.S, Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1901-1962