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2: Archives and Libraries
3: Vital and Census Records
4: Church, Court, Cemetery Records
5: Maps and Gazetteers
6: Newspapers
7: Get Help
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Goal 4: Learn about Puerto Rico church, court and cemetery records.
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ALearn about Puerto Rico church and court records.
- Watch this video to learn about finding Puerto Rican church records.
FS—Puerto Rico Research With the Wiki Part 7 of 8: Puerto Rico Church Records—5:29 - Watch this video for a case study in working with Puerto Rican church records.
FS—Puerto Rico Research With the Wiki Part 8 of 8: Puerto Rico Church Records Case Study—6:09 - Explore the Archive.org site for a collection of Puerto Rican civil court documents.
BExplore Puerto Rico cemetery records and obituaries.
- Browse the
Interment.net site for Puerto Rico cemetery records. - Search the
Find A Grave site for cemetery records. - Search the BillionGraves site for cemetery records.
- Explore the Obituary Index for Puerto Rico on RootsWeb.
Record Search Practice |
Jose Martino de Diego was buried in Puerto Rico. Use the "FS: Puerto Rico, San Juan Cemetery Records, 1888-1988" QUIKLink below to answer these questions:
- What is the death date of Jose Martino de Diego?
- Where is he buried?
- Where was he born?
- Click the QUIKLink mentioned above.
- In the search screen, enter "Jose" as the first name and "Martino de Diego" as the last name.
- In the search results screen, click the icon for Jose Martino de Diego.
- Read the information in the center column.
- Use Google Translate to translate the date to English.
- For the birthplace, open the link for Find A Grave in Similar Records and read Jose's biography.
- Jose died on 13 Jan 1919.
- He was buried in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- According to Find A Grave, he was born in Spain. (Contributed by Brent Bunker )
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