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How to Find and Understand Catholic Church Records in Mexico

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La Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel Despite being an overwhelmingly Catholic nation, Mexico has had a sometimes fraught relationship with the Church. But Catholic records are some of the longest-taken documents in Mexican genealogy—and, indeed, in the Western hemisphere—dating all the way back to the 1500s in some cases. Understanding the history of Mexico and View Website VIP Subscription

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