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Comes out as a sheet for the reading room — what to ask for, who holds it, and every link written out in full.
This place
Where to begin
You know your family came from Ciudad Apodaca. Here is the order I would work in, cheapest and easiest first — and what to do when that runs out.
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When you run out — and you will
Everything above is what this atlas knows. It is not everything there is. Nine places in ten on this map have never been surveyed by anybody, so a gap here is usually our silence rather than the record's absence.
Do this: write to the archive named in the era table for your year, even if we hold nothing for it. Then tell us what you found — a gap somebody has personally closed is the most useful thing a stranger can give this map.
Not yet mapped. The record regions cover Istria, the Kvarner, Carnia and Dalmatia so far, and Ciudad Apodaca is outside them. That is a gap in this map rather than a gap in the record — and the most useful thing anyone could fill in.
No volumes recorded here yet.
The ground worth walking
Within 20 km — 8 places. These neighbours hold 456 catalogued volumes between them.
A register belongs to a parish, not to a village. A hamlet with no church of its own was written into the book of the church it walked to — and that book is catalogued under the other place's name. This is the ground to search before concluding a record does not exist.
- Nuevo León11.8 km7 volumes
- San Nicolás de los Garza12.2 km10 volumes
- Pesquería13.8 km18 volumes
- General Zuazua15.1 km10 volumes
- Monterrey16.8 km336 volumes
- Ciudad Benito Juárez17.9 km63 volumes
- Buena Vista18.8 km1 volume
- Ciénega de Flores19.4 km11 volumes
25 volumes catalogued here
The level below «a collection covers this place»: which book, for which years, and the link that opens its images. From FamilySearch's own catalogue. Nobody here has opened any of them. You can, though — mark the pages you have searched on any row below and this browser will remember where you stopped.
- Defunciones 1861-1880 ↗ 1861–1880
- Defunciones 1881-1890 ↗ 1881–1890
- Defunciones 1891-1900 ↗ 1891–1900
- Defunciones 1901-1913 ↗ 1901–1913
- Defunciones 1914-1927 ↗ 1914–1927
- Defunciones 1928-1930 ↗ 1928–1930
- Matrimonios 1861-1875 ↗ 1861–1875
- Matrimonios 1875-1880 ↗ 1875–1880
- Matrimonios 1881-1890 ↗ 1881–1890
- Matrimonios 1891-1903 ↗ 1891–1903
- Matrimonios 1904-1915 ↗ 1904–1915
- Matrimonios 1916-1926 ↗ 1916–1926
- Matrimonios 1927-1930 ↗ 1927–1930
- Nacimientos 1861-1875 ↗ 1861–1875
- Nacimientos 1876-1884 ↗ 1876–1884
- Nacimientos 1884-1885 ↗ 1884–1885
- Nacimientos 1886-1892 ↗ 1886–1892
- Nacimientos 1892-1893 ↗ 1892–1893
- Nacimientos 1894-1900 ↗ 1894–1900
- Nacimientos 1901-1908 ↗ 1901–1908
- Nacimientos 1909-1920 ↗ 1909–1920
- Nacimientos 1921-1926 ↗ 1921–1926
- Nacimientos 1927-1930 ↗ 1927–1930
- Bautismos 1850-1858 ↗ 1850–1858
- Bautismos 1856-1869 ↗ 1856–1869
National sources for Mexico, unverified
From Wikidata, CC0 — the national archive and the national library where the country has one. Nobody here has opened these. The link answered when it was asked and that is the whole of what this map knows about them. They are listed because a country with no named source at all is the worse answer: 199 of the 237 countries here had nothing but the worldwide services, which cover everywhere and therefore say nothing about anywhere.
- General Archive of the Nation of Mexico ↗ national archive
- National Library of Mexico ↗ national library
The sources for Mexico
National and regional sources that cover this ground whether or not anybody has walked it here — which makes them the answer, not the consolation, for a place with no volumes recorded on it.
- Archivo General de la Nación (México) Nobody has walked this one yet Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico's national archive. Parish registers and civil registration sit with the dioceses and the states, so this is the top of the system rather than where a baptism is. Harvested and its address opened, nothing more: what it holds, what is online and what it costs to look are unchecked here. - Mi Registro Civil A catalogue entry only — the paper is not photographed Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico's Plataforma Nacional del Registro Civil. OPENED 2026-09-29, AND IT IS NOT A GENEALOGICAL SOURCE — worth saying plainly, because its name promises one. It is a SERVICES portal: you pick one of the 32 entidades from a dropdown (Aguascalientes through Zacatecas, plus EXTRANJERO) and it shows the trámites that state offers — ordering a certified copy of a civil record, and checking the status of a request you already made. There is no historical search, no index to browse and no images. Mexican civil registration is administered per state, and this is the front door to thirty-two separate state offices rather than a national record set. Filed as `catalogue` because that is the nearest true class — the paper is not photographed and must be asked for — though even a catalogue is more than it offers.
Sources that cover everywhere
Not about Mexico in particular — these reach most of the world, which includes here. They are listed after the local sources because a body that holds this ground's own paper is a better first stop than one that holds a little of everywhere's. Worth knowing they exist all the same.
- Internet Archive Images, free, no account
Full-text search across millions of digitised books, including parish histories, nobiliaries and local monographs that name ordinary people. - Arolsen Archives Images, free, no account
The former International Tracing Service. Concentration camp, forced labour and displaced-persons records for some seventeen and a half million people, free and fully indexed. - BillionGraves Images, free, no account
GPS-tagged headstone photographs. Smaller than Find a Grave but its coordinates are per-stone, which Find a Grave's often are not. - Find a Grave Images, free, no account
Volunteer-photographed headstones and cemetery indexes, worldwide, with very uneven coverage. Owned by Ancestry but free to read. - WikiTree Images, free, no account
A free, single shared tree with an unusually strong sourcing culture. Not a record source. - Yad Vashem — Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names Images, free, no account
Names and testimony pages for victims of the Shoah, free. - FamilySearch Images, free, account needed
The largest free collection of record images and indexes in the world. A free account is required, and a minority of images are restricted to Family History Centres and affiliate libraries. - Geni Images, free, account needed
One shared world tree. Useful for finding other researchers on the same line; not a record source, and its assertions are only as good as their citations. - JewishGen Images, free, account needed
The central Jewish genealogy resource — town-level KehilaLinks, burial and Holocaust databases, and revision lists for eastern Europe. - Geneanet Partly free, partly paid
Member-contributed trees and transcriptions, strongest in France. Much is free; a Premium tier gates some search and images. - Ancestry Images, behind a paywall
The largest commercial collection. Strong on the English-speaking world, censuses and immigration; weak on continental parish registers. - MyHeritage Images, behind a paywall
Commercial, with a large tree network and good European newspaper and directory coverage. Search is free; opening a record is not.
FamilySearch collections that reach here
A collection is a claim over an area, not a book standing in this town — so these are ranked by how specifically they reach Ciudad Apodaca. A free account is needed to open the images, and some are restricted to a Family History Centre.
Narrower than the country but catalogued under some other district. Listed because a collection's title is not always where its records end, and never because it covers this ground.
- Mexico, Nuevo León, Civil Registration, 1859-1962 ↗ 1859–1962 1,439,591 records covers Nuevo León, Mexico 23 km
- Mexico, Nuevo León, Catholic Church Records, 1544-1982 ↗ 1544–1982 1,159,456 records covers Nuevo León, Mexico 23 km
- Mexico, Tamaulipas, Civil Registration, 1800-2002 ↗ 1800–2002 1,250,215 records covers Tamaulipas, Mexico 233 km
- Mexico, Tamaulipas, Catholic Church Records, 1703-1964 ↗ 1703–1964 813,178 records covers Tamaulipas, Mexico 233 km
- Mexico, Coahuila, Civil Registration, 1861-1998 ↗ 1861–1998 2,012,959 records covers Coahuila, Mexico 247 km
- Mexico, Coahuila, Catholic Church Records, 1627-1978 ↗ 1627–1978 1,395,378 records covers Coahuila, Mexico 247 km
- Mexico, San Luis Potosí, Catholic Church Records, 1586-1977 ↗ 1586–1977 4,981,020 records covers San Luis Potosí, Mexico 366 km
- Mexico, San Luis Potosí, Civil Registration, 1859-2000 ↗ 1859–2000 3,373,977 records covers San Luis Potosí, Mexico 366 km
- Mexico, San Luis Potosí, Miscellaneous Records, 1570-1882 ↗ 1570–1882 0 records covers San Luis Potosí, Mexico 366 km
- Mexico, Zacatecas, Catholic Church Records, 1605-1980 ↗ 1605–1980 3,123,450 records covers Zacatecas, Mexico 412 km
- Mexico, Zacatecas, Civil Registration, 1857-2001 ↗ 1857–2001 2,944,476 records covers Zacatecas, Mexico 412 km
- Mexico, Aguascalientes, Catholic Church Records, 1601-1962 ↗ 1601–1962 955,476 records covers Aguascalientes, Mexico 475 km
- Mexico, Aguascalientes, Civil Registration, 1859-1961 ↗ 1859–1961 745,020 records covers Aguascalientes, Mexico 475 km
- Mexico, Durango, Catholic Church Records, 1604-1985 ↗ 1604–1985 1,556,128 records covers Durango, Mexico 479 km
- Mexico, Durango, Civil Registration, 1861-1995 ↗ 1861–1995 1,379,675 records covers Durango, Mexico 479 km
- Mexico, Guanajuato, Catholic Church Records, 1519-1984 ↗ 1518–1984 12,344,060 records covers Guanajuato, Mexico 541 km
- Mexico, Guanajuato, Civil Registration, 1862-1930 ↗ 1862–1930 2,713,854 records covers Guanajuato, Mexico 541 km
- Mexico, Hidalgo, Civil Registration, 1861-2001 ↗ 1861–2001 2,117,838 records covers Guanajuato, Mexico 541 km
- Mexico, Querétaro, Catholic Church Records, 1590-1970 ↗ 1590–1970 2,737,274 records covers Querétaro, Mexico 549 km
- Mexico, Querétaro, Civil Registration, 1864-2005 ↗ 1864–2005 1,141,176 records covers Querétaro, Mexico 549 km
- Mexico, Hidalgo, Catholic Church Records, 1546-1971 ↗ 1545–1971 5,103,959 records covers Hidalgo, Mexico 600 km
- Mexico, Nayarit, Catholic Church Records, 1596-1967 ↗ 1596–1967 810,556 records covers Nayarit, Mexico 645 km
- Mexico, Nayarit, Civil Registration, 1868-2001 ↗ 1868–2001 568,081 records covers Nayarit, Mexico 645 km
- Mexico, Jalisco, Catholic Church Records, 1590-2022 ↗ 1590–2022 9,749,114 records covers Jalisco, Mexico 702 km
- Mexico, Jalisco, Civil Registration, 1857-2000 ↗ 1857–2000 7,329,914 records covers Jalisco, Mexico 702 km
…and 35 more.
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