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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 Villa Guerrero. 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 Villa Guerrero 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 18 km — 8 places. These neighbours hold 548 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.
- Tenancingo de Degollado5.3 km44 volumes
- Coatepec Harinas11.3 km71 volumes
- Ixtapan de la Sal13.7 km91 volumes
- Joquicingo15.0 km17 volumes
- Malinalco15.3 km114 volumes
- Zacatones15.3 km13 volumes
- Tenango de Arista16.7 km179 volumes
- San Gaspar Tonatico17.5 km19 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 1908-1919 ↗ 1908–1919
- Defunciones 1920-1933 ↗ 1920–1933
- Defunciones 1934-1947 ↗ 1934–1947
- Defunciones 1948-1975 ↗ 1948–1975
- Defunciones 1976-1999 ↗ 1976–1999
- Matrimonios 1905-1917 ↗ 1905–1917
- Matrimonios 1918-1924 ↗ 1918–1924
- Matrimonios 1925-1936 ↗ 1925–1936
- Matrimonios 1936-1950 ↗ 1936–1950
- Matrimonios, defunciones 1900-1932 ↗ 1900–1932
- Nacimientos 1900-1904 ↗ 1900–1904
- Nacimientos 1904-1910 ↗ 1904–1910
- Nacimientos 1910-1918 ↗ 1910–1918
- Nacimientos 1919-1925 ↗ 1919–1925
- Nacimientos, matrimonios 1900-1930 ↗ 1900–1930
- Defunciones 1868-1872 ↗ 1868–1872
- Defunciones 1873-1882 ↗ 1873–1882
- Defunciones 1883-1890 ↗ 1883–1890
- Defunciones 1891-1896 ↗ 1891–1896
- Defunciones 1897-1900 ↗ 1897–1900
- Defunciones 1901-1906 ↗ 1901–1906
- Defunciones 1907-1912 ↗ 1907–1912
- Defunciones 1913-1916 ↗ 1913–1916
- Defunciones 1917-1922 ↗ 1917–1922
- Defunciones 1923-1928 ↗ 1923–1928
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 Villa Guerrero. 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, México, Civil Registration, 1861-1941 ↗ 1861–1941 3,067,713 records covers State of Mexico, Mexico 44 km
- Mexico, Morelos, Catholic Church Records, 1598-1994 ↗ 1598–1994 945,013 records covers Morelos, Mexico 65 km
- Mexico, Morelos, Civil Registration, 1861-1920 ↗ 1861–1920 92,407 records covers Morelos, Mexico 65 km
- Mexico, México, Catholic Church Records, 1567-1970 ↗ 1566–1970 9,291,031 records covers Mexico City, Mexico 74 km
- Mexico, Distrito Federal, Civil Registration, 1832-2006 ↗ 1832–2006 6,718,799 records covers Mexico City, Mexico 74 km
- Mexico, Distrito Federal, Catholic Church Records, 1514-1970 ↗ 1513–1970 4,621,624 records covers Mexico City, Mexico 74 km
- Mexico, Guerrero, Catholic Church Records, 1576-1979 ↗ 1575–1979 2,582,454 records covers Guerrero, Mexico 149 km
- Mexico, Guerrero, Civil Registration, 1860-1996 ↗ 1860–1996 1,734,644 records covers Guerrero, Mexico 149 km
- Mexico, Puebla, Catholic Church Records, 1545-2009 ↗ 1544–2009 7,154,158 records covers Puebla, Mexico 150 km
- Mexico, Puebla, Civil Registration, 1861-1956 ↗ 1861–1956 2,965,253 records covers Puebla, Mexico 150 km
- Mexico, Tlaxcala, Catholic Church Records, 1576-1994 ↗ 1575–1994 1,812,937 records covers Tlaxcala, Mexico 163 km
- Mexico, Tlaxcala, Civil Registration, 1867-1950 ↗ 1867–1950 522,456 records covers Tlaxcala, Mexico 163 km
- Mexico, Hidalgo, Catholic Church Records, 1546-1971 ↗ 1545–1971 5,103,959 records covers Hidalgo, Mexico 184 km
- Mexico, Querétaro, Catholic Church Records, 1590-1970 ↗ 1590–1970 2,737,274 records covers Querétaro, Mexico 211 km
- Mexico, Querétaro, Civil Registration, 1864-2005 ↗ 1864–2005 1,141,176 records covers Querétaro, Mexico 211 km
- Mexico, Michoacán, Catholic Church Records, 1555-1996 ↗ 1554–1996 7,178,319 records covers Michoacan, Mexico 239 km
- Mexico, Michoacán, Civil Registration, 1859-1940 ↗ 1859–1940 2,411,756 records covers Michoacan, Mexico 239 km
- Mexico, Guanajuato, Catholic Church Records, 1519-1984 ↗ 1518–1984 12,344,060 records covers Guanajuato, Mexico 285 km
- Mexico, Guanajuato, Civil Registration, 1862-1930 ↗ 1862–1930 2,713,854 records covers Guanajuato, Mexico 285 km
- Mexico, Hidalgo, Civil Registration, 1861-2001 ↗ 1861–2001 2,117,838 records covers Guanajuato, Mexico 285 km
- Mexico, Veracruz, Catholic Church Records, 1590-1978 ↗ 1590–1978 4,001,945 records covers Veracruz, Mexico 338 km
- Mexico, Veracruz, Civil Registration, 1821-1963 ↗ 1821–1963 106,886 records covers Veracruz, Mexico 338 km
- Mexico, Oaxaca, Catholic Church Records, 1559-2022 ↗ 1558–2022 6,880,559 records covers Oaxaca, Mexico 397 km
- Mexico, Oaxaca, Civil Registration, 1861-2002 ↗ 1861–2002 5,179,303 records covers Oaxaca, Mexico 397 km
- Mexico, San Luis Potosí, Catholic Church Records, 1586-1977 ↗ 1586–1977 4,981,020 records covers San Luis Potosí, Mexico 403 km
…and 35 more.
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