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2 eras · 1230–2026 · 278 places

Western Castile and León — León, Zamora, Salamanca

León, Zamora, Salamanca, Astorga. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1230–1833 Kingdom of León, permanently united with Castile on 10 Dec 1230 PARES · FamilySearch

The Kingdom of León was founded in 910 and permanently united with Castile on 10 December 1230; a brief reunion also occurred in 1301.
1833–2026 Spain — provinces of León, Zamora and Salamanca (1833) PARES · FamilySearch

The 1833 division created the modern provinces of León, Zamora and Salamanca. The civil register law of 20 June 1870 took effect on 1 January 1871; earlier baptisms, marriages and burials are in parish books.

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

See the whole span, 1230–2026, on the map →

The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.

278 places on this ground

The 200 carrying the most collections are listed; 78 more stand on this ground. Every place has them all.

47 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

Ranked with the regional ones first — a collection for a province is usually a better lead than a national index, though the national index is often where a name is actually written down. A free account opens the images.

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