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5 eras · 785–2026 · 1 places

Spanish Cerdanya — Puigcerdà and Llívia

Puigcerdà, Llívia. 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
785–1117 County of Cerdanya no registers survive

Before registers. Cerdanya became a Frankish vassal about 785 under Carolingian pressure; Wilfred the Hairy was count from 870 to 897 and the line of the counts ended in 1117.
1117–1659 Counts of Barcelona and kings of Aragon PARES · FamilySearch

The county passed to the counts of Barcelona, later kings of Aragon, in 1117. Puigcerdà replaced Hix as capital of Cerdanya in 1178.
1659–1716 Spain — Cerdanya partitioned PARES · FamilySearch

The Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) split Cerdanya between France in the north and Spain in the south; Llívia stayed Spanish. Records of the French half are filed in France.
1716–1871 Spain — Catalonia after the Nueva Planta PARES · FamilySearch

The Nueva Planta decree for Catalonia was dispatched on 16 January 1716 (issued 9 October 1715); the Generalitat and General Court were abolished.
1871–2026 Spain — civil registration PARES · FamilySearch · Geneanet

Spanish civil registration began in 1871, although some municipalities have records from 1837; the records are kept in each municipality's archive.

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, 785–2026, 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.

1 places on this ground

47 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

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