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3 eras · 1230–2026 · 46 places

Galicia — A Coruña, Lugo, Santiago de Compostela

A Coruña, Lugo, Santiago, Ferrol. 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
1230–1715 Kingdom of Galicia within the Crown of Castile PARES · FamilySearch

The Kingdom of Galicia formed in 910 and came under the Crown of Castile in 1230 with Ferdinand III's accession; it was administered within Castile in 1490-1715.
1715–1833 Kingdom of Galicia within the Crown of Spain PARES · FamilySearch

Galicia was administered within the Crown of Spain from 1715 until the kingdom was dissolved in 1833 (1834 depending on the source).
1833–2026 Spain — Galician provinces (A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, Pontevedra) PARES · FamilySearch

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.

46 places on this ground

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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