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3 eras · 1580–2026 · 41 places

Santa Fe — Rosario

Rosario, Santa Fe. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Where researchers lose records here

1889–2026 — Argentine civil registration is PROVINCIAL, not national, and Santa Fe's begins in 1889 — later than Buenos Aires. There is no national index to search and the national archive does not hold it: you must know which province, and then find that province's registry. FamilySearch filmed Santa Fe's.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1580–1810 Spanish Empire — Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata FamilySearch

Catholic parish registers only, in Spanish, kept by the parish and now largely with the diocese.
1810–1889 Argentina — the Republic FamilySearch

Independence changes the flag and not the filing: the parish register is still the only record of a birth.
1889–2026 Argentina — Province of Santa Fe FamilySearch · Archivo General de la Nación (Argentina)

THE TRAP. Argentine civil registration is PROVINCIAL, not national, and Santa Fe's begins in 1889 — later than Buenos Aires. There is no national index to search and the national archive does not hold it: you must know which province, and then find that province's registry. FamilySearch filmed Santa Fe's.

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, 1580–2026, 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.

41 places on this ground

42 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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