Are there immigration-and-naturalization indexes somewhere for Argentina?
Long story short: I've come across a small corner of possibly-my-relatives (by marriage) who ended up in Argentina. Problem is, there isn't a single source attached for the Argentinian end, so I can't even be sure it's the same person in Hungary and Argentina.
Poking about in the Wiki and the catalog, I haven't found him yet, but I did come up with a group of immigration records with a promising date range: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2700611 ("Argentina, registros migratorios, 1882-1937"). Problem is, there's no name index, and I haven't a clue about the correct date. Well, before 1935, if the one kid's unsourced birthdate is to be believed, and probably after about 1905, given that the guy was born in 1885, but that's a thirty-year range, waaay more than can reasonably be looked through by browsing.
Are these records (or something like them) indexed anywhere online? Or should I be pursuing some other thread instead? (And if so, what? His marriage? Births of his children? Obituaries?)
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi This is a suggestion: One way to reduce the number of images you need to browse throught would to start with the films described as "Puertos de Ultramar", those would probably the more likely to show the arrival of European immigrants. The ones described as "Via Fluvial", would be travel within ports in Argentina, plus Paraguay and Uruguay. It would still mean browsing throught a lot of images.
Have you tried to locate any records for the child born in 1935?
What is the name or FamilySearch ID of the person you are interested in?
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@Nestor Martinez1, thank you for the suggestions.
It's hard to see, but I did link to the profile in my post: click the text "person in Hungary".
I checked the "Argentina, Tucumán, Catholic Church records" collection (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1974199), but he's not in the index, and neither of the churches in the place that's on the profile(s) have baptisms available for browsing past 1911. Of course, I have no idea whether that place ("San Miguel de Tucumán, Capital, Tucumán, Argentina") is correct.
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi Under Images there are some later records for San Miguel de Tucuman
Marriage Index to 1936 https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/image-details?page=3&place=442870&rmsId=M9CV-B22&imageIndex=62&singleView=true
(His wife Victoria Martinez has a birth source in San Miguel de Tucuman, so there seems to be a documented connection to the city.)
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I recently came across this article: https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/new-ancestry-archive-allows-argentines-to-track-ancestors-arrival.phtml
It directs you to this site and search tool: https://cemla.com/buscador/
It is rather annoying to work with for reasons that will become clear rather quickly, but there's a chance it may lead you to the immigration records you are seeking - if you get a hit there you may then be able to narrow down a potential search of the voluminous records at FS.
I would definitely pursue the other methods you mention in your closing thought. Of course, you know this, but, I agree, working backwards from the birth of children (BMD plus obits), then back to the parents' marriage, etc… can definitely help and may lead to unexpected discoveries.
Additional edit: I came across this tool while researching here (you may find other helpful resources here as well): https://ancestrositalianos.com/entradas-argentina/#Registros_del_ingreso_de_inmigrantes_a_Argentina
My best
S.
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Thanks, SantaNinfa. So it appears that the answer to my question (of "is any of this indexed somewhere?") is "yes, partially" — but of course my guy is not recognizably in said indexes, or not so far. (Either that, or the cemla site hates me. Or both.)
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My pleasure! I believe that project is ongoing, like all of our research :)
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