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Good evening!
Any assistance and/or support as I am trying to find or locate the Birth Certificate/Baptism/Marriage of Manuel Reyes FS ID # G771-&SC. He was married to Florentina Holguin FS # ID G77B-TG2. The end state to find out who his parents were. I have exhausted all the options I can think of.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciate.
Jose Reyes
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@JoseReyes7 Hi Jose, I looked through the FamilySearch Catalog to see if there were available marriage records for Moca, Espaillat, Dominican Republic which is where their oldest son was born. I found this FamilySearch film #637002 which has marriages listed for the probable time-frame of their marriage.
Have you looked at it for their marriage? If you have, have you tried a radial search of the surrounding areas? Take a map and write a 2" circle around the parish/town of Moca. Then look through all of the surrounding parishes/towns. As you find them, check each one for their marriage record. I have found a few of my ancestors this way.
(https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/koha:16795) This is where I found the parish records of where their first son was born.
Note
Location
Collection/Shelf
Film
Matrimonios, 1822-1895 (faltan años)
International Film
637002
4988906
If you have any other questions, please reach out!
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@LoveSunshine62 Good afternoon! Thank you for the quick response. I truly appreciate it.
I have looked through this film. It is very scattered and missing a lot of years. I did not have a ny luck with it.
My mystery is that he and his wife pop up in so many documents but yet none of the 3 documents I am looking/searching for can be found.
The Iglesia de la Altagracia in Santiago I have also searched through. I believe this one had a big fire in 1863 and lot of the documents were destroyed.
Please let me know of other options or ideas you might have.
Thank you
Jose
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@JoseReyes7 I understand the frustration as well. I have been looking for a ancestors birth in England in the area he says he was born and have had no luck finding his birth. So here is what I am doing!
Do a radial search of the surrounding parishes.
Take a map and write a 2" circle around the parish/town of Moca. Then look through all of the surrounding parishes/towns. As you find them, check each one for their marriage record. I have found that other parishes have baptisms of children living in the same town that my ancestor came from. That is how I am searching now.
Also, see if the FamilySearch WIKI links for this area may help you out!
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Moca,_Espaillat,_Dominican_Republic_Genealogy
There are many different helps for your region here, look at the guideline on the left, and through all of the links on the right.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Espaillat,_Dominican_Republic_Genealogy
I hope that you will find some helps within the above links!
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