Each country page brings together the jurisdictional background, the national archives with their access details, the collections by record type, what is on FamilySearch and whether it can be viewed online, contradictions between sources, notes, and a bibliography.
North America and Central America
- Mexico: 18 institutions, 35 collections
- Guatemala: 14 institutions, 81 collections
- Belize: 11 institutions, 31 collections
- El Salvador: 13 institutions, 32 collections
- Honduras: 14 institutions, 26 collections
- Nicaragua: 13 institutions, 31 collections
- Costa Rica: 11 institutions, 34 collections
- Panama: 15 institutions, 43 collections
Caribbean
- Dominican Republic: 13 institutions, 36 collections
Andean South America
- Colombia: 11 institutions, 40 collections
- Venezuela: 11 institutions, 38 collections
- Ecuador: 12 institutions, 36 collections
- Peru: 15 institutions, 36 collections
- Bolivia: 11 institutions, 26 collections
Southern Cone
- Chile: 14 institutions, 45 collections
- Argentina: 14 institutions, 42 collections
- Paraguay: 11 institutions, 29 collections
- Uruguay: 12 institutions, 39 collections
Only national archives and institutions and key foreign repositories are included. Regional, municipal, diocesan, and religious-order archives also hold valuable documents: find out what exists in your ancestor’s locality.