Colombia: secondary sources for genealogical research

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Background and geography

1549–1550: the Real Audiencia de Santafé (Nuevo Reino de Granada) is installed. The Real Audiencia series now held by the AGN begin in 1551 (Cortés). The south (Pasto, much of the Gobernación de Popayán) answered to the Audiencia de Quito. That is why there are records of southern Colombians in Ecuadorian archives and in the Quito section of the AGI. (Creation dates to be confirmed with the legal source.)
1717 / 1723 / 1739: The Viceroyalty of New Granada is created, abolished, and finally restored. It covered present-day Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and Venezuela (Venezuela became a separate captaincy general in 1777). Files of the viceregal government are in the AGN, Sección Colonia, and in the AGI, Gobierno section, "Audiencia de Santa Fe".
1810–1819: Independence. The Audiencia’s papers were damaged in 1817, when the building was used as a barracks (Cortés).
1819–1831: Gran Colombia (Cundinamarca/New Granada, Venezuela, and Quito). Venezuela and Ecuador broke away in 1830. Files from those countries are in Bogotá, and vice versa.
1832–1858: Republic of New Granada, organized into provinces. 1858–1863: Granadine Confederation, with federated states. 1863–1886: United States of Colombia, with nine sovereign states that had their own civil laws, including civil registration. 1886: Republic of Colombia, with departments.
1903: Panama separates. Colonial and 19th-century papers on the isthmus remain in the AGN in Bogotá.
Successor archive: The decree of 17 January 1868 created the Archivo Nacional and brought together the archives of the government secretariats. The archive moved to the Biblioteca Nacional in 1935–1937 ("Archivo Histórico de la Biblioteca Nacional") and into the BNC building in 1939 (Cortés). Ley 80 de 1989 [Law 80 of 1989] created the current Archivo General de la Nación (Wikipedia). The AGN’s "Sección Archivo Anexo" comes from the former Biblioteca Nacional (DataViva portal).
Losses: The archdiocesan archive of Bogotá burned on 9 April 1948 (document from the Universidad Santo Tomás). Church records for the capital survive mainly in the Archivo Capitular de la Catedral Primada and in the AGN’s "Curas y Obispos," "Conventos," and "Capellanías" fondos.
Civil registration: in the 19th century each federal state legislated on its own. In the 20th century civil registration was handled by notaries and mayors. The FamilySearch catalog entry for the Notaría Primera de Valledupar says its books "include civil registration from 1861–1887, and generally before 1936". Practical consequence: notarial records (protocols) serve both as a secondary source and as a repository of early civil registration. (The exact laws, 1852 and Law 92 of 1938, are to be confirmed.)
Territories that passed to other countries: Venezuela and Ecuador (1830), Panama (1903), plus later border adjustments. For these areas, also check the national archives of those countries.
Regional archives: Regional and local archives exist; researchers should find out what exists in the locality.
Real Audiencia de Santafé: "In 1549 (July) the royal audiencia of New Granada was created; it was installed in 1550 (April)" (Mendoza Morales, Boletín de la Sociedad Geográfica de Colombia, 1988–1989). The exact installation day does not appear in that source.
Viceroyalty of New Granada: created by royal decree of 27 May 1717, abolished by royal decree of 5 November 1723, and re-established in 1739 (Ruigómez Gómez, Fronteras de la Historia, 2017; Toro Silva, AHDE, 2021). Mendoza Morales (1988–1989) speaks of a hiatus between 1724 and 1740; see “Contradictions between sources”.
Separation of Venezuela (1830): "El 22 de septiembre el Congreso de Venezuela sanciona su Constitución como república independiente" (Mendoza Morales, 1988–1989). The 1903 separation of Panama appears in the same source, with no day.
Civil marriage (1853): New Granada’s civil marriage law dates from 1853. The same article gives two dates, 20 June and 20 July (Andrade Córdoba and Andrade Córdoba, Nueva Época, 2017); see “Contradictions between sources”.
Civil Code of 1873 and Ley 57 de 1887: The 1873 Civil Code made civil registration a state function, but in practice parish entries continued to serve as proof. Ley 57 de 1887, art. 22, accepts parish priests’ certificates as "pruebas principales del estado civil" (Muñoz Calderón and Zuluaga Gil, national report for the UN, after 1991).
Decreto 540 de 1934 [Decree 540 of 1934]: Registration is assigned to notaries and, where there is no notary, to the secretaries of municipal councils (Muñoz Calderón and Zuluaga Gil).
Ley 92 de 1938 (26 May; Diario Oficial 23.803 of 15 June 1938): "por la cual se dictan algunas disposiciones sobre registro civil y cementerios". Registers are kept by notaries, by the mayor where there is no notary, and by consuls abroad (art. 1). The law "regirá desde su promulgación" (art. 20). Civil registration copies become the main proof for later events (art. 18). Without them, parish entries are accepted as supplementary proof, then witnesses, and as a last resort, notorious possession of status (art. 19) (text of the law, MinSalud PDF).
Decreto 1260 de 1970 (27 July): "por el cual se expide el Estatuto del Registro del Estado Civil de las personas". The officials in charge are notaries, municipal registrars or mayors in municipalities without a notary’s office, and consuls abroad (art. 118). Art. 105 governs proof of events before and after Ley 92; if entries are missing, "instrumentos públicos o […] copias de partidas de origen religioso" are accepted (text of the decree, UGPP PDF). The decree makes registration the "única prueba del estado civil" (Muñoz Calderón and Zuluaga Gil).
Transfer to the Registraduría: Ley 96 de 1985 orders the Registraduría Nacional to take over civil registration gradually from 1 January 1987. Decreto 1028 de 1989 transfers to it the Servicio Nacional de Inscripción, formerly under DANE. The 1991 Constitution (art. 266) entrusts the Registrar with "la dirección y organización del registro civil" (Muñoz Calderón and Zuluaga Gil). In practice, registrations from 1938 to 1987 are mostly in notaries’ offices and mayors’ offices; later ones are increasingly at the Registraduría.
1852 civil registration law: No verifiable institutional information was found during this research (3 separate searches). Do not cite it in the wiki until the text or a scholarly work supports it.
Naturalization (Ley 22 de 1936, Diario Oficial 23.109): The Executive issues the naturalization certificate (carta de naturaleza) (art. 13), with the involvement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (arts. 8 and 12). The Ministry keeps a register of naturalized persons with age, marital status, "el nombre de su mujer," and the name, age, and sex of children under 21 (art. 16). In addition, "se publicará en el Diario Oficia[l] la noticia correspondiente sobre cada carta de naturalización" (art. 21). The law was repealed by Ley 43 de 1993, art. 38 (Normograma of the Cancillería).

National archives and institutions

Only national archives and institutions and key foreign repositories are included. There are also regional, municipal, diocesan, and religious-order archives: find out what exists in your ancestor’s locality.

Archivo General de la Nación Jorge Palacios Preciado (AGN)¹

Type: National archive (under MinCultura)
City: Bogotá
Address: Carrera 6 No. 6-91
Hours: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Phone: 57 (601) 328 2888
Email: contacto@archivogeneral.gov.co
Website: https://www.archivogeneral.gov.co
Access conditions: Research room in La Candelaria (MinCultura 2018). AGN Acuerdo 056/2000 required a free researcher card: cover letter, copy of an ID document, registration form, and 2 photos. Acuerdo 001 de 2024 exists (29 February 2024; Diario Oficial 52.723 of 10 April 2024). Its purpose is "establecer los criterios técnicos y jurídicos para implementar la función archivística en el Estado Colombiano" and it has a Title 7, "Acceso y consulta de los documentos". We could not read Title 7 or the repeal article, so the repeal of Acuerdo 056 and the current requirements are still to be confirmed. Since 2024, documents that have already been microfilmed or digitized are not consulted in the original (El Colombiano). Remote consultation is available in DataViva.
Access type: In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account

Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia (BNC)²

Type: National library and newspaper library
City: Bogotá
Address: Calle 24 No. 5-60
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; last entry 30 minutes before closing (MinCultura 2023)
Phone: (601) 381 6464
Email: serviciosbnc@bibliotecanacional.gov.co (material reservations, reference help, document delivery)
Website: https://www.bibliotecanacional.gov.co
Access conditions: User card: issued with an ID document, valid for 3 years; replacement costs $7,500 (2017 manual). Reading rooms: Daniel Samper Ortega (Fondos Especiales) and Hemeroteca Nacional Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez.
Access type: In person, free, Free online

Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango (Banco de la República)³

Type: Library with national scope
City: Bogotá
Address: Calle 11 # 4-14, La Candelaria
Hours: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Phone: +57 (601) 484-9980 ext. 1224
Email: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Website: https://www.banrepcultural.org/biblioteca-virtual
Access conditions: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access type: In person, free, Free online

Archivo Histórico de la Universidad del Rosario⁴

Type: University archive with national scope
City: Bogotá
Address: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (static page, possibly outdated)
Phone: (601) 297 0200 ext. 2443-2444
Email: archivo.historico@urosario.edu.co
Website: https://urosario.edu.co/archivo-historico
Access conditions: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access type: In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online

Arquidiócesis de Bogotá: Archivo Capitular de la Catedral Primada de Colombia (ACCPC)⁵

Type: Church archive of the capital
City: Bogotá
Address: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Hours: According to the source consulted, one 5-hour session per week (date not given)
Phone: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Email: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Website: No website of its own was found. The cathedral’s music archive is listed in RISM under the siglum CO-B (https://rism.online/institutions/30000560)
Access conditions: No indexes or permanent staff. Access was suspended from May 2014 to April 2015. The archdiocesan archive itself burned in 1948. In 2018 the cathedral’s music archive was being cataloged under an agreement among the Universidad de los Andes, the Arquidiócesis de Bogotá, and the Ministerio de Cultura; that material is not genealogical.
Access type: In person, with authorization

Academia Colombiana de Historia⁶

Type: Academy and library with national scope
City: Bogotá
Address: Calle 10 No. 8-95 (1938 data; current validity To be confirmed)
Hours: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Phone: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Email: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Website: https://academiahistoria.org.co (domain seen in bulletin URLs)
Access conditions: Publishes the Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades (PDF online) and has a library and museum.
Access type: Free online, In person, free, In person, with authorization

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Cancillería)⁷

Type: Ministry with a historical archive
City: Bogotá
Address: Headquarters: Palacio de San Carlos, Calle 10 # 5-51. Mail: Carrera 5 # 9-03, postal code 111711
Hours: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Phone: Switchboard (+57-601) 381 4000; procedures information (+57-601) 382 6999
Email: Protected on the page; use the form at https://tramites.cancilleria.gov.co/ciudadano/pqr/BuzonVirtual.aspx
Website: https://www.cancilleria.gov.co
Access conditions: Older material was transferred to the AGN. Material from 1966 on is in the Ministry’s library, "no abierto al público," except by special permission from the Minister. The Ministry now offers a "Certificado de Naturalización" procedure; we did not confirm whether it covers older naturalizations. Under Ley 22 de 1936 (art. 16), the Ministry kept the register of naturalized persons.
Access type: On request, Legally restricted

FamilySearch International⁸

Type: Foreign digital repository
City: Salt Lake City
Address: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Hours: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Phone: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Email: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Website: https://www.familysearch.org
Access conditions: Indexed collections, catalog of digitized microfilm (some require sign-in, a center, or an affiliate library)
Access type: Online with free account, Restricted online

Archivo General de Indias, in PARES (Ministerio de Cultura de España)⁹

Type: Foreign archive
City: Seville
Address: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Hours: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Phone: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Email: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Website: https://pares.mcu.es
Access conditions: Gobierno section, "Audiencia de Santa Fe" (call numbers SANTA_FE,…), with digitized units
Access type: Free online

Vanderbilt University: J. León Helguera Collection of Colombiana¹⁰

Type: U.S. university library
City: Nashville
Address: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Hours: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Phone: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Email: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Website: http://helguera.library.vanderbilt.edu/
Access conditions: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.

Imprenta Nacional de Colombia¹¹

Type: State-owned industrial and commercial enterprise; publishes the Diario Oficial
City: Bogotá
Address: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Hours: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Phone: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Email: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Website: https://www.imprenta.gov.co
Access conditions: Ley 109 de 1994 (art. 4, no. 5) assigns it to "organizar y administrar el archivo de documentos, diarios, gacetas, boletines, folletos y demás publicaciones" for "consulta e información por parte de la comunidad". We did not verify a consultation service for the historical Diario Oficial or its costs.
Access type: On request

Collections by record type

Notarial records (protocols)

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to access
Sección Colonia, fondo Testamentarias¹² AGN	1552–1852 (223 vols.)	Heirs, spouses, children, enslaved people, and property	DataViva; cited as "AGN, Testamentarias, t. 43" In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Colonia, fondo Censos¹³ AGN	1601–1869 (23 vols.)	Owners, debtors, heirs; scattered census and tax lists (padrones)	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Notarías (Notaría Primera and other Bogotá notaries: colonial protocols)¹⁴ AGN	From at least 1580 (Notaría Primera, t. 11); date range To be confirmed	Wills, dowries, guardianships	Cited as "AGN, Notaría Primera, tomo 11". The La Candelaria reading room serves Bogotá notarial records (protocols) (MinCultura 2018). In DataViva: To be confirmed In person, free, In person, with authorization — D/E
Colombia, Cundinamarca, Bogotá (Distrito Capital), registros notariales, 1822-2015¹⁵ FamilySearch	Title: 1822–2015; items listed: c. 1898–1905	Deeds, wills	FS catalog 2813179; films 104111037, 104111069, 104111070, 104327719–104327721, 104327735, 104327736, 104327742, 104327743 Online with free account, Restricted online — B/C
Registros notariales, 1727-1930 (Notaría Primera de Valledupar)¹⁶ FamilySearch (filmed at the notary’s office and at the AGN)	1727–1905 according to the film list	Deeds and early civil registration	FS catalog 407191; films 1667335–1667337, 1667388–1667391 (DGS 7569865–7569871) Online with free account, Restricted online — B/C

Court records and probate

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to access
Sección Colonia, fondo Genealogías¹⁷ AGN	1565–1810 (6 vols., nos. 1234–1239)	Multigenerational ancestries with witnesses	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Colonia, fondo Tierras¹⁸ AGN	1552–1826 (217 vols.)	Property succession, boundaries with neighbors’ names	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Colonia, fondos Civiles and Criminales (lawsuits)¹⁹ AGN	Civiles 1549–1820 (177 vols.); Criminales 1551–1824 (218 vols.)	Parties, witnesses with age, occupation, and residence	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Colonia, fondo Caciques e Indios²⁰ AGN	1543–1809 (78 vols.)	Succession of cacicazgos, Indigenous families	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Colonia, fondo Negros y Esclavos²¹ AGN	1553–1818 (56 vols.)	Enslaved people and their owners, freed people	DataViva. UNESCO Memory of the World Register (2005) In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Colonia, fondos Real Audiencia and Residencias²² AGN	Real Audiencia 1551–1832 (42 vols.); Residencias 1550–1810 (65 vols.)	Officials and litigants	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Audiencia de Santa Fe (Sección Gobierno)²³ Archivo General de Indias / PARES	16th–19th c. (To be confirmed)	Merits and services, passengers, licenses	PARES; e.g., SANTA_FE,200,N.25 "Visita de Juan Cornejo" (16 images) Free online — A

Marriage dispensations and prenuptial investigations, and other church sources

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to access
Sección Colonia, fondo Capellanías²⁴ AGN	1590–1879 (26 vols.)	Founders, chaplains, and succession to the patronage (relatives)	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Colonia, fondo Curas y Obispos²⁵ AGN	1553–1819 (52 vols.)	Clergy and their families; partly covers the church records lost in 1948	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Archivo Capitular de la Catedral Primada: Libro Becerro, chantry (capellanías) accounts, Cabildo Eclesiástico (correspondence), Revista La Iglesia²⁶ Arquidiócesis de Bogotá / Cabildo	16th–20th c.	Chantries (capellanías) (founders and families)	No catalog In person, with authorization — E

Census and tax lists (padrones) and censuses

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to access
Sección Colonia, fondo Poblaciones²⁷ AGN	1553–1823 (20 vols.)	Residents, founders	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Colonia, fondo Visitas²⁸ AGN	1551–1814 (86 vols.; many documents from 1600–1630)	Name-by-name lists by town, sometimes with families	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Colombia, Censuses, 1777-1967²⁹ FamilySearch (originals at the AGN)	1777–1967 (sample images: 1869–1870, 1928)	Name-by-name lists	FS collection 5000123: 323,365 records, 27,088 images Online with free account — B
Censo del 1777-1784 de Nueva Granada³⁰ FamilySearch (filmed by Syracuse University; originals at the Archivo Nacional de Colombia)	1777–1784	Inhabitants by place	FS catalog 87438; films 1162416 (items 15–18, DGS 7873872) and 1162417 (items 1–4, DGS 7873873) Online with free account, Restricted online — B/C

Military records

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to access
Sección Colonia, fondo Milicias y Marina³¹ AGN	1565–1893 (148 vols.)	Ranks, service records, military families	DataViva; possibly part in FS 1429237 (unconfirmed) In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección República (94 fondos; e.g., Ministerio de lo Interior y Relaciones Exteriores, Secretaría de Guerra y Marina, Hacienda)³² AGN	1621–1995 (according to DataViva)	Military personnel, foreigners, employees	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Archivo Anexo (Asuntos Importantes, Historia, Gobierno, Guerra y Marina, Solicitudes, Purificaciones, etc.)³³ AGN	1541–1887	Purificaciones (political conduct after Independence), petitions, war	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Colombia, Military Records, 1809-1958³⁴ FamilySearch (originals at the AGN)	1809–1958	Pensions (widows, children), personal details	FS collection 1429237: 19,019 records, 723,086 browsable images Online with free account — B

Migration

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to access
Sección Colonia, fondo Policía³⁵ AGN	1558–1817 (11 vols.)	Foreigners, travelers	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Colombia, Migration Records, 1885-2014³⁶ FamilySearch (originals at the AGN)	1885–2014	Name, age, date and place of birth, occupation	FS collection 5000159: 6,802,274 records, 6,594,865 images Online with free account, Restricted online — B/C
Colombia, Bogotá, AGN, DAS Alphabetical Cards³⁷ FamilySearch (originals at the AGN)	No date on the page	Birth, baptism, marriage, and death details	FS collection 4447296: 444,274 people Online with free account — B
Reseñas de pasaportes de varios consulados, 1921-1939³⁸ FamilySearch (originals at the "Archivo General de Colombia")	1921–1939	Traveler’s personal description	FS catalog 595113; film 1511647, items 5–7 (DGS 7973796, uncertain reading) Online with free account, Restricted online — B/C
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Diplomática y Consular (includes legation series, e.g., Legación de Colombia en México)³⁹ AGN	Examples cited: 1930s (1934). Date range To be confirmed	Colombians living abroad (students, merchants), individual cases	Cited as "AGN-C, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. Diplomática y consular, Legación de Colombia en México, c. 646, carp. 110, f. 138". In DataViva: To be confirmed In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B (To be confirmed) — Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Registro de naturalizados del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Ley 22 de 1936, art. 16) and naturalization certificate (carta de naturaleza) files⁴⁰ Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores; possible transfer to the AGN (To be confirmed)	1936–1993 according to the law (other rules applied before 1936, To be confirmed)	Nationality of origin, arrival date, age, marital status, wife’s name, and the name, age, and sex of minor children	Whereabouts To be confirmed. Check whether these files are part of FS 5000159 ("solicitudes de naturalización") On request, Legally restricted — F/H (To be confirmed) — Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.

Historical newspapers and official gazettes

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to access
Diario Oficial⁴¹ Imprenta Nacional de Colombia (holdings at the BNC and BLAA, To be confirmed)	From 30 April 1864	Appointments, pensions, naturalizations (from 1936, by law; practice before 1936 To be confirmed)	Founding decree as a PDF on banrepcultural.org. By law, the Imprenta Nacional keeps the archive of its publications (Ley 109 de 1994). Historical digital collection: No verifiable institutional information was found during this research (4 searches) On request — F (Imprenta Nacional, To be confirmed); D (BNC/BLAA, To be confirmed) — Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Hemeroteca digital histórica⁴² Banco de la República, Biblioteca Virtual	19th–20th c.	Notices, death notices, marriages, lists	https://www.banrepcultural.org/biblioteca-virtual/colecciones-digitales/hemeroteca-historica (about 600 publications); partial mirror on the Cervantes Virtual portal (23,586 records) Free online — A
Hemeroteca Nacional Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez, and Fondo Antiguo y Manuscritos⁴³ Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia	16th–20th c.	Newspapers, printed matter, loose papers	Biblioteca Digital: http://catalogoenlinea.bibliotecanacional.gov.co/client/es_ES/bd/?dt=list (not tested). 2010–2012 digitization plan for the Pineda and Quijano fondos In person, free, Free online — D; A (partial)
Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades⁴⁴ Academia Colombiana de Historia	From 1902 (start date To be confirmed); issues available as PDFs (e.g., no. 282, 1938)	Document transcriptions	PDFs at academiahistoria.org.co/boletines/ Free online — A

Private archives and images

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to access
Colecciones and Archivos Privados sections (Ortega Ricaurte, Bernardo J. Caicedo, Fondo José Manuel Restrepo, Camilo Torres Restrepo, etc.)⁴⁵ AGN	Varies	Family papers, photographs	DataViva; the Fondo J. M. Restrepo is microfilmed and digitized in the reading room In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B

Indexes and derivative works

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to access
Informaciones de nobleza y limpieza de sangre (students of the Colegio Mayor del Rosario)⁴⁶ Archivo Histórico de la Universidad del Rosario	From 1616 (fray Cristóbal de Torres) to the 19th c.	Parents, grandparents, legitimacy, "cristianos viejos"	Institutional repository (e.g., Informaciones… del colegial Felipe Romana, 1734, handle 10336/5130) In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online — D/E; A (partial)
Flórez de Ocáriz, Genealogías del Nuevo Reino de Granada⁴⁷ Edition by the Archivo Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá: Editorial Kelly, 1955; ed. Enrique Ortega Ricaurte)	16th–17th centuries	Lineages of conquistadors and encomenderos	1955 edition reviewed in The Americas. Digital To be confirmed To be confirmed — Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
José María Restrepo Sáenz and Raimundo Rivas, Genealogías de Santa Fe de Bogotá⁴⁸ Publication (Bogotá: Librería Colombiana, 1928; a later edition is cited as "Sáenz 1995")	16th–19th c.	Families of Santa Fe de Bogotá	No verified digital version To be confirmed — Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.

Other government and education records

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to access
Sección Colonia, fondo Encomiendas⁴⁹ AGN	1550–1811 (32 vols.)	Descendants of encomenderos, lists of Indigenous tributaries	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Colonia, fondo Empleados Públicos⁵⁰ AGN	1550–1867 (266 vols.)	Officials’ careers, guarantors (relatives)	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B
Sección Colonia, fondo Colegios⁵¹ AGN	1558–1810 (6 vols.)	Students and scholarship holders	DataViva In person, free, In person, with authorization, Free online, Online with free account — D/E; A/B

Verified directly

Information read on official websites and in the FamilySearch Catalog while signed in, in November 2026. “Viewable online” on FamilySearch means the images can be viewed from home with a free account.

AGN: consultation procedures. The procedure «Consulta y copias digitales de documentos históricos» (from 1543) and a separate procedure «Consulta y copias digitales de protocolos notariales» for Notarías 1ª, 2ª, 3ª, 4ª, 5ª, 6ª, 8ª, 9ª, and 10ª of Bogotá, both with online requests (SUIT/GOV.CO). Email: contacto@archivogeneral.gov.co, servicioalciudadano@archivogeneral.gov.co. Use of the research room requires signing the «Compromiso de no violencias ni discriminaciones».⁵²
AGN: DataViva. The official home page presents DataViva as «el aplicativo a través del cual puedes consultar los millones de imágenes digitalizadas» (official link from the home page).⁵³
FamilySearch 87438 «Censo del 1777-1784 de Nueva Granada» (AGN). 2 rolls, no image access (NoAccess).⁵⁴
FamilySearch 595113 «Reseñas de pasaportes de varios consulados, 1921-1939». 1 roll; images only at the FamilySearch Library or affiliate centers.⁵⁵

Conflicts between sources

Item	One source says	Another source says	Proposal
DataViva URL	dataviva.archivogeneral.gov.co (datos.gov.co)	datavivadigital.archivogeneral.gov.co (home page tested); the manual points to the archivogeneral.gov.co home page	Use the URL from the AGN home page and confirm in a browser which one is final
Number of fondos in the Sección Colonia	62 fondos, 1543–1893 (DataViva)	63 headings (Cortés)	Use the AGN’s current figure and cite Cortés as a historical description
End of ArchiDoc	Not updated since 2016, in service until mid-2017, "colapsó" in May 2023 (El Colombiano, 2024)	"Funcionó hasta 2017" (El Universal, 2025)	Say only that ArchiDoc was replaced and that DataViva is the current platform (2024–2025)
Archivo Digital Nacional (ADN)	Adopted in 2017, failed in December 2023 (El Colombiano)	"A punto de materializarse" (El Universal, 2025); infrastructure purchased around 2018 (MinCultura)	Treat the ADN as a preservation system, not a consultation portal
AGN digitized images	28.7 million produced, 19.6 million online (MinCultura report, c. 2018)	25 million in DataViva (El Universal 2025–2026; AGN on X)	Use "more than 25 million (2025)"
AGN "Censos" fondo	Lead from the assignment: population censuses	Cortés: mostly mortgage loans; census and tax lists (padrones) only in "Censos varios" vols. 6–8	Clarify this in the wiki. For padrones, go to FS 5000123, Visitas, and Censos varios
AGN founding date	22 December 1989 (Wikipedia, Ley 80)	Archivo Nacional created 17 January 1868 (Cortés)	Use both: 1868 (Archivo Nacional) and 1989 (current AGN)
AGN reading room requirements	Researcher card (Acuerdo 056/2000)	Acuerdo 056 repealed by Acuerdo 1 de 2024	Unresolved, with progress: Acuerdo 001 de 2024 exists (29 February 2024; DO 52.723 of 10 April 2024), but the versions in normogramas cut off before Titles 7 and 10 and do not show the repeal clause. Verify in a browser
Years of "Colombia, Civil Registration" on FS	1553–2021 (metadata)	1553–2023 (on-screen title)	Cite as it appears on screen on the day of access
Genealogías de Santa Fe de Bogotá	1928, Librería Colombiana, 1 vol. (UNC)	"Sáenz (1995)" (Nova et Vetera)	Cite the edition you consult and note both
Phone number of the Archivo Histórico de la U. del Rosario	"(571+1) 2970200 ext. 2443-2444" (static page)	Switchboard (601) 297 0200	Use (601) 297 0200 ext. 2443/2444, to be confirmed
Coverage of Bogotá notarial records on FS	Title: 1822–2015	Items listed: c. 1898–1905	Describe by actual content
Abolition and restoration of the Viceroyalty	Abolished by royal decree (real cédula) of 5 November 1723; restored in 1739 (Ruigómez 2017; Toro 2021)	Lapse from 1724 to 1740 (Mendoza Morales 1988–1989)	Use the dates of the royal decrees (1717, 1723, 1739). Explain 1724/1740 as effective dates, To be confirmed
Date of Ley 22 de 1936	Enacted 29 February 1936 (Normograma Cancillería)	Published in DO 23.109 of 13 February 1936 (same source)	Publication cannot predate enactment. Cite only "Ley 22 de 1936, DO 23.109" and check against the Diario Oficial
Publication of Ley 92 de 1938	DO 23.803 of 15 June 1938 (text of the law)	17 June 1938 (Muñoz Calderón and Zuluaga Gil, statistics section)	Use 26 May (enactment) and 15 June (DO), per the legal text
Year of the law cited in art. 105 of Decreto 1260	"Ley 92 de 1933" (UGPP PDF)	Ley 92 de 1938 (arts. 123 ff. of the same decree; text of the law)	This is a transcription error; use 1938. Confirm in the Gestor Normativo of Función Pública (blocked)
Date of the 1853 civil marriage law	20 July 1853 (abstract of Andrade Córdoba 2017)	20 June 1853 (references in the same article)	Cite "the 1853 civil marriage law" and check against the Gaceta Oficial or the Codificación Nacional

Still to verify

Topics for which we found no verifiable information online. If you have it, please write to us.

Current hours and requirements of the AGN reading room: Hours, card, Acuerdo 1 de 2024
Date range and volumes of the AGN’s Sección Notarías (Notarías Primera, Segunda, and Tercera of Bogotá): Inventory and availability in DataViva
AGN, Sección República: pensions, service records, naturalization certificates, passports: Fondo names and dates
Archivo Histórico del Ejército / Ministerio de Defensa: Existence, access, fondos
Cancillería: naturalization certificates (cartas de naturaleza): Where they are (AGN? Diario Oficial?)
Instituto Colombiano de Ciencias Genealógicas / Academia Colombiana de Genealogía: Current existence, headquarters, publications
Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispánica / Instituto Caro y Cuervo: Genealogical holdings
Historical archive of the Arquidiócesis de Bogotá (after 1948): Current official name, address, whether it holds marriage files and dispensations
Digital historical Diario Oficial: Platform with 19th- and 20th-century issues
Biblioteca Nacional: digitized newspapers: Titles online, current URL
Registraduría Nacional: historical ID card (cédula) archive: Access for genealogy
Publication and year of V. Cortés’s article (STVDIVM): Volume and year
U.S. libraries (Syracuse, Vanderbilt): Scope of the Helguera collection; Syracuse microfilm

Notes

DIAN; Wikipedia; Acuerdo 056/2000; Acuerdo 001/2024 (Gestor Normativo CRA; Normograma Supersalud); El Colombiano 2024; El Universal 2025–2026 ↩
MinCultura, "Sedes Mincultura 2023"; Manual M-BNC-005 (2017); Wikipedia ↩
banrep.gov.co; UConn guide ↩
urosario.edu.co ("Quiénes somos" pages, 2017 blog, Nova et Vetera 2023) ↩
USTA repository document; review by C. Moreno, BCB 2018; RISM 2018; DIAMM ↩
BHA no. 282 (1938) ↩
Cancillería, "Nacionalidad" page; Ley 22 de 1936; U.S. Dept. of State, Office of the Historian ↩
Collection and catalog pages ↩
PARES, unit SANTA_FE,200,N.25 ↩
UConn library guide ↩
Ley 109 de 1994 (PDF at imprenta.gov.co) ↩
Cortés; UPO ↩
Cortés ↩
UPO (Americanía); MinCultura 2018 report; Rosario (list of sections) ↩
FamilySearch catalog ↩
FamilySearch catalog ↩
Cortés; DataViva ↩
Cortés; UPO ↩
Cortés; UPO ↩
Cortés ↩
Cortés; Wikipedia ↩
Cortés ↩
PARES ↩
Cortés; UPO ↩
Cortés; USTA ↩
USTA; BCB 2018 ↩
Cortés ↩
Cortés ↩
FamilySearch ↩
FamilySearch catalog ↩
Cortés; Rosario 1819 ↩
DataViva; Rosario (PDF 1819) ↩
DataViva; Rosario ↩
FamilySearch ↩
Cortés ↩
FamilySearch ↩
FamilySearch ↩
FamilySearch catalog; Decreto 492 de 1931 (context) ↩
Prieto Mejía, Revista de Demografía Histórica (2023) ↩
Ley 22 de 1936; Office of the Historian; FamilySearch 5000159 ↩
Wikipedia; banrepcultural (PDF); Ley 22 de 1936; Ley 109 de 1994 ↩
UConn guide; Cervantes Virtual ↩
BNC, Plan Biblioteca Digital (c. 2010); 2017 manual ↩
BHA-282.pdf ↩
DataViva; Rosario; Uniciso ↩
Archivo Histórico UR blog (2017); Nova et Vetera (2023) ↩
Cambridge (The Americas), title of the review ↩
UNC (bibliographic record); Nova et Vetera ↩
Cortés ↩
Cortés ↩
Cortés ↩
https://www.archivogeneral.gov.co/tramites-y-otros-procedimientos-administrativos-opa-s ↩
https://www.archivogeneral.gov.co/ ↩
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/87438 ↩
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/595113 ↩

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