El Salvador: secondary sources for genealogical research

Last verified: 4 November 2026. Access details change; check with the archive before you travel. What each access type means · Español

On this page: Background · National archives · Collections by type · Verified · Contradictions · Notes · Bibliography

Background and geography

Colonial period (Kingdom or Captaincy General of Guatemala, Audiencia of Guatemala, within the Viceroyalty of New Spain). The territory of present-day El Salvador was divided between the Alcaldía Mayor de San Salvador and the Alcaldía Mayor de Sonsonate, which was a separate jurisdiction. That is why the colonial records are mostly at the AGCA (Guatemala) and the AGI (Seville). According to the AGN, it holds few colonial documents: originals from the Alcaldía Mayor de San Salvador and digital copies from Sonsonate (El Diario de Hoy, 2024).
Intendancy of San Salvador. It was created by a royal order of 17 September 1785; the first intendant, José Ortiz de la Peña, took office in 1786. It had four districts (partidos or subdelegaciones): Santa Ana (Santa Ana, Metapán), San Salvador (San Salvador, Opico, Tejutla, Chalatenango, Cojutepeque, Sensuntepeque), San Vicente (Olocuilta, Zacatecoluca, San Vicente), and San Miguel (San Miguel, Usulután, Gotera, San Alejo). Sonsonate was left out. The intendancy ended when it accepted independence on 21 September 1821 (Wikipedia, Medium-Low).
Independence and Federation. Province of San Salvador (1821-1823), brief annexation to Mexico (1822-1823), and State of El Salvador in the Federal Republic of Central America (1824-1839/41). The AGN has a Fondo Federación (1823-1838) that historians cite by box, legajo, and file (Pérez Fabregat, 2014).
Departments (Wikipedia, Medium). Four were created on 12 June 1824, and with them Sonsonate joined El Salvador: Sonsonate, San Salvador, San Vicente, and San Miguel. Later came Cuscatlán (1835), La Paz (1839; abolished in 1847 and restored in 1852), Santa Ana and Chalatenango (1855), La Libertad (1865), Usulután and La Unión (1865, split from San Miguel), Ahuachapán (1869), Cabañas (1873), and Morazán (1875, called Gotera until 1887). Tip: before you search, find out which department the town belonged to on the date of the document. Today there are 44 municipalities in the 14 departments (Wikipedia). The date and scope of the municipal reform that created them were not verified.
Civil registration. The sources disagree (see contradictions). FamilySearch says “Civil registration began in 1859”; MyHeritage says it officially began in 1881. What has been verified is that there are municipal books for Caluco with births from 1865-1867 (FS catalog 5690) and for Santa Ana from 1879 (WeRelate). The records were kept by the town halls; since 1995 they have been called the Registro del Estado Familiar. The 2024 Ley del Registro del Estado Familiar centralizes the system in the RNPN.
Losses. The first National Palace burned in 1889. A plaque gives 19 November; the English Wikipedia gives 19 December. The documents that were saved were stored temporarily in the home of bookseller Fernando Ayala (historian Salvador Cañas, cited in Diario El Mundo, 2025). I found no inventory of what was lost. Another case: the UES Archivo Central has a series titled "Incendio universidad", from 1952. Consequence: for 19th-century El Salvador, the Diario Oficial, ministerial reports (memorias), and court records fill the gaps in the government archives.
Inherited holdings. The AGN was created by Legislative Decree no. 161 of 4 October 1948 and is governed by the 1985 Ley del AGN. It was in the National Palace from 1968 to 2021 and moved to the Edificio Mercury in April 2021. Part of the holdings was moved to the BINAES, which opened in November 2023. From 1835, the protocols of deceased or retired notaries (escribanos) had to be handed over to the Corte Suprema de Justicia (decree of 15 April 1835).
Local level. There are regional and local archives (town halls, dioceses outside the capital). Researchers should find out what exists in the town.

National archives and institutions

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

Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), Ministerio de Cultura (Dirección Nacional de Bibliotecas, Archivo y Publicaciones)¹

Type: National archive
City: San Salvador
Address: According to the service sheets on transparencia.gob.sv: 17 Av. Sur y Calle Rubén Darío, Edificio Mercury, no. 1003. Part of the holdings is at the BINAES (Plaza Gerardo Barrios)
Hours: Per the service sheets: Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Phone: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Email: consultaagn@cultura.gob.sv (given by the press in 2024; no reply)
Website: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access conditions: 2021 guideline: free open consultation with an ID document, no appointment, up to 3 books or 1 box at a time. Certified copy of a personal file: $3.50. Press, 2024: closed to the public since June 2023
Access type: In person, free

Biblioteca Nacional de El Salvador (BINAES); formerly Biblioteca Nacional "Francisco Gavidia"²

Type: National library
City: San Salvador
Address: Plaza Gerardo Barrios, Centro Histórico
Hours: 24 hours, every day (El Diario de Hoy, 22 January 2026)
Phone: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Email: solicitudes.binaes@cultura.gob.sv (press, 2024)
Website: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access conditions: Open to the public. Access to the former newspaper library (hemeroteca) and the national collection is uncertain (press, 2024). The 5th floor has «historic site documentation on behalf of the National General Archives»
Access type: In person, free

Imprenta Nacional, Departamento del Diario Oficial³

Type: Official publisher (gazette)
City: San Salvador
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: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access conditions: The 1847-2002 digital historical archive was launched on 15 December 2010 (Wikipedia); conditions to be confirmed
Access type: Free online

Archivo Histórico del Arzobispado de San Salvador (AHASS)⁴

Type: Archdiocesan archive of the capital
City: San Salvador
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: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access conditions: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.

Corte Suprema de Justicia, Sección del Notariado and court archive⁵

Type: Court and notarial archive
City: San Salvador
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://www.csj.gob.sv (portal seen only indirectly)
Access conditions: Since 1835 it has received by law the protocols of deceased or retired notaries. Research access to be confirmed

Registro Nacional de las Personas Naturales (RNPN)⁶

Type: National identity and civil status registry
City: San Salvador (plus regional offices)
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: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access conditions: Runs the Sistema de Registro del Estado Familiar (2024 law). Since 25 June 2026 it is the only office that authenticates certificates for use abroad. The books remain at the town halls
Access type: On request, Fee-based

Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA): Biblioteca "P. Florentino Idoate, S.J.", Colecciones Especiales, and Repositorio Institucional⁷

Type: University library of national scope
City: Antiguo Cuscatlán
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: repositorio.uca.edu.sv
Access conditions: Free online repository (public domain for old newspapers)
Access type: Free online, In person, free, In person, with authorization

Universidad de El Salvador, Archivo Central (Fondo Histórico)⁸

Type: National university archive
City: San Salvador
Address: University campus (mezzanine of the former central library, since 2003)
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: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access conditions: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.

Academia Salvadoreña de la Historia⁹

Type: Academic society
City: San Salvador
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: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access conditions: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.

Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI)¹⁰

Type: Private archive and museum of national scope
City: San Salvador
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: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access conditions: Cataloging of the Lindo donation «in progressive stages» (2026)

Archivo Histórico del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores¹¹

Type: Diplomatic archive
City: San Salvador
Address: Final 17.ª Avenida Norte, Plan Maestro Centro de Gobierno, Anexo "B", Edificio n.º 2
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: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access conditions: Requires prior contact and a letter from a sponsoring university or institution
Access type: In person, with authorization

Archivo General de Centro América (AGCA), Guatemala¹²

Type: Key foreign archive
City: Guatemala City
Address: See the Guatemala page
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: Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Access conditions: See Guatemala
Access type: In person, free, Free online, Online with free account, On request

FamilySearch¹³

Type: Platform and catalog
City: Salt Lake City / online
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: familysearch.org
Access conditions: Free account; some images only at centers or with restrictions
Access type: Online with free account, Restricted online

Collections by record type

Notarial records (protocols)

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to consult it
Protocolos notariales republicanos (escribanos y notarios)¹⁴ CSJ, Sección del Notariado	From 1835 (decree of 15 April 1835)	Wills, parentage, property	To be confirmed To be confirmed — Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Testamentos, 1610-1781 (en el catálogo: bienes de difuntos de El Salvador y Nicaragua)¹⁵ AGCA	1610-1781	Heirs, property, origin	FS catalog 106757: film 741885 (DGS 8145893) and film 741886 (DGS 8145894) Online with free account, Restricted online — B / C (unconfirmed) — Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.

Judicial records and probate (sucesiones)

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to consult it
Fondo Judicial¹⁶ AGN	1830-1965	Heirs, parentage, property	About 1,807 linear m; roughly 60% of the holdings Closed
Bienes de difuntos¹⁷ AGCA	1554-1821	Origin in Spain, heirs	FS films 741579-744961 (Fagoaga Hernández, Zenodo) Online with free account, Restricted online — B / C
Disputas matrimoniales¹⁸ AGCA	1638-1810	Spouses, witnesses	FS films 745071-745074 Online with free account, Restricted online — B / C
Microfilme del AGCA, 1544-1821 (proyecto McMaster, 1969-1978)¹⁹ Ross Publishing / McMaster University	1544-1821	Varied	Commercial microfilm Fee-based — G

Marriage dispensations and prenuptial investigations, and other church sources

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to consult it
Registros civiles, de Centroamérica 1571-1915 (informaciones matrimoniales)²⁰ AGCA	1571-1915	Parents, place of origin, impediments	FS catalog 8037 (9 films) Online with free account, Restricted online — B / C

Census and tax lists (padrones) and censuses

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to consult it
Padrones de El Salvador: Zacatecoluca, 1783 («El vecindario de gente española, 1783», leg. 3)²¹ AGCA (census holdings)	1783	Spanish residents by household	FS catalog 753028, film 763385, item 14485136 Online with free account, Restricted online — B / C
Padrones, 1698-1836²² AGCA	1698-1836	Residents	FS catalog 33119 (films 746825-746870) Online with free account, Restricted online — B / C
Central America, Colonial Records, 1607-1902²³ FamilySearch (originals from the AGCA)	1607-1902	Padrones	FS collection 1651961, 31,443 images browsable by waypoints Online with free account — B

Migration

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to consult it
Relaciones Exteriores²⁴ AGN	1900-1945	Resident foreigners, origin	— Closed
Archivo Histórico de Relaciones Exteriores²⁵ Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores	To be confirmed	Probably passports and consular records	— In person, with authorization — E

Historical newspapers and official gazettes

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to consult it
Fondo Impresos²⁶ AGN	Cited items from 1829-1835	Names in decrees and appointments	Not foliated Closed
Hemeroteca del AGN²⁷ AGN	Diario Oficial from 1847, with gaps (for example, 1864-1874)	Death notices, court notices, probate (sucesiones)	— Closed
Diario Oficial y sus predecesores (Gaceta Oficial, La Gaceta, El Constitucional, Boletín Oficial); nombre definitivo desde el 31 de diciembre de 1875²⁸ Imprenta Nacional	1847-2002 in the digital archive (2010)	Names in notices, licenses, and degrees	Digital historical archive (URL not tested); Wikisource has some transcribed volumes Free online — A probable (to be confirmed) — Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Gazeta de Guatemala (números de 1810-1811)²⁹ UCA, Repositorio Institucional	1810-1811	News, appointments, notices	repositorio.uca.edu.sv, handle 11674/3656 (vol. 14, no. 169, 27 August 1810) Free online — A
Comunidad "Periódicos de los siglos XIX y XX" (Colecciones Especiales y Acervos Históricos)³⁰ UCA	19th–20th centuries	Death notices, announcements	repositorio.uca.edu.sv Free online — A

Private archives and images

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to consult it
Colecciones privadas: Alberto Masferrer, Santiago Barberena, Tomás Fidias Jiménez, Maximiliano Hernández Martínez³¹ AGN	1871-1943	Correspondence, family networks	— Closed
Cartas a Gerardo Barrios³² AGN	1860-1863	Senders, petitions	— Closed
Fototeca³³ AGN	1890 to the 21st century	Portraits	— Closed
Planos y mapas (Mapoteca)³⁴ AGN	1940-1973	Property locations	— Closed
Donación Héctor Lindo (Recopilación de leyes de Isidro Menéndez, 1856; Diccionario histórico-enciclopédico de M. A. García; correspondencia de Ismael Fuentes); archivos de Salarrué y Matilde Elena López³⁵ MUPI	19th–20th centuries	Biographies; Meléndez Quiñónez dynasty	Being cataloged (2026) To be confirmed — Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.

Indexes and derivative works

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to consult it
San Salvador y sus hombres (2.ª ed., 1967, Colección Historia, v. 10)³⁶ Academia Salvadoreña de la Historia and Ministerio de Educación	—	Notable figures, portraits	CRL (OCLC 5421590), not yet digitized Library
El Salvador, Marriages, 1810-1930 (índice heredado del IGI)³⁷ FamilySearch	1810-1930	Names and dates	FS collection 1584975: 22,778 records (the coverage table says 28,162) Online with free account — B

Other government and education records

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to consult it
Documentos históricos, época colonial³⁸ AGN	1629-1821 (mostly 18th century)	Residents, town council members, litigants	Catalogs in the reading room; digital copies from Sonsonate (reading room only) Closed since 2023
Fondo Federación³⁹ AGN	1823-1838	Officials, creditors, taxpayers	Cited as "AGN-SS, F.F., Caja, legajo, expediente" Closed
Documentos de la República de El Salvador (incluye gobernantes)⁴⁰ AGN	1824 to the 21st century	Appointments, petitions	Catalogs in the reading room Closed
Poder Legislativo⁴¹ AGN	Federation to the mid-20th century (some to 1970)	Deputies, private petitions	— Closed
Fondos del Ministerio de Educación (expedientes personales)⁴² AGN	To be confirmed	Information on public employees	Certified copy for $3.50 On request, Fee-based — F, G
Fondo Histórico del Archivo Central de la UES⁴³ UES	1875-1989	Graduates (lawyers, physicians), parentage	Arranged under ISAD(G) in 12 sections with a brief index; no catalog To be confirmed — Contact the archive for information on access and holdings.
Informaciones personales⁴⁴ AGCA	1539-1894	Ancestry genealogies	FS films 741894-1091385 Online with free account, Restricted online — B / C

Other collections

Collection and custodian	Dates	What it offers	Where and how to consult it
El Salvador, Civil Registration, 1704-2001 (solo referencia)⁴⁵ FamilySearch	1704-2001	—	FS collection 1821208: 3,150,368 records, 1,381,210 images Online with free account — B

Verified directly

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

Digital Diario Oficial. The Imprenta Nacional publishes the Diario Oficial in PDF issue by issue, selectable by year and month, from 1847 to 2026. Years with no issues in the selector: 1858, 1860, 1870, 1871, 1876. Free access.⁴⁶
AGN: research status. A search on 4 Nov 2026 found no news of a reopening in 2025-2026; the most recent reports (El Diario de Hoy and El Salvador Now, Oct 2024) describe it as closed to the public since June 2023, with its holdings split between the Edificio Mercury and the BINAES.⁴⁷
FamilySearch: AGN El Salvador. There are no microfilmed holdings with the author «Archivo General de la Nación (El Salvador)»; only record 65990 (a book of documents on Francisco Morazán, comp. María Leistenschneider). The Salvadoran colonial holdings are at the AGCA (FS 106757 Testamentos, 651 Bienes de difuntos, 33119 Padrones, 1651961).⁴⁸

Contradictions between sources

Item	One source says	Another source says	Proposal
Date of the National Palace fire	19 November 1889, at night (plaque at the Palace, HMdb)	19 December 1889 (English Wikipedia)	Prefer the plaque (Medium); confirm in the 1889 Diario Oficial
Start of civil registration	1859 (FamilySearch, collection 1821208)	1881 (MyHeritage); Santa Ana books from 1879 on WeRelate). Caluco has births from 1865-1867 (FS 5690)	Check the 1859/1860 Civil Code and the laws of 1879-1881. Meanwhile, write «municipal records from 1859-1860; reorganized around 1879-1881» and mark it to be confirmed
Access to the AGN	Open, free, and no appointment needed (official 2021 guideline)	Closed to the public since June 2023 (El Diario de Hoy, 21 October 2024)	Publish as «closed according to 2024 press reports; confirm before you travel»
AGN location	Edificio Mercury (transparency service sheets)	National Palace (Office of the Historian, out of date); partly at the BINAES (press, 2024); at the MARTE (historian S. Cañas, 2025; the museum denies it)	Use «Edificio Mercury and BINAES (2024)»
Creation of the intendancy	year the first intendant took office)	Royal order of 17 September 1785 (Wikipedia)	Write «created in 1785, in operation from 1786»
AGN date range	1635 to around 1960 (guideline, 2021)	1629-1821 for colonial records, and holdings up to the 21st century (El Diario de Hoy, 2024)	Give the broad range and cite both sources
Location of the originals of FS collection 1651961	AGCA (FS citation)	Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano (FS location field)	See the Guatemala page
Record count for FS collection 1584975	22,778 records	28,162 (coverage table)	Cite the main figure

Still to be verified

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

Gobernación, Hacienda, and Guerra holdings at the AGN: Official names of those series, dates, and boxes
Losses in the 1889 fire: Which holdings were lost
AHASS: Address, hours, holdings, dates, access
CSJ archive and Sección del Notariado: Whether the 19th-century protocols can be consulted, and from what date
Digital Diario Oficial: URL and search engine for the 1847-2002 archive
Civil registration: Exact founding law
Military records: Service records and pensions (Ministerio de la Defensa)
Migration and naturalizations: Dirección General de Migración: historical holdings
FamilySearch Catalog for El Salvador (non-parish, non-civil): Full list by place
AGI and PARES: Call numbers in the Audiencia de Guatemala that refer to San Salvador and Sonsonate
Academia Salvadoreña de la Historia: Headquarters, library, journal
Reopening of the AGN in 2025-2026: Current status

Notes

Lineamiento sala de consulta AGN, 2021; service sheets 7811 and 10913; El Diario de Hoy, 21 October 2024 ↩
Wikipedia; El Diario de Hoy, 2024 and 2026 ↩
Wikipedia, "National Press of El Salvador" ↩
Investigaciones UCA ↩
Ávalos de León and Torres Canizalez, UES thesis, 2010 ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 27 August 2024 and 27 June 2026 ↩
Repositorio UCA, handle 11674/3656 ↩
Silva Pradal, 2004 ↩
CRL; transparencia.gob.sv ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 7 August 2026 ↩
Office of the Historian (U.S. Department of State) ↩
FS Catalog ↩
FS Catalog ↩
UES thesis, 2010 ↩
FS Catalog ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 2024 ↩
R. A. Fagoaga Hernández, “Base Datos Family Search Revision 2022,” spreadsheet, in “Catálogo de Manuscritos Digitalizados de Guatemala y México en Family Search,” Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/records/7737253 : accessed 3 November 2026). ↩
R. A. Fagoaga Hernández, “Base Datos Family Search Revision 2022,” spreadsheet, in “Catálogo de Manuscritos Digitalizados de Guatemala y México en Family Search,” Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/records/7737253 : accessed 3 November 2026). ↩
Ross Publishing ↩
FamilySearch, Catalog (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog : accessed 4 November 2026). ↩
FS Catalog ↩
FS Catalog ↩
FamilySearch ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 2024 ↩
Office of the Historian ↩
Pérez Fabregat, 2014 ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 2024 ↩
Wikipedia; El Diario de Hoy, 2024 ↩
Repositorio UCA ↩
Repositorio UCA ↩
Lineamiento AGN, 2021 ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 2024 ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 2024 ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 2024 ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 7 August 2026 ↩
CRL ↩
FamilySearch ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 2024 ↩
Pérez Fabregat, 2014; El Diario de Hoy, 2024 ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 2024 ↩
El Diario de Hoy, 2024 ↩
Service sheet 7811 ↩
Silva Pradal, 2004 ↩
R. A. Fagoaga Hernández, “Base Datos Family Search Revision 2022,” spreadsheet, in “Catálogo de Manuscritos Digitalizados de Guatemala y México en Family Search,” Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/records/7737253 : accessed 3 November 2026). ↩
FamilySearch ↩
https://www.diariooficial.gob.sv/ ↩
https://www.elsalvadornow.org/2024/10/21/general-archive-of-the-nation-closed-divided-and-at-risk-archivo-general-de-la-nacion-cerrado-partido-y-en-riesgo ↩
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/65990 ↩

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