When parish registers and civil registration run out, other authorities kept writing about our ancestors. These are the nine record types the wiki covers. Each page explains what they contain, how to use them, and where they are in each country.

• Notarial records (protocols): Deeds executed before a notary (escribano), usually one register per year: wills and codicils, powers of attorney, sales, dowries, manumission letters, apprenticeships, debts, and chantries (capellanías).
• Court records and probate (sucesiones): Inventories of deceased persons’ estates, estate divisions, intestate proceedings, probate files (mortuales), and lawsuits over land, dowries, and debts.
• Marriage dispensations and prenuptial investigations: The proceedings before the wedding: statements by the bride, groom, and witnesses about origin, single or widowed status, and freedom to marry.
• Census and tax lists (padrones) and censuses: The family in its home at a given moment: head of household, spouse, children, ages, social status (calidad), occupation, and residence.
• Military records: Service records and enlistment records with age, origin, and sometimes parents; campaigns and postings; pensions for widows and orphans, which prove marriages and children.
• Migration: Licenses and passenger entries to the Indies, arrival lists, passports, registers of foreigners, and naturalizations: age, occupation, origin, ship, and date.
• Historical newspapers and official gazettes: Death notices and obituaries, society news, port movements, court notices, official gazettes with appointments and naturalizations, and business advertisements.
• Private archives and images: Family correspondence, papers of estates and businesses, photography studios with client books, and maps or plans of parishes that show which parish a town belonged to.
• Indexes and derivative works: Indexes of notarial records (protocols), roll catalogs, guides to fonds, published genealogies, and indexes without images.