Project Argentina

Profile managers: Cristina Corbellani [send private message], Steve Thomas [send private message], and Anonymous Alonso [send private message]

¡Welcome to Project Argentina! (para la versión en español: click aquí)

Project Argentina is a sub-project of Project Latin_America and it's meant as a reference for all Wikitree activities related to genealogy and family history of the Argentine Republic.

Goals

The mission of this project is to collaborate in Wikitree with profiles of persons and families directly related to Argentina, editing and enhancing those profiles, citing reliable sources and giving help and support to those members of Wikitree working with profiles or family trees related to this country. Project Argentina is open to anybody interested in Argentina's history and/or genealogy.

Tasks

These are a few of the tasks to do. We'll be working on them and we'll welcome any help.

• Keep up to date the Resources and The Team sections
• Enhance Argentine profiles to match the naming, location, and sourcing standards of Wikitree
• Keep track of and complete profiles of Argentine notables

Resources

Research Tips

• Argentine women have almost always kept their maiden name along their lives
• There are no "middle names" in the anglo-saxon way, only "first name(s)" and "last name(s)"
• Even if in colonial times the last name of the offspring took the traditional form "(father's last name) y (mother's last name)", by mid-1800' the "y" was dropped and combined last names were used mostly by the upper classes. In civil registers and church books the children were given only the father's last name for the most part.
• Foreign language first names were translated to their Spanish equivalent in official documentation, but not the last names. Nevertheless the spelling of the last names could be changed by mistake or to a phonetic equivalent. You can access some naming equivalence tables here: Translations_of_male_given_names_in_multiple_languages and Translations_of_female_given_names_in_multiple_languages.
• The City of Buenos Aires was the capitol city of Buenos Aires Province up to 1880. In that year, city limits were redefined (absorbing a couple of other limiting towns) and it was appointed as "Capital Federal", Capitol City of the Argentine Republic. A new city, La Plata, was founded to serve as capitol of province Buenos Aires. After 1995 the city of Buenos Aires' official name became "Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires" (CABA) but the names "Capital Federal" and "Buenos Aires" are still being use in common speech.
• During the decades of massive european receptive migration, Buenos Aires was the main but not the only port of arrival. Many immigrants arrived to Montevideo (Uruguay) and then continued by river boats on to Buenos Aires or Rosario. Some even disembarked in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and continued by land.

Reliable Resources

Vital Data Sources

• FamilySearch: The main source of vital data (birth acts, marriage data, census records, etc, civil and religious as well) for Argentina is the LDSC database. But the only results that appear when you use the Search/Register option is for indexed resources. To access not-indexed resources you need to use the Search/Catalogue or the Search/Images option and enter a location of your interest.
• Jewish Genealogy in Argentina This site includes a database of Jewish cemeteries in Argentina's Jewish farming colonies and some passenger lists of immigrants of Jewish religion.

Migration Data Sources

• AGN200 It's the immigrant's registry at the General National Archive (Archivo General de la Nación, AGN), under digitalization process. Access is granted only to Argentine citizens and residents. (ask for help!)
• Entrada de Pasajeros durante el s.XIX Passenger list of arrivals to Buenos Aires during the 1800'.
• CISEI Database of migrant Italians departing from Genoa to several countries.
• Registros de inmigración y emigración : Montevideo, Montevideo (departamento), Uruguay, 1805-1872 Montevideo's registry of immigration and emigration from 1805 to 1872
• Uruguay, listas de pasajeros, 1888-1980 Passenger lists from Uruguay, 1888-1980
• (under construction)

The Team

• Cristina Corbellani
• Mindy Silva
• Gonzalo Alonso
• Steve Thomas (category proficient)

How to join?

Would you like to join us? If so, please leave a comment on this page or answer the G2G Proyecto Argentina and/or G2G Project Latin America Thank you!