Chilean genealogy has traditionally relied on a mix of parish records, notarial documents, civil registries (estado civil, established in 1884), and private family archives. However, the shift to online platforms has created two opposing trends: unprecedented access to digitized records, and a proliferation of unverified, crowdsourced family trees.
or towns where they lived (e.g., Maule, Valparaíso)
provides access to nearly all of Chile's indexed Catholic parish records. ICHIG (Instituto Chileno de Investigaciones Genealógicas):
This digital platform, however, has expanded the scope. By including records that span from the colonial nobility to the European immigrants
Chilean genealogy has traditionally relied on a mix of parish records, notarial documents, civil registries (estado civil, established in 1884), and private family archives. However, the shift to online platforms has created two opposing trends: unprecedented access to digitized records, and a proliferation of unverified, crowdsourced family trees.
or towns where they lived (e.g., Maule, Valparaíso)
provides access to nearly all of Chile's indexed Catholic parish records. ICHIG (Instituto Chileno de Investigaciones Genealógicas):
This digital platform, however, has expanded the scope. By including records that span from the colonial nobility to the European immigrants