Bulking up Spanish Language Records at Record Search

What is the most widely spoken language in the world, outside ofChinese? Well, it depends on how and who you count as a native languagespeaker. On any list of top languages, Spanish is either number twobehind Chinese or very close to the top. Most estimates put the numberof Spanish speakers in the world at around 329 million. There areestimated to be over 20 million Spanish speakers in the U.S. alone. Seestudy by the Summer Institute for Linguistics and other studies asquoted by SaintIgnatius High School and Infoplease. Idon't think anyone would consider genealogy as a widely popular pastimeor interest for Spanish speakers, but that might change as more and moreSpanish language records become available on the Internet.

FamilySearch'sRecord Search continues to add more records, especially fromSpanish speaking countries. Recent additions include records added tothe 1930 Mexico Census, Mexico, Catholic Church Records, Mexico, CivilRegistrations 1860 - 1950, and Mexico, Distrito Federal, Catholic ChurchRecords 1886 to 1933.

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Bulking up Spanish Language Records at Record Search

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