My father was born in Barcelona Spain in 1930 Jorge Marcel Peirre Garcia de Mercader. He has passed away

Question

I know nothing of his family in Spain, can any one help?

Answer 1

http://genealogy.about.com/od/spain/Span...

http://genforum.genealogy.com/spain/

http://www.genealogylocator.com/results/...

http://familyhistory.byu.edu/resources/t...

I don't know if the above websites will help, but one of them may be a good starting point.

Answer 2

Its a simple matter to go backwards thru the generations and a good place to start is with yourself - if you have birth certificate - you get the details of where your parents were born from this and the year you can work out from the certificate where to go next.

OK now you have checked and have an idea of where in Spain he was born and a date - you need to find out if you can obtain a birth certificate for him - you may have to do some detective work here. There are many excellent resources on the interenet and a good one to start with is rootsweb which has surname lists and also mailing lists for each country usually - website below - its possible to go in and join a mailing list and ask others for help in a specific area inside of Spain - if you also go on the web you will find lots of other resources - once you have traced your dads line - you can also go to the International Genealogical Index IGI to find earlier members of his family - Good luck and happy hunting