Tracing my ancestors in Spain?

Question

my grand parents left Spain for the Philippines in the 1930's . How can I trace which boat they travelled on and where they departed from and date . Also how can I trace where they came from in Spain . They are all dead now so we have no information . Thanx Jed

Answer 1

These sites will help:

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

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rwguid...

If your ancestors emigrated from or immigrated to the Philippines, there may be a record in the Records Management and Archives Office or in the Commission on Immigration and Deportation, Department of Foreign Affairs. These records generally provide at least:

The person’s name

A place

A date

Sometimes they give information about:

Parents

Religious affiliation

Tribute status

Age

Spanish Emigration Records

The Spanish administration kept fairly detailed emmigration records. The Records Management and Archives Office has a small collection of passports (pasaportes), deportations (deportados), and foreign passports (pasaportes de estranjeros). However, Chinese passports were often recorded separately under Chinese passports (pasaportes de chinos).

Most of these records have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library. To find deportation records, see the Family History Library Catalog, Locality section. Look for the county and then under “Emigration and Immigration.”

https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Philipp...

Answer 2

The records are kept by the Philippine Archives. If you are in the Philippines, call and make an appointment to go into the Reading room for a few hours. If you're not in the Philippines, you'll need to send a request to the Archives and ask them to locate the records for you. Once they do, they'll contact you with what they have and how much it will cost you for copies. $60 is a pretty average cost if they're sending them to a foreign country. To get them translated, I always suggest contacting a Filipino community center or heritage center in your area or a Filipino priest/nun and ask them to decipher for you.

Once you find the records and the hometown, then you contact their parish back in Spain and ask for their baptismal and marriage records.