Could anyone advise how to get a death certificate from Argentina? My aunt lived in Buenos Aires in the 1930s and presumably died there. Unfortunately, I don't know the exact year. I'm hoping to travel to Buenos Aires next year and feel that the death certificate may help in finding her grave. Could I get it on-line? Any suggestions welcome.
Hi J Waldron, did you try an email to the embassy in Dublin, see here http://www.eirla.mrecic.gov.ar/en select English and email address is given, it is located in Ballsbridge, Dublin and I see they have a Facebook page for what I do not know.
Enjoy your visit, I was there in Rosario in the 1970s and it is a lovely place with friendly people.
Regards and Good Luck,
Pat
Thanks Pat, Yes, I tried the Dublin and London embassies and they were relatively helpful regarding the address I have but getting that death certificate is the problem. I think the London embassy has helped me pinpoint the address but finding where my grand-aunt might be buried still poses problems. I wonder is it possible to arrive in Buenos Aires and find a death certificate without too much difficulty? Any further advice would be welcome,
Hi JWaldron, firstly there is an english language newspaper in BA see http://www.batimes.com.ar/, a letter or small ad may be possible, also Google RC Parishes in BA and with the address you may find the parish and they could check their records, if you write you should enclose say $10 dollars to cover the search, when I was there over 40 years ago the dollar was king and it may still be.
I also searched for an Irish club but only got 3 Irish pub/restaurants but noted an interview with a gentleman about an Irish Hurling Club in BA so as a long shot you might see an address to contact.
If there are no central records the state may have a records office to visit as here and search the records for the year and purchase a copy, here you walk in and queue if there is one.
The paper of the time may have carried a death notice also and you could contact the local library.
Good Luck,
Pat
Hi JWaldron, I was amiss in my default to search the RC parishes you should of course search any denomination that is relevant.
Good Luck again,
Pat
Many thanks, Pat and Miriam. I'll follow up on your suggestions. Re contacting newspapers, I have e-mailed "The Southern Cross" some weeks ago but no result so far. I've just recently e-mailed the Irish Embassy in BA but unfortunately they only allow 150 characters in an initial communication, it seems. Difficult to fit a complex query into that space!
Hello!!!!
Sorry for reading this post too late. Have you already been to Argentina?
I live here, much involved with the irish community, member at the Hurling Club in Buenos Aires, .......
Any help you may still need, just let me know.
Kind Regards,
Hi Silvia, It was a really pleasant surprise to get a reply to my earlier query. Yes, my wife and I spent three weeks in Buenos Aires last Christmas and had a ball. We still remember it fondly.
My story is a rather long one but I'll keep it to the bare details. My particular purpose in visiting BA was to try to locate the last resting place of my grand-aunt, Elizabeth Carrick, and. if possible, to get her death certificate from the Registry Office, which I believe is in La Plata. She left Ireland aged 16 in 1881 and went to Queensland, Australia. She got married there at 19 to a William Mabbott and they then moved to Paraguay. Her husband died and at some point at the end of the nineteenth or beginning of the twentieth century she moved to Buenos Aires.I have three letters she wrote to her sister, my grandmother, back in Ireland. One is from Paraguay, the other two from BA. The address on her last letter, written in 1937, is "c/o Mrs Fraust, Calle Obligado 4835, BA". One letter was post-marked "Hurlingham". She was 72 at that point and in bad health, it seems.
I should say that for months before we went, I had done as much research as possible on the geography of this very large city and particularly where Calle Obligado might be. I visited the Argentinian Embassy in Dublin and wrote to the Argentinian Embassy in London. I wrote to the Irish Embassy in BA but got no reply. I wrote to the editor of "The Southern Cross" hoping my letter might be printed there but have no way of knowing if that happened. I posted here on Ireland XO Reaching Out. I thought that by visiting BA in person I might get answers to my questions. Unfortunately, despite having a wonderful time and meeting many interesting and helpful people, we came away without the information I'd hoped for. Our lack of Spanish was, of course,a factor.
We made a point of visiting Hurlingham (three times) since I felt this must be the area my grand-aunt lived in. We had lunch in the Hurlingham Club, having met with a man named Martin Heller. He introduced us to a young man named Guido who was good enough to drive us to the Hurling Club. There we met with a lady called Annette Sills who heard our story and volunteered to drive us to Calle Obligado. Unfortunately, it was Christmas time and family business intruded on her kind offer, so in the end she wasn't able to make it. We also got a lot of help from a young teacher of English whose mother was secretary in a church close to the Hurlingham Club. All in all we had a very positive experience but in the end the problem was that it appears in order to get a death certificate, you must have the deceased person's Identity Number. Of course, I don't have that number.
So, Silvia, there the genealogical mystery rests. Any suggestions would be more than welcome. Jim Waldron
Hi Jim!!!
A pity I hadn't read your message before you travelled to Argentina.
I live only 5' and 10' minutes drive from the Hurlingham & the Hurling Club respectively, and it's always a pleasure for me to welcome "irish friends". I know very well both, Martin Heller & Annette Sills.
Just in case, my e-mail is silviafleming@hotmail.com.
I think that, visiting the address Obligado 4835, to see if there're still relatives of Mrs. Froust, or of any of the old neighbours, could be a chance of getting info.
Regards,
Silvia