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Not complete
what does "complete" mean? I've looked for Jalpa in the Zacatecas page but isn't listed as a separate municipality, nor is it found in some of the neighboring areas. I didn't find other cities like Tlaltenango as well, which makes me wonder there is still information to be loaded. Or if all that's available has been loaded, then there are places with missing records. I also did a search for Jalpa and didn't find it at all.
It's a shame if this turns out to be the case.
Arturo Gonzalez
Not complete
Remember although complete records are always missing. Due to fire, natural disaster,
war and many records that were never microfilm. The church only microfilmed the
places (for the census) that were in the Archivo General de la Nacion. More than
likely these places are not stored in the AGN in Mexico City.
Daniel Méndez Camino
1930 Census
I did some searching to try to find out how complete the 1930 census is, while there is a book by Lyman Pratt on Latin American census records in general (including Mexico), I found nothing specific.
The microfilms that were indexed and available online are copies of the records in the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City.
The 1930 Census is described as the "most complete" census of Mexico, nothing I found has any information on how complete it it.
I looked in the Family History Library catalog for census records. There is no one search that will give you a list of all the microfilm numbers for this specific set of records. You need to search by locality (municipality, not state), which I did for the areas you mentioned, and there apparently are no films.
I took a look at the online films, as they are divided by state, municipality, and then town. I went though all the municipalities and town listed for Zacatecas, Tlaltenango and Jalpa are not there.
From what I can see; the census records for these areas are not in the FHL, and may not exist (perhaps someone could verify this with the AGN).
It is unfortunate when records no longer exist; it is a loss for all of us. A classic case is the 1890 US Census. Virtually all of the census was destroyed in a 1921 fire in the Commerce Department building in Washington, DC. What is left is a very small fragment.
Knowing how fragile paper records are, I continue to be amazed at the wealth of material that is available from the Mexican Catholic Church records.
George Fulton
Pleasanton, CA