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How do you go through notarial archives?

A notarial deed, handwritten or typewritten, is transcribed as written, legal vocabulary included, then indexed by the parties’ names and the deed’s date.

Legal vocabulary, kept as is

No rewording: the transcribed text keeps the original deed’s formulas and terms.

The parties, indexed

Every person named in a deed — seller, buyer, witness — is recorded and searchable across the whole fonds.

An old language translated if needed

A deed in Latin or a foreign language is transcribed then translated into your language, page by page.

Deeds of every kind

  • Deeds of sale and purchase of property
  • Wills and post-mortem inventories
  • Marriage contracts and estate divisions
  • Leases and partnership deeds
  • Powers of attorney and receipts
  • Notarial registers and minute-books
Typewritten letter in Catalan from the Ajuntament de Barcelona to Felip Pedrell, Barcelona, 9 December 1920 · Biblioteca de Catalunya, Fons Felip Pedrell (M 964), Public Domain Mark 1.0
Typewritten, 1920 — Biblioteca de Catalunya

The account takes a minute to open, a hundred pages free for a year.

Is old legal vocabulary recognised properly?

The text is transcribed as written, original formulas and terms included; nothing is reworded or modernised.

What about a deed written in Latin?

It’s transcribed then translated into your language like any other language in the fonds.

How do you find every deed naming the same family?

A name search covers the whole deposited fonds, deeds and minute-books alike.

What does a minute-book of several thousand deeds cost?

Expert, €99.99 incl. VAT a year: 20,000 credits, i.e. 10,000 deeds transcribed or 6,666 translated, 40,000 pages kept; beyond that, €24.99 incl. VAT per 5,000 extra credits. The detail.

See it on your own pages

A hundred pages transcribed and translated, for a year, no card required.