> ... in Spain Catholic churches kept record of all the babies born in their towns with correct spelling and that is lost now with modern technologies. I found

> ... in Spain Catholic churches kept record of all the babies born in their towns with correct spelling and that is lost now with modern technologies. I found this to be the opposite. My church record contains a hispanicized version of my name, whereas the government has the proper one. Reason given was that the church wouldn't admit certain regional spellings. Also, acute accents have been recorded in the census databases since forever, at least in Spain.