Records of Hilma Contreras on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Hilma Contreras and the Contreras Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Contreras Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Contreras family tree.

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Miscellaneous Contreras Databases

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Some Famous People called Hilma Contreras

Hilma Contreras

Hilma Contreras Castillo (December 8, 1913 – January 15, 2006) was a Dominican writer, born in San Francisco de Macorís.

She was educated in Paris, where she studied French and English, as well as literature and archaeology. She returned to the Dominican Republic in 1933. In 1937, at the encouragement of fellow writer Juan Bosch, she began writing stories, which were published in various newspapers.

In 2002, she became the first woman to receive the National Literature Award.

Contreras never married or had children, and died in her home town in 2006.

Source: Hilma Contreras, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Contreras

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