In this article I explore how, in El Cajón (Catamarca, Argentina), the juego de los carozos turns into a ritual that organizes the relationships between the living and the dead, and supports the genealogical local memory. The game’s aim is to identify each dead person inside a wider family network. Throughout the memory and the registration, people from El Cajón distinguish their lineal and collateral relatives, and determines the permitted and forbidden marriage alliances.  https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X58