Petatán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Petatán ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History

 * On October 27, 2015 the congress converted Palatán into a municipality.
 * For almost a hundred years previously it had already been a municipality until it was annexed in 1935 by the municipality of Concepción Huista.
 * The municipality of Petatán has a population of approximately 14,000 people

Civil Registration

 * 1877-2008 Guatemala, Civil Registration, 1877-2008 at MyHeritage - index & images, ($)

Parish Records

 * 1581-1977 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Census Records

 * There are no records for only the municipality of Petatán. See the records of neighboring municipalities.

Cemeteries

 * There are no records only of the municipality of Petatán. See the adjoining municipalities.