Miranda, Zulia, Venezuela Genealogy

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

History

 * By the fifteenth century, the inhabitants of what is now the municipality were groups of Paraujano Indians, specifically in the area of ​​Los Olivitos and small communes on the island of Zapara.
 * It is considered that in 1600 it was Juan Pacheco Maldonado who founded it with the name of Villa de Nuestra Señora de Altagracia.
 * The Miranda district was a coastal area with few inhabitants and isolated from the rest of the country, its only communication channel was Lake Maracaibo. In 1864 the province of Maracaibo was renamed Zulia state, the Altagracia canton, preserved its territory unchanged during the multiple ups and downs of annexations, mergers and divisions that the Zulia state went through in the 19th century, with the only annexation of the parish Quisiro democracy in 1883.
 * In 1884 the territorial division of the state of Zulia was modified, creating the Bolívar District with its capital in Santa Rita, leaving the Miranda district with the same territory as the current Miranda municipality.
 * In the 1960s when the construction of the El Tablazo petrochemical complex began, which would start the local industry, which was inaugurated in 1971.
 * The capital of the Municipality of Miranda is Los Puertos de Altagracia.
 * The municipality of Miranda has a population of approximately 110,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1873-1999 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1896-1999 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1982-2000 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1990-2000 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1990-2000 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1730-1942 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1894-1919 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Miranda municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * Cementerio Municipal de Sinamaica
 * Cementerio Municipal Rafael María Ávila Cuervo “Titán”