Pampanito, Trujillo, Venezuela Genealogy

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

History

 * In this Municipality are the indigenous roots that populated the Trujillo region.
 * They called Pampanito; "Town of Bread to eat and Town of Bread to take"; Its origins date back to the 17th century.
 * In 1608 there was a farm called La Chapa and in 1777 a chapel was built near Macuche, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception.
 * Populations such as Pampanito and La Concepción have their first records since the 18th century, both being rural populations that are mainly based on agriculture.
 * Pampanito and La Concepción remained somewhat behind with their underdeveloped agriculture, until in the last years of the 20th century, they made the Pampán municipality official, but they also gave Pampanito the opportunity to be the capital of an autonomous municipality in Pampán.
 * To differentiate them, they decided to call it with its current name, Pampanito, but it is not only because its capital was called that, but also because the difference in size of the municipalities was very large.
 * Pampanito until 1987, belonged to the Trujillo District as one of its municipalities.
 * On November 10, 1994, when Pampanito was named an Autonomous Municipality.
 * The municipality of Pampanito has a population of approximately 31,800 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1873-2000 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1996-2000 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1814-1950 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1833-1938 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1860-1959 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1907-2014 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Pampanito municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * Cementerio Municipal de Pampanito