Bacoachi, Sonora, Mexico Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Bacoachi family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

History

 * The current territory of the municipality was originally inhabited by tribes of ópatas teguimas.
 * Captain Simón Lazo de la Vega in 1649 explored this place, where he founded a Spanish villa.
 * It was chosen as a municipality in the year 1813.
 * Then, in 1831, a new constitution approved the political division into parties and everything that in 1813 had been the municipality of Bacoachi became part of the Partido de Arizpe.
 * In 1848 a new constitution ratified the division on the basis of districts only for the internal administration of each party and then Bacoachi was part of both the party as the District of Arizpe.
 * The municipality of Bacoachi has a population of approximately 1,600 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1867-1995 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Census

 * 1930 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Cemeteries
None found