Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia Genealogy

Guide to Santa Cruz Department ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

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History

 * Santa Cruz is one of the nine departments that make up the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Its capital is Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
 * The department of Santa Cruz was created on January 23, 1826.
 * It is the first most populated department of the Plurinational State of Bolivia that displaces the Department of La Paz in 2012.
 * The Santa Cruz department has a population of approximately 3,078,000 people.

Online Records

 * 1566-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images