San Miguel Arcángel, Jiménez, Cartago, Costa Rica Genealogy

Guide to San Miguel Arcángel ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Alternate Names

 * Parroquia San Miguel Arcángel

History
San Miguel Arcángel is in the Diócesis de Cartago within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Administratively it is part of the district of Pejibaye, canton of Jiménez, and province of Cartago.

The Diócesis de Cartago was erected on 24 May 2005 from the Diocese of Limón and Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Records kept at the parish level likely stayed within the parish, but records made before 2005 may be housed in another archive depending on how they decided to keep the records.

Record Availability
Due to the increasing access of online records:
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * These are links to browse FamilySearch Explore Images and sets of the same images
 * FamilySearch Explore Images contains mostly un-indexed images of records that you can browse by locality.


 * The original metadata contained some mistakes, so this table can be used to see what records are available for each parish in Costa Rica