Moravia, San José, Costa Rica Genealogy

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

History

 * In pre-Columbian times, the territory that currently corresponds to the canton of Moravia was inhabited by indigenous people from the so-called Huetar Kingdom of the West.
 * The population from its beginnings was subordinated in the civil and in the ecclesiastical aspects to the San Juan del Murciélago neighborhood (today Tibás).
 * The territorial division of Costa Rica, during the government of Braulio Carrillo establishes, in 1841, the Department of San José and divides it into neighborhoods and the neighborhoods into barracks and San Vicente becomes a Barracks under the jurisdiction of said neighborhood.
 * In one of the reports before Congress in 1846, the barracks on duty indicated that “San Vicente is a barracks with two neighborhoods. These are San Vicente and San Isidro.
 * The Canton of Moravia has a population of approximately 61,100 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1823-1975 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1860-1975 Costa Rica, Civil Registration, 1860-1975 at Ancestry - images ($)
 * 2011-2015 Costa Rica, Death Index, 2011-2015 at MyHeritage - index ($)

Church Records

 * 1595-1992 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Moravia Canton may be found at findagrave.com
 * 1958-2013 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * Camposanto La Piedad
 * Dirección: Del estadio Pipilo Umaña 100 m Norte, Avenida 83, San Vicente, Moravia
 * Horas: Abierto las 24 horas
 * Parque Cementerio de Moravia