Alaquines, Media, San Luis Potosí, Mexico Genealogy

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

History

 * His ancient name was San José&#233; of the Alaquines Mountains, with which he was designated as the since its foundation in 1616.
 * They assigned it the category of Villa, calling it simply Alaquines, according to the decree of April 23, 1830.
 * In December 1832, there was a name change by decree of the State Legislature, it was called; Villa de Moctezuma.
 * In September 1834, the law was repealed. the decree and returned to be simply the Villa de Alaquines.
 * The municipality of Alaquines has a population of approximately 8,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1861-1998 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Parish Records

 * 1719-1970 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Census

 * 1930 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Cemeteries

 * Pante&#243;n, La Ca&#241;ada
 * Address: Alaquines


 * Municipal Pantheon
 * Address: Ju&#225;rez #0, San Antonio, Alaquines