Poptún, Petén, Guatemala Genealogy

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

History

 * Due to the inhospitable terrain and its leganía, the area occupied by the modern state of Belize, bordering on Poptún, was never occupied by Spain.
 * Petén was a dependent district of the department of Verapaz after the Independence of Central America.
 * Although the State of Guatemala inherited the argument of Spain to claim the Belizean territory, the British established small settlements on the Belizean coast since the mid-seventeenth century, settlements used as bases for buccaneers, logging and commercial smuggling to Central America.
 * The border between Poptún and Belize was delimited through the Wyke-Aycinena treaty.
 * The municipality of Poptún has a population of approximately 43,000 people

Civil Registration

 * 1751-1937 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1900-2009 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Church Records

 * 1581-1977 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1751-1937 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Census Records

 * There are no records for only the municipality of Poptún. See the records of neighboring municipalities.

Cemeteries

 * Cementerio General de Poptún

Localities

 * Machaquilá