Miranda, Carabobo, Venezuela Genealogy

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

History

 * The most remote written antecedent that we have been able to find, referring to the Onoto farmhouse, is from January 17, 1732.
 * Many Spaniards of Canarian and Sevillian origin settled throughout all the lands of the Carabobeño plateau, attracted by the fertility of our lands and some of them settled in the Onoto Valley in the mid-eighteenth century.
 * On December 5, 1849, the Onoto farmhouse was elevated to Civil Parish and given the name of Miranda.
 * On June 27, 1988, Miranda was elevated to Autonomous Municipality.
 * The municipality of Miranda has a population of approximately 29,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1873-2000 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1865-2013 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Miranda municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * Cementerio Municipal de Miranda