San Cristóbal Verapaz, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala Genealogy

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

History

 * In pre-Hispanic times, the region traded with towns in the West, using cocoa as currency. With the arrival of the Spaniards and the peaceful conquest of the region through the Capitulations of Tezulutlan, the caciques of Caccoh, led by Pedro Bathaan, accepted the Christian teaching on the part of Fray Juan de la Torre.
 * San Cristóbal Verapaz was founded almost at the same time as the town of Cobán.
 * The municipality was greatly affected by the civil war in Guatemala, specifically in the early 1980s, because due to its geographical location it was close to the field of action of the Guerrilla Army of the Poor and the oil regions of Chisec and Ixcán.
 * The municipality of San Cristóbal Verapaz has a population of approximately 55,000 people..

Civil Registration

 * 1877-1980 Guatemala, Civil Registration, 1877-1980 at Ancestry - index & images ($)
 * 1878-1942 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1878-2008 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Church Records

 * 1581-1977 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1792-1933 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Census Records

 * 1821 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries

 * Cementerio San Cristóbal Verapaz

Localities

 * Chisiram
 * Chiyuc
 * Comunidad Cerro Verde
 * El Rancho
 * Las Pacayas
 * Najtilabaj
 * Santa Elena