El Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico Genealogy

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

History

 * It corresponds to Francisco de Ibarra in 1563 founding the Villa de San Juan Bautista de Carapoa, located in the Carapoa or Cinaro Valley, approximately 30 kilometers from the (current) city of El Fuerte.
 * The construction of a fort to provide protection to the colonizing soldiers, occurs in 1610.
 * In 1824 the Constituent Congress designated the town of El Fuerte as the capital of the State of the West.
 * In 1851 the cholera epidemic, started in Mazatlán two years earlier, spread its devastating effects in El Fuerte.
 * With the disappearance of the state of Occidente, El Fuerte becomes a department and later a district to finally build the municipality as of April 16, 1906.
 * The municipality of El Fuerte has a population of approximately 100,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1861-1929 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Parish Records

 * 1783-1968 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Census

 * 1930 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Cemeteries

 * Panteón Municipal de El Fuerte
 * Address: Ninguno #0, Mochicahui, El Fuerte


 * Panteón Municipal de San Blas
 * Address: Ninguno #0, Las Flores, El Fuerte


 * Panteón Municipal:*Address: Ninguno #0, Pablo Macias (El Fuerte)
 * Panteón Municipal Charay:*Address: Avenida General ángel Flores #0, Charay, El Fuerte
 * Find a Grave