Roscio, Bolívar, Venezuela Genealogy

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

History

 * Guasipati, the capital of the future Roscio municipality, was founded on September 27, 1757 by indigenous people together with missionaries and Spaniards.
 * Guasipati was also the capital of the Yuruari Federal Territory officially imposed in the government of Antonio Guzmán Blanco on September 3, 1881.
 * The federal territory of Yuruari disappears on August 5, 1909.
 * From then on it is only the capital of the Roscio district, this was next to the other and only important population of the district that was Miamo.
 * The city was forgotten and things got worse in it, murders and confrontations between the people and the government would be part of the events of the population of Roscio, but for the following years it would re-emerge little by little from its foundations devastated by the events of the In the past, the city still has the 3 satellite towns, but it still depends a lot on the income from El Callao, a neighboring town that is also the capital of the homonymous municipality.
 * The autonomous municipality becomes official on September 27, 1994.
 * The Municipality of Roscio has a population of approximately 27,500 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no records online for Roscio municipality.

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1823-1938 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1869-1950 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1872-1931 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1880-2016 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1905-1928 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

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