San Buenaventura, Usulután, El Salvador Genealogy

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

History

 * At the beginning of the XIX century, San Buenaventura was a village of little importance, in the government of Jucuapa, party of San Miguel.
 * It was built as a town in 1811.
 * When the district of Chinameca was created, separate from that of San Miguel, on March 5, 1827, the town of San Buenaventura appears in this new administrative division of the extensive department of San Miguel.
 * On March 8, 1848 it ceased to be a municipality.
 * On February 21, 1852 it was instituted again in town.
 * On March 11, 1854, the canton of La Labor was disintegrated, which was founded in town with the name of El Triunfo.
 * San Buenaventura, as a town of the Chinameca district, became part of the department of Usulután on June 22, 1865.
 * On February 4, 1867, the demarcation of Chinameca was divided into two: that of this name and that of Jucuapa, the town of San Buenaventura was always incorporated into Chinameca.
 * On July 14, 1875, San Buenaventura joined the Jucuapa district, to which it has belonged ever since.
 * On May 6, 1951, a very violent earthquake totally devastated the town of San Buenaventura.
 * The decree of June 5, 1954, which establishes the constitution, in the valley of La Esperanza, a modern city that will merge the inhabitants of the destroyed towns of Jucuapa, Chinameca, San Buenaventura and Nueva Guadalupe.
 * The municipality of San Buenaventura has a population of approximately 4,700 people.

Civil Registration

 * San Buenaventura (Usulután) Registros civiles, 1891-1920(*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Church Records

 * 1655-1977 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Cemeteries
Indexes of those buried in the cemeteries of the municipality of San Buenaventura may be located in findagrave.com
 * Cementerio Municipal de San Buenaventura
 * Address: 7ª Avenida Sur, San Buenaventura
 * Horas: Domingo a Sábado de 08:00–18:00