Girardot, Aragua, Venezuela Genealogy

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

History

 * The land where the city of Maracay is located today, were originally granted to the Spanish conqueror Sebastián Díaz Alfaro, in the 16th century; and at his death, they passed to his son Mateo.
 * It was founded by Andrés Pérez Almarza in 1697, and was erected as a vice-parishionship of the parish of San José de Maracay on March 5, 1701.
 * Maracay is spoken of as a town in the province of Caracas, then a city in the province of Aragua, and then part of the Guzmán Blanco state, the Great Bolívar State, and the Great Guzmán Blanco State, to definitively become the capital of the Aragua state.
 * In the 1950s, an important process of industrialization of the city took place and in the 1960s there were strong movements of immigration and land invasion.
 * The Municipality of Girardot has a population of approximately 407,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no records online for Girardot municipality.

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1700-1978 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1701-1940 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1928-2014 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1930-2017 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1930-2017 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1952-2015 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1952-2015 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1955-2014 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1956-1991 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1961-2014 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1965-2006 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1969-1991 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1970-2014 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1990-2017 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1993-2014 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 2006-2016 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 2007-2017 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Girardot municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * Cementerio La Primavera
 * Direction: Calle San Miguel, Maracay, Municipio Girardot
 * Cementerio Metropolitano
 * Direction: Maracay, Municipio Girardot