Urdaneta, Aragua, Venezuela Genealogy

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

History

 * Barbacoas was founded in 1712 by a landowner priest named Jerónimo Rebolledo.
 * Later its name changed to San Andrés de Aricapano de Barbacoas.
 * Another attempt occurred in that place on May 20, 1738 when the mayor of San Sebastián Juan José Ramírez de Salazar founded the town of Aricapan again.
 * It is known that 30 years later it had been consolidated, then with the name of the Immaculate Conception of Barbacoas.
 * It belonged to the jurisdiction of the Guárico state until 1934 when it entered the limits of the Aragua state.
 * The district was named after General Rafael Guillermo Urdaneta, who died in Barbacoas during the Federal War.
 * The municipality of Urdaneta has a population of approximately 21,300 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no records online for Urdaneta municipality.

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1784-1983 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1785-1963 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1843-2013 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1882-2014 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1893-1969 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

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