El Jícaro, El Progreso, Guatemala Genealogy

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

History

 * The first inhabitants of the municipality were people of the Pipil race that came from the southern part of the country.
 * Before the creation of the department of El Progreso, the town belonged to the department of Zacapa that was a village of the municipality of San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán that was a municipality of Zacapa at that time.
 * El Jícaro is a municipality in the northeast region of the department of El Progreso of the Republic of Guatemala.
 * The municipality of El Jícaro has a population of approximately 17,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1877-1980 Guatemala, Civil Registration, 1877-1980 at Ancestry - index & images ($)
 * 1908-1933 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1908-2009 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Church Records

 * 1581-1977 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Census Records

 * There are no records only for the municipality of El Jícaro. See the records of neighboring municipalities.

Cemeteries

 * Cementerio Municipal de Espiritu Santo