San Rafael, Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica Genealogy

Guide to San Rafael ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

History
San Rafael is in the Diocese of San José de Costa Rica within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Administratively it is part of the district of San Rafael, canton of Montes de Oca, and province of San José.

The Diocese of San José de Costa Rica was erected on 28 February 1850 from the Diocese of Nicaragua. Records kept at the parish level likely stayed within the parish, but records made before 1850 may be housed in another archive depending on how they decided to keep the records.

Record Availability
Due to the increasing access of online records:
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * These are links to browse FamilySearch Explore Images and sets of the same images
 * FamilySearch Explore Images contains mostly un-indexed images of records that you can browse by locality.


 * The original metadata contained some mistakes, so this table can be used to see what records are available for each parish in Costa Rica