Granada, Granada, Nicaragua Genealogy

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

History

 * The Municipality of Granada was founded on April 21, 1524.
 * Unlike other populations that assert the same, the city of Granada was not only the settlement of the conquest, but also a city registered in the official records of the Crown of Aragon and the Kingdom of Castile in Spain.
 * The city was destroyed by the filibustering troops of William Walker in 1856, during the Nicaraguan National War
 * The Municipality of Granada has a population of approximately 132,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1879-2010 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Church Records

 * 1845-1936 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1846-1937 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1870-1945 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Census Records

 * 1746 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Granada municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * 1922-2007 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * Cementerio Municipal de Granada
 * Direction: NIC 4, Granada
 * Burial index at Billiongraves
 * El área rural cuenta con algunos cementerios organizados por la población.