San Miguel, San Miguel, El Salvador Genealogy

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

History

 * San Miguel was founded on May 8, 1530.
 * It was moved to its present location in 1586.
 * Since then, San Miguel became an emula and rival of San Salvador as the second most important city within the Mayor's Office of San Salvador and, later, of the Municipality of San Salvador during the entire period of Spanish colonization.
 * With the birth of the state of El Salvador, on June 12, 1824, the department of San Miguel was created, with the town of the same name as its head.
 * That area was divided into two departments in 1827: San Miguel itself and Chinameca.
 * Towards the middle of the 20th century it had an important economic development due to the agriculture of cotton and henequen, but the Salvadoran civil war altered its economy and society.
 * The municipality of San Miguel has a population of approximately 247,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * San Miguel (San Miguel) Registros civiles, 1878-2001 - Click on the link to see the records’ availability.

Church Records

 * 1655-1977 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Cemeteries
Indexes of those buried in the cemeteries of the municipality of San Miguel may be located in findagrave.com
 * Cementerio General de San Miguel
 * Dirección: Carretera Panamericana, San Miguel
 * Cementerio General de Manta
 * Dirección: San Miguel