San José, San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica Genealogy

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

Alternate Names

 * Parroquia San José
 * Iglesia Católica Aguas Zarcas

History
San José is in the Diocese of Ciudad Quesada within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Administratively it is part of the district of Aguas Zarcas, canton of San Carlos, and province of Alajuela.

The Diocese of Ciudad Quesada was erected on 25 July 1995 from the Diocese of Alajuela and the Diocese of Tilarán. Records kept at the parish level likely stayed within the parish, but records made before 1995 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