Simón Bolívar, Miranda, Venezuela Genealogy

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

History

 * The aborigines who inhabited this place were the Kirikires, descendants of the Caribs, whose chief was presumably the Yare Indian.
 * Its foundation occurred during the years 1714 and 1718, when the Franciscan Fathers summoned the small number of people in the place, in order to give definitive organization.
 * The Church was built for the year 1714.
 * San Francisco de Yare was part of the Province of Caracas, until the end of the last century.
 * The municipality managed to separate in 1989 from the then Lander District, today Lander Municipality.
 * The Municipality of Simón Bolívar has a population of approximately 42,600 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1873-2000 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1910-1998 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1826-1947 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1884-2017 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Simón Bolívar municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * Cementerio de San Francisco de Yare
 * Direction: 57G3+W37, San Francisco de Yare, Simón Bolívar