Sucre, Aragua, Venezuela Genealogy

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

History

 * On November 29, 1620, the Commendation of the Conqueror Garci González de Silva, with the name of San José de Cagua, was elevated to the Ecclesiastical Parish.
 * The Cagua parish covers the entire urban area of the city, and has 96% of the population of the Municipality, it is also the seat of the Mayor's Office of the Sucre Municipality and concentrates the vast majority of the commercial activity of the Municipality.
 * The Bella Vista parish begins to be populated in the 1960s, by a series of workers who form a union to find new farmland.
 * The Municipality of Sucre has a population of approximately 152,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no records online for Sucre municipality.

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1662-1947 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1971-1993 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Sucre municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * Cementerio Municipal de Cagua
 * Direction: Avenida Hugo Oliveros, Cagua, Municipio Sucre
 * Cementerio Jardines de Cagua