Simón Bolívar, Zulia, 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 Simón Bolívar Municipality was formerly known as Tía Juana (today that is the name of the capital of the municipality), a small town belonging to the Bolívar District (Cabimas) on the Eastern Coast of Lake Maracaibo.
 * It owes its name to Juana Villasmil, a remarkable woman of comfortable economic position and very kind.
 * The marriage was established in a herd, which over time was called Tía Juana.
 * Juana, when widowed, worked for the development and growth of the town.
 * She arrived in Cabimas during the second decade of the 1800s, accompanied by her husband Lorenzo Romero. Much of this area belonged to them.
 * The current territory of the Simón Bolívar municipality takes its name from the extinct Bolívar District, to which it belonged until 1989.
 * Between 1989 and 1995 it belonged to the Cabimas Municipality.
 * The municipality was created at the initiative of Franklin Duno Petit, separating from the Cabimas Municipality in 1995.
 * The Municipality of Simón Bolívar has a population of approximately 53,700 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1990-1999 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Simón Bolívar municipality may be found at findagrave.com