San Antonio de Padua, Parrita, Puntarenas, Costa Rica Genealogy

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

Alternate Names

 * Iglesia Católica Pueblo Nuevo

History
San Antonio de Padua is in the Diocese of San Isidro de El General within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Administratively it is part of the neighborhood of Pueblo Nuevo, district of Parrita, canton of Parrita, and province of Puntarenas.

The Diocese of San Isidro de El General was erected on 19 August 1954 from the Diocese of Alajuela and Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Records kept at the parish level likely stayed within the parish, but records made before 1954 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