Ilocos Sur Province, Philippines Genealogy

Asia Philippines  Ilocos Sur Province

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

History
The Ilocos Region was already a thriving, fairly advanced cluster of towns and settlements familiar to Chinese, Japanese and Malay traders when the Spaniard explorer Don Juan de Salcedo and members of his expedition arrived in Vigan on July 1574. Forthwith, they made Cabigbigaan (Bigan), the heart of the Ylokos settlement their headquarters which Salcedo called “Villa Fernandina” and which eventually gained fame as the “Intramuros of Ilocandia”.

Augustinian missionaries joined the military forces in conquering the region through evangelization. They established parishes and built churches that still stand today. Three centuries later, Vigan became the seat of the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia.

A royal decree of February 2, 1818 separated Ilocos Norte from Ilocos Sur, the latter to include the northern part of La Union (as far as Namacpacan, now Luna) and all of what is now the province of Abra.

Cemeteries

 * Find A Grave
 * Vigan Public Cemetery
 * Tagudin Public Cemetery
 * Candon Public Cemetery
 * Bassit Cemetery
 * Caterman Cemetery
 * Lungog Catholic Cemetery
 * Bagatan Panpantok Cemetery

Websites

 * Ilocos Sur
 * The Heritage Province of Ilocos Sur Official Website
 * Ilocos Sur Province, Philippines
 * Ilocos Sur
 * Map of Ilocos Sur Province Philippines
 * Ilocos Norte & Ilocos Sur ZIP Code Directory