Zamboanga del Sur Province, Philippines Genealogy

Asia Philippines  Zamboanga del Sur Province

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

History
The name of the Province was derived from the Malay word Jambangan, meaning a pot or place of flowers. Historically, Zamboanga was the capital of the Moro Province, which comprised of five (5) districts, namely: Cotabato, Davao, Sulu, Lanao and Zamboanga. In 1940, these districts became individual provinces. Zamboanga City became the capital of the Zamboanga Province. Soon after the Second World War, the provincial capital was transferred to Dipolog. After that, Molave was created as the provincial capital of the Province of Zamboanga by virtue of RA 286 dated June 16, 1948. Zamboanga del Sur was carved out from the former Zamboanga Province that encompassed the entire peninsula in Southwestern Mindanao on September 17, 1952 by virtue of Republic Act 711. As the 52nd province of the Republic, it originally consisted of 11 towns, which later expanded into 42 municipalities and one city-Pagadian, its capital.

It was sub-divided into three (3) congressional districts with 11 municipalities and one (1) city in the first, 15 municipalities in the second, and 16 towns in the third. In 1990, Executive Order 429 reorganized the administrative set-up of Region IX and identified Pagadian City as the new regional center. The gradual transfer of regional offices of the national government agencies started in mid-2002. The Department of Agriculture (DA) with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) were the first that had transferred while other regional offices only established their field or extension office.

Political developments in February 2001 saw another major change in the territorial jurisdiction of Zamboanga del Sur. Its inhabitants voted to create a new province out of the Third Congressional District-named the Zamboanga Sibugay Province. Republic Act 8973 embodies the legal creation of the said province. The mother province is now left with 26 municipalities and one city with 681 barangays

article from the provincial government of Zamboanga del Sur

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 * Philippines, Civil Registration (Archives Division), 1902-1945


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