Uspantán, Quiché, Guatemala Genealogy

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

History

 * During the 1520s, Uspantán and other indigenous villages Ixils and Uspantekos resisted the conquest for several years thanks to its location in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes and the ferocity of its warriors; nevertheless, after several years of preventing the attempts of conquest of the Spaniards, they were finally defeated in December of 1530, and the surviving warriors were marked as slaves as punishment for their prolonged resistance.
 * Diego de Rojasla was awarded the first assignment.
 * With the Independence of Central America in 1821 it was integrated as part of the department of Sololá / Suchitepéquez.
 * Since August 12, 1872, it has belonged to the newly created department of Quiché.
 * The Guerrilla Army of the Poor acted in Uspantán, which justified committing attacks on the infrastructure with the argument that they affected, on the one hand, the economic interests of the State and the productive sectors, and on the other, that they violated the Army.
 * The municipality of Uspantán has a population of approximately 42,000 people

Civil Registration

 * 1877-1939 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - index & images
 * 1877-1980 Guatemala, Civil Registration, 1877-1980 at Ancestry - index & images ($)

Parish Records

 * 1581-1977 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Census Records

 * There are no records for only the municipality of Uspantán. See the records of neighboring municipalities.

Cemeteries

 * Cementerio Municipal de Uspantán
 * There are 18 rural cemeteries