La Ceiba, Trujillo, Venezuela Genealogy

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

History

 * The process of occupation of the population centers of the area that today is occupied by the Municipality of La Ceiba, had its origin in the year 1620.
 * As of 1831, the Province of Trujillo begins to claim an outlet to Lake Maracaibo.
 * After the Federal War in 1881, the port became very important when the Gran Ferrocarril La Ceiba-Sabana de Mendoza came into operation and later, in 1899, it was extended to Motatán.
 * On April 9, 1899, the former National Congress decreed the annexation of La Ceiba to the Escuque canton of what was then called the province of Trujillo, definitively separating it from the Province of Maracaibo, today Zulia State.
 * Santa Apolonia was founded in 1907 as an eminently coffee-growing community5 that also serves as a railway link with the only maritime exit of the State of Trujillo, the port of La Ceiba, which at that time was the old capital of the Municipality of La Ceiba.
 * La Cieba was founded as a municipality on January 30, 1995.
 * The Municipality of La Ceiba has a population of approximately 26,300 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1880-1999 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1997-2001 (*) 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 La Ceiba municipality may be found at findagrave.com