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Honduras

Civil Registration

How to Find the Records

Online Records

• 1841-1968 - Honduras, Civil Registration, 1841-1968 at FamilySearch — index and images

Offices to Contact

Registro Nacional de las Personas Tegucigalpa (Website is in Spanish.)
Address: Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Telephone: +504 9775-2964

Edificio Simón, Central Archive
Blvd. Suyapa
Frente a Químicas DINAN
Telephone: +504-239-3947

Archivo Nacional, Tegucigalpa
Barrio El Centro
Avenida Cristóbal Colón
Calle Salvador Mendieta 1117
Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.
Honduras C.A.
Telephone: +(504) 222-8338

Archivo General de Centroamerica (Central American Archives or CAA)
Acquired by:
Center for Research Libraries
6050 S. Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637-2804 USA

Telephone: (800) 621-6044 or (773) 955-4545
Fax: (773) 955-4339

List of civil registration offices
Directory of civil registration offices

Births

*1842 to 1881 - contact the Registro Nacional de las Personas Tegucigalpa for parish registers (18 books) (see above)
*1881 to present - contact the Civil Registration Office of each city; check Honduras, Civil Registration, 1841-1968 which may have your city
*1906 to present - contact the Archivo Nacional, Tegucigalpa (approximately 2,176,000 pages (see above)

Marriages

*1782-1819 - contact the General Archive of Central America (see above)

Deaths

*1881 to present - contact the Civil Register Office of each city; check Honduras, Civil Registration, 1841-1968 which may have your city

Divorces

*1819 and 1881 to present - contact the Civil Register Office of each city; check Honduras, Civil Registration, 1841-1968 which may have your city

Child Recognition

*1927 to present - Comayagua, Honduras (21 books)

Historical Background

Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths began in 1881.

Information Recorded in the Records

Births

• Child's name and surname
• Date and place of birth
• Parents' names and surnames
• Parents' residence and nationality
• Legitimacy

Marriages

• Names and surnames of the contracting parties
• Their ages
• Names and surnames of their parents
• Their parents' names
• Baptismal faith
• Sometimes witness' names

Matrimonial Contracts

• Oppositions to the marriage
• Petitions for a dispensation
• Reasons
• Separations
• Names
• Ages
• Origins
• Nationalities

Deaths

• Names and surnames of the deceased
• Date and cause of death
• Names of parents

Divorces

• Names
• Dates
• Parents
• Place and date of marriage
• Names of children

Child Recognition

• Name of child
• Name of father
• Legal declaration of the father