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In other languages: EspañolHow to Find the Records[edit | edit source]
Online Records[edit | edit source]
- 1841-1968 Honduras, Civil Registration, 1841-1968 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
Offices to Contact[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
*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[edit | edit source]
*1782-1819 - contact the General Archive of Central America (see above)
Deaths[edit | edit source]
*1881 to present - contact the Civil Register Office of each city; check Honduras, Civil Registration, 1841-1968 which may have your city
Divorces[edit | edit source]
*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[edit | edit source]
*1927 to present - Comayagua, Honduras (21 books)
Historical Background[edit | edit source]
Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths began in 1881.[1]
Coverage and Compliance[edit | edit source]
Information Recorded in the Records[edit | edit source]
Births[edit | edit source]
- Child's name and surname
- Date and place of birth
- Parents' names and surnames
- Parents' residence and nationality
- Legitimacy
Marriages[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Oppositions to the marriage
- Petitions for a dispensation
- Reasons
- Separations
- Names
- Ages
- Origins
- Nationalities
Deaths[edit | edit source]
- Names and surnames of the deceased
- Date and cause of death
- Names of parents
Divorces[edit | edit source]
- Names
- Dates
- Parents
- Place and date of marriage
- Names of children
Child Recognition[edit | edit source]
- Name of child
- Name of father
- Legal declaration of the father
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Ryskamp, George. Finding Your Hispanic Roots. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997.