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Comes out as a sheet for the reading room — what to ask for, who holds it, and every link written out in full.
This place
Where to begin
You know your family came from Barquisimeto. Here is the order I would work in, cheapest and easiest first — and what to do when that runs out.
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When you run out — and you will
Everything above is what this atlas knows. It is not everything there is. Nine places in ten on this map have never been surveyed by anybody, so a gap here is usually our silence rather than the record's absence.
Do this: write to the archive named in the era table for your year, even if we hold nothing for it. Then tell us what you found — a gap somebody has personally closed is the most useful thing a stranger can give this map.
Not yet mapped. The record regions cover Istria, the Kvarner, Carnia and Dalmatia so far, and Barquisimeto is outside them. That is a gap in this map rather than a gap in the record — and the most useful thing anyone could fill in.
No volumes recorded here yet.
The ground worth walking
Within 25 km — 2 places. These neighbours hold 183 catalogued volumes between them.
A register belongs to a parish, not to a village. A hamlet with no church of its own was written into the book of the church it walked to — and that book is catalogued under the other place's name. This is the ground to search before concluding a record does not exist.
- Lara7.3 km177 volumes
- Los Rastrojos13.3 km6 volumes
25 volumes catalogued here
The level below «a collection covers this place»: which book, for which years, and the link that opens its images. From FamilySearch's own catalogue. Nobody here has opened any of them. You can, though — mark the pages you have searched on any row below and this browser will remember where you stopped.
- Bautismos 1865-1893 ↗ 1865–1893
- Bautismos 1872-1875 ↗ 1872–1875
- Bautismos 1893-1898 ↗ 1893–1898
- Bautismos 1898-1931 ↗ 1898–1931
- Bautismos, matrimonios 1880-1884 ↗ 1880–1884
- Confirmaciones 1926 ↗ 1926–1926
- Defunciones 1865-1886 ↗ 1865–1886
- Defunciones 1886-1894 ↗ 1886–1894
- Defunciones 1894-1933 ↗ 1894–1933
- Índice de bautismos 1909-1924 ↗ 1909–1924
- Índice de defunciones 1912-1924 ↗ 1912–1924
- Matrimonios 1865-1880 ↗ 1865–1880
- Matrimonios 1882-1934 ↗ 1882–1934
- Bautismos 1689-1821 ↗ 1689–1821
- Bautismos 1818-1831 ↗ 1818–1831
- Bautismos 1821-1846 ↗ 1821–1846
- Bautismos 1847-1866 ↗ 1847–1866
- Bautismos 1866-1900 ↗ 1866–1900
- Bautismos 1900-1922 ↗ 1900–1922
- Bautismos 1922-1932 ↗ 1922–1932
- Consentimientos paternos para matrimonios 1853-1874 ↗ 1853–1874
- Defunciones 1716-1772 ↗ 1716–1772
- Defunciones 1718-1736 ↗ 1718–1736
- Defunciones 1736-1790 ↗ 1736–1790
- Defunciones 1788-1821 ↗ 1788–1821
National sources for Venezuela, unverified
From Wikidata, CC0 — the national archive and the national library where the country has one. Nobody here has opened these. The link answered when it was asked and that is the whole of what this map knows about them. They are listed because a country with no named source at all is the worse answer: 199 of the 237 countries here had nothing but the worldwide services, which cover everywhere and therefore say nothing about anywhere.
- National Archives of Venezuela ↗ national archive did not answer this checker
- National Library of Venezuela ↗ national library
Sources that cover everywhere
Not about Venezuela in particular — these reach most of the world, which includes here. They are listed after the local sources because a body that holds this ground's own paper is a better first stop than one that holds a little of everywhere's. Worth knowing they exist all the same.
- Internet Archive Images, free, no account
Full-text search across millions of digitised books, including parish histories, nobiliaries and local monographs that name ordinary people. - Arolsen Archives Images, free, no account
The former International Tracing Service. Concentration camp, forced labour and displaced-persons records for some seventeen and a half million people, free and fully indexed. - BillionGraves Images, free, no account
GPS-tagged headstone photographs. Smaller than Find a Grave but its coordinates are per-stone, which Find a Grave's often are not. - Find a Grave Images, free, no account
Volunteer-photographed headstones and cemetery indexes, worldwide, with very uneven coverage. Owned by Ancestry but free to read. - WikiTree Images, free, no account
A free, single shared tree with an unusually strong sourcing culture. Not a record source. - Yad Vashem — Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names Images, free, no account
Names and testimony pages for victims of the Shoah, free. - FamilySearch Images, free, account needed
The largest free collection of record images and indexes in the world. A free account is required, and a minority of images are restricted to Family History Centres and affiliate libraries. - Geni Images, free, account needed
One shared world tree. Useful for finding other researchers on the same line; not a record source, and its assertions are only as good as their citations. - JewishGen Images, free, account needed
The central Jewish genealogy resource — town-level KehilaLinks, burial and Holocaust databases, and revision lists for eastern Europe. - Geneanet Partly free, partly paid
Member-contributed trees and transcriptions, strongest in France. Much is free; a Premium tier gates some search and images. - Ancestry Images, behind a paywall
The largest commercial collection. Strong on the English-speaking world, censuses and immigration; weak on continental parish registers. - MyHeritage Images, behind a paywall
Commercial, with a large tree network and good European newspaper and directory coverage. Search is free; opening a record is not.
FamilySearch collections that reach here
A collection is a claim over an area, not a book standing in this town — so these are ranked by how specifically they reach Barquisimeto. A free account is needed to open the images, and some are restricted to a Family History Centre.
Worth searching, and worth knowing it is a national index rather than a local one.
- Venezuela, Catholic Church Records, 1577-2022 ↗ 1576–2022 17,411,088 records 506 km
- Venezuela, Civil Registration, 1843-2021 ↗ 1843–2021 1,505,347 records 506 km
- Venezuela, Archdiocese of Valencia, Catholic Church Records, 1760, 1905-2014 ↗ 1760–2014 1,412,675 records 506 km
- Venezuela, Archdiocese of Mérida, Catholic Church Records, 1654-2015 ↗ 1654–2015 1,376,825 records 506 km
- Venezuela, Diocese of San Cristóbal, Catholic Church Records, 1601-1962 ↗ 1601–1962 671,323 records 506 km
- Venezuela, Archdiocese of Caracas, Catholic Church Records, 1638-2020 ↗ 1638–2020 386,801 records 506 km
- Venezuela, Archdiocese of Barquisimeto, Catholic Church Records, 1634-2018 ↗ 1634–2018 154,012 records 506 km
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