Caguas Digitized Church Records 1730 – 1968
While Caguas in Puerto Rico records start in 1730, there are many records that have been lost prior to this year. It is quite unfortunate as many questions remain unanswered regarding those that live in this region prior to this year. We can only get a glimpse of those ancestors via the death books.
This post consists of 17 sets of films that have been digitized with well over 35,000 images. Keep in mind that the volume of records is large. I provide the image numbers to the starting point of each book so you can jump back if needed. Note that their catalog may list a book as death when they are actually baptisms records. In addition, I found errors in the years provided. I have made the corrections when listing them below.
Most importantly, one of the habits of a priest is forgetting to document your ancestor in the correct books. It pays to review prior volumes and future volumes. There are people who are enslaved listed in many of these books. An important thing to keep in mind. When it came to deaths, everyone was listed in the same books. There was no separation. These books hold a lot of ancestry information, do not skip over them. If you do not know the language, Spanish, or have difficulty reading it. There are two resources I recommend. One is using Google Translate and the other is joining a group on Facebook called Genealogy Translations. Please follow the rules in the group to get assistance.
Index Books
- Baptisms Index 1864 – 1880 (Image 58)
- Baptisms Index Book 1: A – H – 1900 – 1926 (Image 3)
- Baptisms Index Book 2: I – Z – 1900 – 1926 (Image 107)
- Baptisms Index Book 3: A – Z – 1926 – 1935 (Image 251)
- Baptisms Index Book: A – Z – 1936 – 1942 (Image 385)
- Baptisms Index Book: A – M – 1943 – 1953 (Image 500)
- Baptisms Index Book: N – Z – 1943 – 1953 (Image 611)
- Baptisms Index Book: A – Z – 1954 – 1958 (Image 692)
- Marriages Index Book 1 – 1850 – 1926 (Image 563)
- Marriages Index Book 1 – 1850 -1926 (Image 136) duplicate of above
- Marriages Index Book 2 – 1927 -1941 (Image 687)
- Marriages Index Book 3 – 1939 – 1968 (Image 795)
- Death Index of Book 13 – 1854 – 1861 (Image 804)
The following books are all contained in one book. The book contains slaves, freed blacks, brown/mixed and whites that were baptized, married, or died in this region. I have broken the book down into three books for easier navigation. I also placed them in the order they appear so you can bounce around the images. So for example, baptism records go from 1309 through and including 1653. Knowing this helps you move around within this book.
- Book 1 of Baptisms 1730 – 1766 (Image 1498)
- Book 1 of Marriages 1734 – 1774 (Image 1654)
- Book 1 of Deaths 1730 – 1769 (Image 1725)
Baptisms Books
- Book 2 of Baptisms 1785 – 1788 (Image 3)
- Book of Baptisms 1809 – 1811 (Image 104)
- Book of Baptisms 1812 – 1823 (Image 247)
- Book of Baptisms 1821 – 1829 (Image 623)
- Book 1 of Baptisms of Mixed/Brown (Pardos) 1823 – 1829 (Image 578)
- Book 2 of Baptisms 1828 – 1833 (Image 771)
- Book 2A of Baptisms of Mixed/Brown 1829 – 1836 (Image 976)
- Book 3 of Baptisms of Whites 1829 – 1837 (Image 1170)
- Book of Baptisms 1836 – 1843 of Whites (Image 2122)
- Book of Baptisms 1843 – 1850 (Image 1366)
- Book of Baptisms 1845 (Image 2074)
- Book 7 of Baptisms of Mixed and Whites 1854 – 1859 (Image 1857)
- Book 8 of Baptisms of Mixed and Whites 1859 – 1861 (Image 1550) with Index in back
- Book 9 of Baptisms 1861 – 1865 (Image 5)
- Book 10 of Baptisms of Freed Mixed and Whites 1862 – 1864 (Image 6)
- Book 11 of Baptisms of Mixed and Whites 1864 – 1866 (Image 312)
- Book 12 of Baptisms 1866 – 1870 (Image 861)
- Book 13 of Baptisms 1870 – 1872 (Image 1480)
- Book 15 of Baptisms 1872 -1874 (Image 1789)
- Book 16 of Baptisms 1874 – 1876 (Image 5)
- Book 17 of Baptisms 1876 – 1878 (Image 313) with Index in back
- Book 18 of Baptisms 1878 – 1879 (Image 616) with Index in back
- Book 19 of Baptisms 1879 – 1880 (Image 932)
- Book 20 of Baptisms 1880 – 1883 (Image 1221)
- Book 21 of Baptisms 1883 – 1884 (Image 1513)
- Book 22 of Baptisms 1884 – 1887 (Image 1721)
- Book 23 of Baptisms 1887 – 1890 (Image 4)
- Book 24 of Baptisms 1890 – 1893 (Image 372) with Index in back
- Book 25 of Baptisms 1893 – 1895 (Image 763) with Index in back
- Book 26 of Baptisms 1895 – 1897 (Image 1052)
- Book 27 of Baptisms 1897 – 1900 (Image 1350)
- Book 28 of Baptisms 1900 – 1902 (Image 1780)
- Book 29 of Baptisms 1902 – 1904 (Image 2064)
- Book 30 of Baptisms 1904 – 1905 (Image 4) with Index in back
- Book 31 of Baptisms 1905 – 1906 (Image 281)
- Book 32 of Baptisms 1906 – 1908 (Image 592)
- Book 33 of Baptisms 1908 – 1910 (Image 902)
- Book 34 of Baptisms 1910 – 1912 (Image 1350) with Index in front
- Book 35 of Baptisms 1912 – 1914 (Image 1637) with Index in front
- Book 36 of Baptisms 1914 – 1916 (Image 1923) with Index in front
- Book 37 of Baptisms 1916 – 1917 (Image 5) with Index in front
- Book 38 of Baptisms 1917 – 1918 (Image 386) with Index in front
- Book 39 of Baptisms 1918 – 1920 (Image 763)
- Book 40 of Baptisms 1920 – 1921 (Image 1125) with Index in front
- Book 41 of Baptisms 1921 – 1922 (Image 1523)
- Book 41 of Baptisms 1921 – 1922 (Image 809) – partial from above
- Book 42 of Baptisms 1921 – 1922 (Image 962)
- Book 43 of Baptisms 1922 – 1923 (Image 1861)
- Book 43 of Baptisms 1922 – 1923 (Image 1339) duplicate of above
- Book 44 of Baptisms 1924 (Image 1700)
- Book 45 of Baptisms 1924 – 1925 (Image 1968)
- Book 46 of Baptisms 1925 – 1926 (Image 5)
- Book 47 of Baptisms 1926 (Image 284)
- Book 48 of Baptisms 1926 – 1927 (Image 503)
- Book 49 of Baptisms 1927 – 1928 (Image 724)
- Book 50 of Baptisms 1928 (Image 951)
- Book 51 of Baptisms 1928 – 1929 (Image 1172)
- Book 52 of Baptisms 1929 – 1930 (1403)
- Book 53 of Baptisms 1930 (Image 1631)
- Book 54 of Baptisms 1930 – 1931 (Image 1842)
- Book 55 of Baptisms 1931 – 1932 (Image 2059)
- Book 56 of Baptisms 1932 (Image 2273)
- Book 57 of Baptisms 1932 – 1933 (Image 2484)
- Book 58 of Baptisms 1933 (Image 2697)
- Book 58 of Baptisms 1933 -1934 (Image 5) – Continuation
- Book 59 of Baptisms 1934 (Image 103)
- Book 60 of Baptisms 1934 – 1935 (Image 313)
- Book 61 of Baptisms 1935 (Image 528)
- Book 62 of Baptisms 1935 – 1936 (Image 744)
- Book 63 of Baptisms 1936 – 1937 (Image 1030)
- Book 64 of Baptisms 1937 (Image 1287)
- Book 65of Baptisms 1937 – 1938 (Image 1566)
- Book 66 of Baptisms 1938 – 1939 (Image 1837)
- Book 67 of Baptisms 1939 – 1940 (Image 2123)
- Book 68 of Baptisms 1940 (Image 2392)
- Book 69 of Baptisms 1940 – 1941 (Image 2684)
- Book 70 of Baptisms 1941 (Image 3)
- Book 71 of Baptisms 1941 – 1942 (Image 296)
- Book 72 of Baptisms 1942 – 1943 (Image 609)
- Book 73 of Baptisms 1943 – 1944 (Image 888)
- Book 74 of Baptisms 1944 (Image 1157)
- Book 75 of Baptisms 1944 – 1945 (Image 1426)
- Book 76 of Baptisms 1945 – 1946 (Image 1702)
- Book 77 of Baptisms 1946 (Image 1971)
- Book 78 of Baptisms 1946 – 1947 (Image 2257)
- Book 79 of Baptisms 1947 (Image 2530)
- Book 80 of Baptisms 1947 – 1948 (Image 2802)
- Book 81 of Baptisms 1948 – 1949 (Image 5)
- Book 82 of Baptisms 1949 (Image 295)
- Book 83 of Baptisms 1949 – 1950 (Image 570)
- Book 84 of Baptisms 1950 (Image 853)
- Book 85 of Baptisms 1950 – 1951 (Image 1139)
- Book 86 of Baptisms 1951 – 1952 (Image 1430)
- Book 87 of Baptisms 1952 – 1953 (Image 1708)
- Book 88 of Baptisms 1953 (Image 2000)
- Book 89 of Baptisms 1953 – 1954 (Image 2296)
- Book 90 of Baptisms 1954 (Image 2578)
- Book 91 of Baptisms 1954 – 1955( Image 3)
- Book 92 of Baptisms 1955 – 1956 (Image 288)
Marriages Books
- Book 2 of Marriages 1774 – 1804 (Image 290)
- Book 2 of Marriages 1804 – 1809 (Image 994)
- Book 3 of Marriages 1809 – 1812 (Image 570)
- Book 5 of Marriage of Freed Black, Slaves, and Mixed/Brown 1810 – 1835 (Image 190)
- Book 7 of Marriages 1812 – 1821 (Image 218)
- Book 5 of Marriages 1821 – 1842 (Image 1144)
- Book 6 of Marriages of Freed Blacks, Slaves, Mixed/Brown and Whites 1836 – 1849 (Image 4)
- Book 8 of Marriages of Whites 1842 – 1850 (Image 263)
- Book 9 of Marriage 1855 – 1870 (Image 706)
- Book 10 of Marriages 1870 – 1876 (Image 684)
- Book 11 of Marriages 1877 – 1889 (Image 372) with Index in back
- Book 12 of Marriages 1889 – 1901 (Image 996) with Index in back
- Book 13 of Marriages 1901 – 1909 (Image 1404) with Index in back
- Book 14 of Marriages 1909 – 1914 (Image 1950)
- Book 14 of Marriages 1909 – 1914 (Image 382) duplicate of above
- Book 15 of Marriage 1914 – 1918 (Image 4) with Index in front
- Book 16 of Marriages 1919 – 1926 (Image 891)
- Book 16 of Marriages 1919 – 1926 (Image 1896) duplicate of above
- Book 17 of Marriages 1927 – 1931 (Image 1222)
- Book 18 of Marriages 1931 – 1935 (Image 1430)
- Book 19 of Marriages 1935 – 1938 (Image 1646)
- Book 20 of Marriages 1939 – 1943 (Image 1854)
- Book 21 of Marriages 1943 – 1949 (Image 2114)
- Book 22 of Marriages 1949 – 1953 (Image 2382)
- Book 23 of Marriages 1953 – 1956 (Image 2644)
Confirmation Books
- Book 1 of Confirmations 1904 – 1918 (Image 1787)
- Book 2 of Confirmations 1918 – 1935 (Image 1988)
- Book 3 of Confirmations 1935 – 1941 (Image 2162)
- Book 4 of Confirmations 1941 – 1945 (Image 2250)
- Book 4 of Confirmations 1945 – Continuation (Image 4)
Death Books
- Book 2 of Deaths 1771 – 1801 (Image 1860)
- Book 4 of Deaths 1801 – 1810 (Image 1570)
- Book 5 of Deaths 1810 – 1819 (Image 1288)
- Book 5 of Deaths 1819 – 1822 (Image 1833)
- Book 6 of Deaths 1822 – 1825 (Image 2015)
- Book 7 of Deaths 1826 – 1830 (Image 2169)
- Book 8 of Deaths 1830 – 1836 (Image 4)
- Book 9 of Deaths 1836 – 1840 (Image 211)
- Book 10 of Deaths 1840 – 1845 (Image 409)
- Book 11 of Death 1845 – 1849 (Image 319)
- Book 12 of Deaths 1849 – 1854 (Image 1309)
- Book 13 of Deaths 1854 – 1861 (Image 836)
- Book 14 of Deaths 1861 – 1863 (Image 527)
- Book 15 of Deaths 1863 – 1867 (Image 832) with Index in back
- Book 16 of Deaths 1867 – 1870 (Image 1164) with Index in front
- Book 17 of Deaths 1870 – 1874 (Image 1498) with Index in front
- Book 18 of Deaths 1874 – 1877 (Image 626) with Index in back
- Book 19 of Deaths 1877 – 1879 (Image 932) with Index in back
- Book 20 of Deaths 1880 – 1884 (Image 1242) with Index in back
- Book 21 of Deaths 1884 – 1889 (Image 1556)
- Book 22 of Deaths 1889 – 1896 (Image 1966) with Index in back
- Book 23 of Deaths 1896 – 1904 (Image 5) with Index in back
- Book 24 of Deaths 1904 – 1909 (Image 441) with Index in back
- Book 25 of Deaths 1909 – 1911 (Image 1086) with Index in back
Dear Anna: I am so glad you will continue to share your findings, and hard work with the rest of us who depend on it so much. I can not properly express how grateful I felt when I first came upon your blog. From time to time I come back hoping there is information about Lares. You are very kind and generous 🙂 God Bless!!