How to see documents indexed?

Beatriz87869

I already found my family tree here but I’m having trouble finding the documents that can prove when they arrive in Brazil.

Johann Albert Eger N. 04/05/1858, Belgium (my grand-grandfather)

Antonio Lennert N. 27/02/1891, Tótvázsony, Veszprém, Hungary (my grandfather)

Thanks for your help!

Áine Ní Donnghaile

Good morning @Beatriz87869

It's a good idea to include the PID (profile identifier) when asking for help. That makes it easier for us to find the profiles you are researching.

Johann Albert Eger is LTDJ-15P, and Antonio Lennert is G8FP-F29. There is also a suggested duplicate for Antonio, G81T-TQ9.

You may want to post in the group for Latin American and Caribbean Research where users experienced in the area may be able to help.

Best of luck with the research.

Beatriz87869

I can’t even believe it! You just found the right document! It’s exactly this the register of the family! Thank you! I’ve been looking for this for days and can’t figure out how to see these documents attached!

The other grandfather is Johann Albert Eger (or Johann Eger or João Eckert) born in May 4th 1858, in Belgium 🇧🇪

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Beatriz wrote that she "can’t figure out how to see these documents attached".

You can see a profile's sources in a couple of ways: on the Details page using the Sources tool, or on the Sources page. (I used Antonio as the example for those links; you should be able to see that a transcription of that 1891 arrival document was added back in 2021, and then a different user added the source with the image link just this past August.)

Note that the arrival/immigration document is not currently indexed on FamilySearch, meaning that it cannot be searched for by the names on it. Based on the source attached in 2021, it seems to me that it may be indexed somewhere else. I agree with Áine's suggestion to ask on the Latin American and Caribbean Research group: people there may know about a website where that document and others like it are searchable. Also, three years is not that long; you could try contacting the user who made the source attachment, via FS's internal messaging ("chat") system. Perhaps he can help you find a similar record for your Belgian ancestors.

(I'm afraid my knowledge about genealogy in countries beginning with B is …minimal. I took a look at Antonio because Hungary I know quite well, although that's not the end you asked about.)

Áine Ní Donnghaile

There are record sets of Brazilian immigration records on both Ancestry and FamilySearch. Unfortunately, the set on FamilySearch has recently become strangely restricted; we've had a few discussion threads in recent months. I'm not sure yet of the basis for the restriction.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Antonio's profile already has an immigration/arrival record attached; is the problem that it takes a bit of wishful thinking to match that surname and those ages to his family? (I'm not sure what it says for the surname, besides probably not Lennert: ?eunert.)