looking for my great grand father
Hallo, good morning. Im looking for my great grand father who was born in Brazil but i cant find it. Could anyone help me?
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@GleisyCoimbra If you can provide the town in Brazil and a date range we can help you locate what records are available.
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Thank you for your response.
He was born in Rio or even in Niterói (state of Rio de Janeiro). His marriage certificate indicated NITEROI, a city in Rio de Janeiro, but all our family is from the city/state of Rio de Janeiro. We did not understand it.And all his siblings and parents also from the city of Rio de Janeiro.
ARTHUR DE AZEVEDO COIMBRA was born approximately on 28th September 1888.
Parents: JOAO BERNARDO DE AZEVEDO COIMBRA & ANA EUGENIA PEDROSO
Married On 12th May 1912
Spouse: ELIZA SILLES SANCHEZ ( MARRIED ELIZA SILLES COIMBRA)
DEATH: 23 December 1927
Please help me. I need so much this document.
Thank you so much
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Good morning. Is this your relative you are looking for. FamilySearch Arthur Coimbra Here possibly is a copy of the Marriage record in Rio de Janeiro. A good place to start is in FamilySearch search page for Arthur I also found good information in Ancestry.Com, but they may charge a fee for you to review this.
If you are new to FamilySearch there are many great places with instructions on how to research your relatives. Start in the area of Finding Ancestors. Scheduling a free on line consultation on getting started. Starting places for beginners. There are many more depending on your level of expertise.
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@scwoz , thank you for your response. Yes, this page is of my great grand father FamilySearch Arthur Coimbra and I began it 5 years ago. But I did not find the birth or even the baptism. Im trying but I really need some help.
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So far I have not found a birth registration, but in the time period birth registrations were new and not always recorded properly; some not at all others recorded by the Catholic church and many in the wrong districts. Don't let that stop you the information may still be out there.
Have you had the opportunity to go to the FamilySearch Wiki pages for Rio de Janeiro. Then you can go into civil registration searches, or church , localities, etc. There is a page called online Genealogy that gives many places to continue looking for birth records.
Birth, marriage, and death records may be found by contacting or visiting local civil registration offices or district and state civil archives in Brazil. The present location of records depends on whether the local office has sent its records to the higher jurisdiction. Most recent records will be found in the local civil registry offices. Older records may be found in the municipality, district archive, or state archive.
Civil registration records in Brazil can be obtained by writing to the local civil registry in the municipality. Civil officials will generally answer correspondence in Portuguese. Your request may be forwarded if the records have been sent to state archives.
After deciding who has jurisdiction over the records for the time period you need, write a brief request to the proper office in Portuguese. Use this address guide below, replacing the information in parentheses:
Cartório de Registro Civil (postal code), (city), (state) BRASIL
Since 1827 the Brazilian government has accepted marriages performed in the Catholic Church as official marriages. In 1850 a law was passed requiring registration of births and deaths throughout the country. Until 1870 the Catholic Church was required to keep these record. After 1870 these records were to be kept by the justices of the peace. Compliance was not immediate. While some civil registration records in Brazil date back to the 1860s and 1870s, others did not begin keeping records until as recently as the 1920s.
Because the Catholic Church continued keeping records after the creation of the civil registration, two types of records may be available for births, marriages, and deaths. Be sure to search both records, especially because the two records sometimes contain different information.
For birth, death, and marriage records that were created before civil records began in a particular area, see Brazil Church Records.
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