I ask for guidance in looking for information about my great-great-grandparents who were either from

Maria MargaridaGlad Goncalves

najensen

G7VN-7BP​ has vitals identical to what you mention above, with a birth in Italy:

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Do you have access to any registration records ​(citizenship, military draft cards, marriage certificates) for your great-great grandparents? These sometimes indicate a specific town or city of birth, which would be very helpful.

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Tracy Polyak

Hello Maria. In 1894, Poland did not exist. It was divided into 3 partitions, German, Austrian and Russian. When you say that they were from Austria or Poland, probably that means that they were from the Austria Partition of Poland (sometimes referred to as Silesia). If you google Partitions of Poland, you will be able to find a map and learn about the specific location that refers to.

 

In order to find records from that area, you will need to know the town they were from. So you will need to start with looking at all of the records that you can find from Brazil (or any other place you know that they lived). The town name could be recorded in civil records, church records, obituaries, military records, immigration or naturalization records, etc.

Tracy Polyak

Then you will need to start with the previous generations. Find out all you can about their children first, or perhaps you can find their siblings. Sometimes studying the locations and dates and documents of other family members can lead you in the right direction. For example, my great grandmother's obituary mentioned a brother. I was able to find her birth place by locating her brother's immigration records.

 

Have you joined groups for Brazilian genealogy?

Herb Robertson

It is likely that the family belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. If you search the baptismal records of their children in Brazil, the records will almost certainly show the names of parents and grandparents as well as where those people were born although it may only show country and not city or province. Good luck. - Herb Robertson

LegacyUser

 

That's exactly what happened, I got my grandfather's certificate and it appears there as coming from Poland. But my grandfather said he was an Austrian.

I only mentioned parents and grandparents' names and names, which are the ones I have described.

Thanks for the answer.

 

LegacyUser

Thank you for your attention and response.

 

I tried in Brazil to get these documents, but I didn't get anything. Unfortunately, the data of notary offices in Brazil leave something to be desired.

 

But I will continue to research.

 

gratitude

 

LegacyUser

 

Thank you for your attention and answer.

 

Unfortunately I have nothing, just the story told by my grandfather.

 

Gratitude

LegacyUser

I am only part of Family Search.

 

I will follow your advice.

 

Herb Robertson

Glad it helped.

Cindy Jarvis

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