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Genealogical Societies

The São Jorge Genealogical Society
Website: https://saojorgegenealogy.org/


Portuguese Genealogical and Historical Society of Hawaii
Address:
1616 Liliha Street, Suite 308
Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Telephone: (808) 841-5044
Email: PGSHOahu@hotmail.com
Website: https://www.portuguesegenealogicalandhistoricalsocietyofhawaii.com/

Portuguese Genealogy
Website: http://www.dholmes.com/rocha1.html

American-Portuguese Genealogical and Historical Society
Mailing Address:
PO Box 644
Taunton, MA 02780

Ancestry.com has message boards for Portugal.

Link: https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.weurope.portugal.general/mb.ashx

Rootsweb has mailing lists for Portugal, including the Azores.

Link: https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/overview?country=Portugal

Historical Societies

Portuguese Society of America
Address:
1100 14th Street, Suite E
Modesto, CA 95354
Email: mypfsa@mypfsa.org
Telephone: 209.702.6364
Website: https://www.mypfsa.org/#/

Portuguese Historical and Cultural Society
Website: http://sacramentophcs.com/

The British Historical Society of Portugal
Mailing Address:
C/o: St. Julian's School
Quinta Nova
2775-588 Carcavelos
Portugal
Email: info@bhsportugal.org
Telephone: (+351) 21 458 5336
Website: https://www.bhsportugal.org/

Algarve History Association

Website: https://www.algarvehistoryassociation.com/en/

Portuguese Historical Museum
Address:
1650 Senter Road
San José, California 95112
Telephone: (408) 612-8095
Website: https://portuguesemuseum.org/

Portuguese Union of the State of California

The Portuguese Union of the State of California (A União Portuguesa do Estado da Califórnia), abbreviated as UPEC, was a fraternal association founded 1 August 1880 in San Leandro, CA. While all the founding members were Portuguese (all but one were from the Azores), enrollment was open to anyone interested in Portuguese culture.

UPEC funded cultural activities, college scholarships, and the J.A. Freitas Library, the most complete library of books and periodicals related to Portuguese in the USA. The organization also provided life insurance to its members.

In 2010, UPEC was merged with several other Portuguese fraternal societies to form the Portuguese Society of America.

UPEC created two record sets of particular interest to genealogists. Those are the death claim registers, created when a member of the society died and membership records, created when an individual joined the society.

Death Claim Registers

Death Claim Registers were created when a member of the society died. The record typically provided the individual's name, death date, the name of the beneficiary of their life insurance, and the date and place (chapter number) of admission into the union.

The death claim registers have been indexed and are available on Ancestry. A subscription is required to view the records. The records are part of a collection that includes a variety of records from the counties of Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Fresno, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, Sutter, and Yolo as well as the death claim registers. The images of the death claim registers are available on FamilySearch, but have not been indexed.

After you have located the death register, you can use the the information on the date the individual joined UPEC as well as the chapter number where they joined to locate their membership record.

Membership Records

Membership Records were created when an individual joined the society. The record typically provided the individual's name, age, marital status, occupation, residence, place of birth (usually the district in Portugal or the name of the Island in the Azores), and the name of the beneficiary of their life insurance.

The memberships records have been digitized by FamilySearch, but have not been indexed. Consult the following table to identify which microfilm records contain the membership record for the chapter where an individual joined the union.

Some towns had several chapters, and other times the information on chapter members was recorded in multiple books. When searching in a chapter that has multiple records for a specific date, attempt to locate the individual in each collection. Different information may have been recorded in the different copies of the membership records.

Chapter Location FS Library Film no. Start Year End Year
1 San Leandro 1577855, item 6 1880 1893
7 Oakland 1577855, item 6 1889 1893
6 Mendocino 1577855, item 6 1889 1890
8 Pleasanton 1577855, item 6 1890 1893
4 Sausalito 1577855, item 6 1893 1893
3 Hayward 1577855, item 6 1888 1893
5 Centerville 1577855, item 6 1890 1892
5 Centerville 1577855, item 6 1888 1889
5 Centerville 1577855, item 6 1889 1890
2 Hollister 1577855, item 6 1883 1891
3 Hayward 1577855, item 6 1885 1889
4 Petaluma 1577855, item 6 1886 1891
1 San Leandro 1577855, item 7 1891 1897
1 San Leandro 1577855, item 7 1880 1895
1 San Leandro 1577855, item 7 1880 1910
24 Stockton 1577855, item 8 1896 1897
2 Hollister 1577855, item 8 1883 1884
2 Hollister 1577855, item 8 1883 1913
3 Hayward 1577855, item 9 1885 1913
4 Petaluma 1577855, item 10 1886 1912
5 Centerville 1577855, item 11 1888 1913
1 San Leandro 1577856, item 1 1880 1923
6 Mendocino 1577856, item 2 1889 1910
7 Oakland 1577856, item 3 1889 1912
8 Pleasanton 1577856, item 4 1890 1914
9 Milpitas 1577856, item 5 1890 1913
10 Mission San Jose 1577856, item 6 1891 1911
11 Sacramento 1577856, item 7 1891 1895
25 Oakland 1577856, item 7 1896 1901
11 Sacramento 1577856, item 7 1891 1914
12 Watsonville 1577856, item 8 1892 1936
12 Watsonville 1577856, item 9 1892 1912
13 West Oakland 1577856, item 10 1893 1912
14 Sausalito 1577856, item 11 1893 1914
15 San Francisco 1577856, item 12 1894 1914
16 Alvarado 1577856, item 13 1890 1911
17 Half Moon Bay 1577856, item 14 1895 1912
18 Benicia 1577856, item 15 1895 1911
19 San Rafael 1577856, item 16 1896 1910
20 Concord 1577856, item 17 1896 1912
21 Selma 1577856, item 18 1896 1911
22 Hanford 1577856, item 19 1896 1937
22 Hanford 1578016, item 1 1896 1913
22 Hanford 1578016, item 2 1937 1952
23 Fresno 1578016, item 3 1896 1912
24 Stockton 1578016, item 4 1896 1913
25 Oakland 1578016, item 5 1896 1907
25 Oakland 1578016, item 6 1896 1914
26 Pinole 1578016, item 7 1897 1911
27 San Pablo 1578016, item 8 1897 1912
28 Santa Clara 1578016, item 9 1897 1913
29 Merced County 1578016, item 10 1897 1912
29 Merced County 1578016, item 11 1897 1907
30 San Francisco 1578016, item 12 1897 1911
31 Santa Cruz 1578016, item 13 1897 1912
32 San Jose 1578016, item 14 1897 1914
33 Danville 1578016, item 15 1898 1912
34 Yreka 1578016, item 16 1898 1910
35 Pescadero 1578016, item 17 1898 1910
36 Freeport 1578016, item 18 1898 1911
37 Monterey 1578016, item 19 1898 1912
38 Sebastopol 1578016, item 20 1899 1913
39 Salinas 1578016, item 21 1899 1910
40 Sacramento 1578016, item 22 1899 1910
41 San Lorenzo 1578016, item 23 1900 1913
42 San Luis Obispo 1578016, item 24 1900 1914
43 Wilmington 1578016, item 25 1900 1912
44 Ventura, Oxnard 1578016, item 26 1900 1911
45 Novato 1578016, item 26 1900 1911
46 Mountain View 1578016, item 26 1900 1910
47 Rio Vista 1578016, item 27 1900 1910
48 Fairfield 1578016, item 27 1900 1912
48 San Mateo 1578016, item 27 1900 1910
48 Fairfield 1578016, item 28 1900 1945
50 Sonora 1578017, item 1 1900 1910
51 Antioch 1578017, item 1 1900 1912
52 Modesto 1578017, item 1 1900 1914
53 Martinez 1578017, item 1 1900 1912
54 Newark 1578017, item 2 1901 1913
55 San Leandro 1578017, item 2 1901 1914
56 East Oakland 1578017, item 2 1901 1912
57 Madera 1578017, item 2 1901 1910
50 Sonora 1578017, item 3 1900 1937
58 Newcastle 1578017, item 4 1901 1909
59 Guadalupe 1578017, item 4 1901 1910
60 Morro 1578017, item 4 1901 1912
53 Crockett 1578017, item 5 1900 1917
53 Crockett 1578017, item 6 1939 1961
61 Decoto 1578017, item 7 1902 1910
62 Gilroy 1578017, item 7 1902 1912
63 East Oakland 1578017, item 7 1902 1913
64 Chico 1578017, item 8 1902 1910
65 Palo Alto 1578017, item 9 1903 1910
66 Santa Maria 1578017, item 10 1903 1913
67 Warm Springs 1578017, item 11 1903 1911
68 Newman 1578017, item 12 1903 1914
69 Point Loma 1578017, item 13 1904 1909
70 San Juan Bautista 1578017, item 14 1904 1914
71 Livermore 1578017, item 15 1904 1910
72 Vacaville 1578017, item 16 1905 1910
73 Vallejo 1578017, item 17 1905 1911
74 Los Banos 1578017, item 18 1905 1911
75 Turlock 1578017, item 19 1905 1914
76 Lincoln 1578017, item 20 1905 1913
77 Castroville 1578017, item 21 1906 1914
78 Atwater 1578017, item 22 1907 1913
79 Irvington 1578017, item 23 1907 1912
80 Fort Bragg 1578017, item 24 1907 1908
81 Felton 1578017, item 25 1907 1907
82 Oakland 1578017, item 26 1907 1913
83 Oakley 1578017, item 27 1907 1913
84 South San Francisco 1578017, item 28 1907 1909
85 Greenview 1578017, item 29 1908 1910
86 Rodeo 1578017, item 30 1908 1938
86 Rodeo 1578017, item 31 1908 1910
87 Elmhurst 1578017, item 32 1909 1913
88 East San Jose 1578017, item 33 1909 1913
89 San Luis Obispo 1578017, item 34 1909 1910
89 San Luis Obispo 1578017, item 35 1910 1910
92 Martinez 1578017, item 36 1910 1910
93 Napa 1578017, item 37 1910 1910
8 Pleasanton 1578017, item 38 1898 1950

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