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| Because divorce was not common until the 1980s, Brazil has very few divorce records. People would get a desquite, which is a legal separation, but the Catholic Church forbade divorce. | | Because divorce was not common until the 1980s, Brazil has very few divorce records. People would get a desquite, which is a legal separation, but the Catholic Church forbade divorce. |
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| === Civil Registration Records at the FamilySearch Library ===
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| The FamilySearch Library has microfilmed the civil registration records of many municipalities in Brazil. Civil records from the late 1800s to the 1920s and 1930s, and often up to the 1990s, have been filmed for the states of Pará, Ceará, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul. Some civil registration records have also been filmed for the states of Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe, and Paraíba.
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| You will need to know the town your ancestor lived in. Although more than one town may comprise a municipality, the civil records are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog for each town and not just by the municipality. Some municipalities are small and only have one civil registration office, but in the larger cities there might be several civil registration offices.
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| The specific holdings of the FamilySearch Library are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog. To find civil registration records in the FamilySearch Library, search in the "Subject" section of the catalog for:
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| BRAZIL, [STATE], [TOWN] - CIVIL REGISTRATION
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| The library’s collection continues to grow as new records are microfilmed and added to the collection.
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| === Requesting Civil Records from Brazil === | | === Requesting Civil Records from Brazil === |