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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.
-=== Requesting Civil Records from Brazil  ===
-Directories of the civil registration offices of Brazil for 1981 and 1993 are available through the FamilySearch Library. The following publications list the addresses of the municipality civil registration offices and will help you identify the municipality a particular town belongs to:
-*''Cadastro de cartórios do Registro Civil 1981 (Survey of Offices of the Civil Registrar 1981''). Rio de Janeiro: IBGE, 1982. (FS Library book 981 J54; film 1667140 item 1)
-*''Cadastro de municípios 1993 (Directory of Municipalities 1993''). 2 vols. Rio de Janeiro: IBGE: 1993–1994. (FS Library book 981 E5c)
-A 1994 edition also lists addresses for each of the municipalities:
-*''Cadastro de municípios 1994 (Directory of Municipalities 1993''). 5 vols. Rio de Janeiro: IBGE, 1995.
 ==Extract Forms==