Brazil Record Finder

The table below can help you decide which records to search.In column 1 find the goal you selected.In column 2 find the types of records that are most likely to have the information you need. Then turn to that section of this outline. (The terms used in columns 2 and 3 are the same as the topic headings used in this outline and in the “Locality Search” section of the Family History Library Catalog.)Column 3 contains additional records that may also be useful.Records containing previous research (genealogies [including family histories], biographies, histories, periodicals, and societies) could provide information for nearly all of the goals. These have been repeatedly listed if they are especially helpful for the goal.

1. If You Need	2. Look First In	3. Then Search
Ages	Civil Registration, Church Records	Census, Emigration and Immigration
Birth dates	Civil Registration, Church Records	Emigration and Immigration
Cities or parishes of foreign birth	Civil Registration, Church Records	Emigration and Immigration, Schools, Military Records
Customs	Social Life and Customs	History, Minorities
Deaths	Civil Registration, Church Records	Cemeteries, Newspapers
Ethnicity	Civil Registration, Church Records	Emigration and Immigration, Societies
Historical backgrounds	History	Gazetteers, Periodicals
Immigration dates	Emigration and Immigration	Census, Biography, Naturalization and Citizenship
Living relatives	Directories	Newspapers, Biography, Court Records
Maiden names	Civil Registration, Church Records	Cemeteries, Military Records
Marriages	Civil Registration, Church Records	Census
Municipal origins and boundaries	Gazetteer, Maps	History
Occupations	Civil Registration, Church Records	Census, Directories
Parents, children, and other family members	Civil Registration, Church Records	Emigration and Immigration, Census, Probate, Genealogy
Physical descriptions	Emigration and Immigration	Military Records
Place-finding aids	Gazetteers	Maps, History
Places of residence	Civil Registration, Church Records	Census, Biography
Previous research	Genealogy	Periodicals, Biography, Societies, Nobility
Religions	Church Records	History
Social activities	Social Life and Customs	Biography, History, Genealogy