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===Brazil Records to Search=== | ===Brazil Records to Search=== | ||
*<u>[[Brazil Civil Registration|Civil Registration]]</u>: Civil registrations of births, marriages, and deaths of individuals became standardized by the 1880s in Brazil. For help with using and locating civil registration records for Brazil see [[Brazil_Civil_Registration-_Vital_Records|Brazil Civil Registration.]] | *<u>[[Brazil Civil Registration|Civil Registration]]</u>: Civil registrations of births, marriages, and deaths of individuals became standardized by the 1880s in Brazil. For help with using and locating civil registration records for Brazil see [[Brazil_Civil_Registration-_Vital_Records|Brazil Civil Registration.]] | ||
*<u>[[Brazil Church Records|Church Records]]</u>: The Roman Catholic Church has long been an integral part of Brazilian society and culture. Most of your ancestors from Brazil were Catholic and were recorded in local church records called parish registers (registros paroquias). The catholic church recorded births, marriages, deaths, and burials in parish registers. Catholic parish records are some of the best in the world, stretching back hundreds of years to the earliest settlements of Brazil. For help with using and locating Catholic Church records for brazil see [[Brazil_Church_Records|Brazil Church Records.]] | *<u>[[Brazil Church Records|Church Records]]</u>: The Roman Catholic Church has long been an integral part of Brazilian society and culture. Most of your ancestors from Brazil were Catholic and were recorded in local church records called parish registers (registros paroquias). The catholic church recorded births, marriages, deaths, and burials in parish registers. Catholic parish records are some of the best in the world, stretching back hundreds of years to the earliest settlements of Brazil. For help with using and locating Catholic Church records for brazil see [[Brazil_Church_Records|Brazil Church Records.]] | ||
===Reading the Records=== | ===Reading the Records=== | ||
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