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 == Information Recorded in the Records  ==
-The most important civil records for genealogical research are the birth, marriage, and death registers. These records may be either handwritten or typed and are most often indexed by given name rather than surname.
-Other civil records include emancipações (''emancipations'') made by fathers when their sons reached 18 years of age (not required after 21 years old), land sales (''imóveis''), and corrections of children’s names (''comunicaçes''). For the most part, only birth, marriage, and death records have been filmed by the FamilySearch Library, and these will be of most help in doing genealogical research.
-The information recorded in civil registration records varied over time. Later records generally give more complete information than the earlier ones.
 === Births (''nascimentos'')  ===
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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.
 ==Extract Forms==