Ceilândia, Distrito Federal, Brazil Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Ceilândia ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History
Before the occupation by the white man, the territory was inhabited by Indians (from the Cataguá tribe) and blacks who had run away from the Paracatu and Goiás mines. The first records of occupation of European origin in the region where the administrative region of Ceilândia is located today date from the 18th century, and show that, as traditionally occurred in other Brazilian regions, the first settlements of European origin were stimulated by the search for precious metals and agricultural activity. With the transfer of the capital of Brazil from Rio de Janeiro to the current Federal District, the lands of this region were expropriated by the Government of Goiás, in the period from 1956 to 1958, under the responsibility of the Goiana Commission of Cooperation for the Change of the Capital of Brazil, having, as president, Altamiro de Moura Pacheco.

In 1969, with only nine years of foundation, Brasília already had 79,128 inhabitants in irregular occupations, who lived in clusters close to the center of the capital, where most of these people work, for a population of 500,000 inhabitants throughout the Federal District. . That year, a seminar was held in Brasília on social problems in the newly created Federal District. The emergence of urban areas lacking infrastructure was the most discussed point at that time. Recognizing the seriousness of the problem and its consequences, Governor Hélio Prates da Silveira requested the eradication of the slums to the Secretariat of Social Services, commanded by Otamar Lopes Cardoso. In the same year, a working group was created that later became the Favela Eradication Commission.

The Campaign to Eradicate Invasions was then created, chaired by the first lady, Ms. Vera de Almeida Silveira. In 1971, 17,619 lots were already demarcated, in an area of ​​20 square kilometers, which was later expanded to 231.96 square kilometers, by Decree 2,842, of August 10, 1988. The lots were to the north of Taguatinga, in the old lands of the Guariroba Farm. The lots were intended for the transfer of residents from the IAPI invasions; Tenório, Esperança, Bernardo Sayão and Colombo villages; from the Kerosene and Urubu hills; and Curral das Éguas and Placa das Mercedes, invasions with more than 15 thousand shacks and more than 80 thousand residents. Novacap made the demarcation in 97 days, starting on October 15, 1970.

Ceilândia, today, has about 489,351 inhabitants (PDAD 2015), and is the administrative region with the largest population in the Federal District. The city's patron saint is Nossa Senhora da Glória, whose liturgical feast takes place on August 15th.

March 27, 1971 - Governor Hélio Prates laid the foundation stone of the then satellite city of Ceilândia.

Local Offices

 * 10º Tabelionato de Notas e Protesto de Títulos – Ceilândia/ Cartório do 10º Ofício de Ceilândia CNM 1 Bloco H Lojas 01/03 Bairro: Ceilândia Distrito: Brasília Brasília, Distrito Federal CEP: 72215-508 Telephones: (0xx61) 3371-9000 / 371-4977 / 371-5996  Fax: (0xx61) 3371-8800 Email: 10.oficio@terra.com.br