Alto Santo, Ceará, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
This municipality is located within the territory in which Indians inhabited, such as the Potiguaras, Paiacus, Tapairius, Panatis, Icós and Ariús. [8]

At the beginning of the 19th century, an urban nucleus emerged around a farm of the time, with jerky and jerky, and the chapel of Menino Deus, in which the dead of the locality were buried until 1880, when the local cemetery was inaugurated. [9]

In 2014, Folha de S. Paulo reported that the city would be hosting a football stadium with a capacity of 20,000 people, larger than the local population. At a cost of R$1.3 million, the work is financed by parliamentary amendments and money from the city hall. Founded on July 1, 1957

Utuva. The toponym has Tupi origin and means U  = water, and  tuba  =  abundant. [6] later Viúva, [7] Alto do Bodes ,  Alto Santo da Viúva  and, since 1938,  Alto Santo.

Online Resources

 * 1982-1999 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Local Offices
1º ofício de registro civil das pessoas naturais e tabelionato de notas, protesto e anexos Cartório Magalhães – 1º Ofício Pç. Pio X, 16 Centro Alto Santo Alto Santo 62970-000 Ceará Telephone/Fax:(0xx88) 3429-1313 Email:cartoriomagalhaes@brisanet.com.br

Online Resources

 * 1725-1971 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Local Churches
PARÓQUIA MENINO DEUS Praça do menino Jesus, s/n Centro Alto Santos CE

Cemeteries
Cemiterio de Alto Santo Rua Fastou Crispim S/N

Localities

 * http://altosanto.ce.gov.br/

Other Institutions
Prefeitura Municipal de Alto Santo R. Cel. Simplício Nogueira Bezerra Centro Alto Santo - CE 62970-000 Telephone: [null (88) 3429-2080]