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The following online records contain the civil registration records for specific districts in Portugal, and are browse only. Collections with an asterisk (*) are in the process of being indexed.
 * FamilySearch has browsable images that you navigate by clicking the Municipality and Civil Parish (Freguesia) where the person of interest lived, then select nascimento (birth), casamento (marriage), or obit (death) to browse for the specific record.
 * Tombo.pt links to the digital images on the district archives website. This includes records not available on FamilySearch. Use the sidebar on the left of the screen to select the Municipality and Civil Parish (Freguesia) where the person of interest lived, then select year range for nascimentos (births), casamentos (marriages), or obits (deaths) to browse for the specific record.
 * The District Archives provides two ways to access the records. There are links to access through the collection page and through searching the database.
 * Collection You can navigate through their collection by clicking the Collections (fundos e colecções) link. From there, select Parish Records (paroquiais), the name of the municipality (concelho) where your ancestor, and the parish they attended. Click the link to access the digital records.
 * Database To search for a specific parish or municipality, search for "concelho de ..." or "paroquia de...". Click the link that for the collection you wish to explore, then use the drop-down menu on the left of the page to access the digital records.

Refer to this website for locating Civil Registration offices in order to determine the municipality where your ancestor would have registered their birth, marriage, or death. If the record exists but has not been digitized, refer to Portugal Civil Registration in Portuguese Archives.