Santa Isabel do Pará, Pará, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
The history of Santa Izabel is related to the construction and operation of the Belém-Bragança Railroad that linked the capital Belém to the city of Bragança, located in the northeast of the state. Many northeastern migrants came along this road, co-opted to the region, mainly during the "Battle of Rubber" and agricultural colonization projects promoted by the Brazilian State to occupy the railroad's logistical corridor. The village emerged with the implementation of the Nossa Senhora de Benevides Colonial Nucleus in 1877, when Capt. Valentim José Ferreira who strategically installed himself in Boca da Sexta Travessa (Aratanha), (today an extensive neighborhood), starting the village - and therefore considered the founder of the municipality. By Law No. 2,927 of March 31, 1938, with the new judicial division of the State, Santa Izabel, it became a city, continuing as the 2nd judicial district of the Comarca de Castanhal, being the first Substitute Judge Dr. Lucio Amaral. The territorial division and the judicial and administrative organization of the State for the five-year period of 1939 and 1943, took part of the territory from the municipality, reincorporating it into that of Belém. With the creation of new municipal units by State Decree nº 4.405 of December 30, 1943, the entire area that constituted the municipality of Benevides was computed, to be welded to another separated from Belém and thus constitute the municipality of Ananindeua.

Online Resources

 * 1815-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Local Offices
Ofício de registros públicos e tabelionato de notas Av. Francisco Amâncio, 1081 Centro Santa Isabel do Pará Santa Isabel do Pará 68790-000 Pará Telephone: (0xx91) 3744-1155 E-mail: cartorioteixeira10@hotamail.com

Online Resources

 * 1930-1976 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Local Churches
Paróquia Santa Izabel de Portugal Praça Getúlio Vargas, 1260 Centro 68790-000 Santa Izabel RN Telephone: (91) 3744-1453

Cemeteries
Cemitério Público de Santa Izabel Tv. Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco, 896 São Brás 66020-220 Telephone: (91) 3347-4820

Other Institutions
Prefeitura Municipal de Santa Izabel Av. Rio Branco, 1060 Centro 67792-972 Telephone: (91) 3744-11245 E-mail: ouvidoria@sntaizabel.pa.gov.br Website: http://www.santaizabel.pa.gov.br