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Archives
This section describes the major repositories of genealogical and historical records and sources for Brazil.

There are many repositories with genealogical information for Brazilian research:


 * National archives and libraries (arquivos e bibliotecas nacionais)
 * State archives (arquivos do Estado)
 * District and municipal civil registry offices (Cartório Distrital e Municipal do Registro Civil)
 * Diocese and parish archives
 * Private and public libraries
 * Historical and genealogical societies

Records of genealogical value at district, state, and national archives include the following:

The Biblioteca Nacional (National Library) and state and city public archives also have:

Some helpful guides to federal, state, municipal, and church records are:


 * Catálogo dos Arquivos Brasileiros (Catalog of Brazilian Archives). Rio de Janeiro: Arquivo Nacional, 1977.


 * Guia Brasileiro de Fontes para a História da África, da Escravidão Negra e do Negro na Sociedade Atual: Fontes Arquivistas (Brazilian Guide of Sources for the History of Africa, Black Slavery and of the Negro in the Present Society). 2 vols. Rio de Janeiro: Arquivo Nacional, 1988. Volume 2 has information of the collections in the National Archives, in Rio de Janeiro.

If you plan to visit one of these repositories, contact the organization, and ask for information about its collection, hours, services, and fees. Some of that information may also be found on the Internet. You may need to obtain a letter of introduction from your embassy before visiting a repository. For help writing to a Portuguese archive, use the Portuguese Letter-Writing Guide.

National Government Archives
Addresses for the national archives of Brazil and other national repositories are as follows:

National Archive (Arquivo Nacional) Praça da Republica 173 - Centro Rio de Janeiro 20211-350 Telephone: 55 21 2179-1228 E-mail: [mailto:ascom@arquivonacional.gov.br ascom@arquivonacional.gov.br] Email #2: [mailto:consultas@an.gov.br consultas@an.gov.br] Email #3: [mailto:consultasdf@an.gov.br consultasdf@an.gov.br] Website: Arquivo Nacional Website #2: Arquivo Nacional

Historical Archive of the Army (Arquivo Histórico do Exército) Praça Duque de Caxias, number 25 - 6th floor - Centro Rio de Janeiro 20221-260] Telephone: 55 21 2519-5602 Email: [mailto:ch_a5@ahex.eb.mil.br ch_a5@ahex.eb.mil.br] Website: Historical Archive of the Army Website #2: Historical Archive of the Army

Archive of the Navy (Arquivo da Marinha) Praça Barão de Ladário s/n, Ilha das Cobras - Centro Rio de Janeiro 20091-000 Telephone: 55 21 2104-6994/2104-6723/2104-5488/2104-5487 Email: [mailto:dphdm.arquivo@marinha.mil.br dphdm.arquivo@marinha.mil.br] Website: Archive of the Navy Website #2: Archives Collection of the Brazilian Navy

Archives of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (Arquivo do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro) Av. Augusto Severo, nº 8, 9º / 13º andar - Glória Rio de Janeiro 20021-040 Telephone: 55 21 2252-4430/2509-5107/2224-7338 Email: [mailto:info@ihgb.org.br info@ihgb.org.br] Email #2: [mailto:presidencia@ihgb.org.br presidencia@ihgb.org.br] Website: Archives of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute Website #2: IHGB

State Archives
In Brazil each state has its own archives that are separate from those of the national government. They serve as repositories for records about their particular area. Records of genealogical value at state archives may include the following:

The state archives of Brazil are open to members of the public who have proper identification and permission (that is, a letter of introduction from your country’s embassy, a university official, or another notable organization). The listing of state and federal district archives may be found at Public Archives of the State and Federal District.

General Archive of the State of Acre (Arquivo Geral do Estado do Acre) Av. Epaminondas Jácome, nº 3047 Rua Riachuelo, nº 307 - José Augusto Rio Branco AC 69908-420 Telephone: (68) 3224-3855 Email: [mailto:arquivo.sga@ac.gov.br arquivo.sga@ac.gov.br] Website: Public Archive Division of the State of Acre

Public Archives of Alagoas (Arquivo Público de Alagoas) R. Sá e Albuquerque, s / n - Jaraguá, Maceió - AL, 57025-901/57022-180 Praça D. Pedro II - 57 - Centro Maceió - AL 57020-130 Telephone: 55 82 3315-7879/3326-6722 Email: [mailto:contato@arquivopublico.al.gov.br contato@arquivopublico.al.gov.br] Email #2: [mailto:alarquivopublico@gmail.com alarquivopublico@gmail.com] Website: Public Archives of Alagoas Website #2: Public Archive of Alagoas Website #3: Arquivo Público de Alagoas - APA

Fundação Cultural do Estado de Amapá FUNDECAP Av. Ivaldo Veras s/nº - Jardim Marcozero Macapá - AP - CEP. 68903-032 BRASIL Tel.: (096) 3212-5125 Arquivo Público Estadual de Amazonas Rua Bernardo Ramos, 265 69005-320 Manaus - AM BRASIL Tel.: (092) 3232-3878

Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia Ladeira de Quintas, 50 - Baixa de Quintas 40320-140 Salvador - BA BRASIL Tel.: (071) 233-4455 Fax: (071) 233-5112/244-2747

Arquivo Público do Estado do Ceará Rua Senador Alencar, 348 - Centro CEP: 60030-050 - Fortaleza CE Fone: (0xx85) 3101.2615 Website: [mailto:apec@secult.ce.gov.br apec@secult.ce.gov.br]

Arquivo Público do Distrito Federal SAP, Lote 7 - Bloco 41 - NOVACAP 71215-000 Brasília - DF BRASIL Tel.: (061) 361-1454 Fax: (061) 233-2191 Website: www.gdf.gov.br/arpdf/info.html

Arquivo Público Estadual do Espírito Santo Rua Pedro Palácios, 76 - Cidade Alta 29015-160 Vitória - ES BRASIL Tel.: (027) 3223-7524 Fax: (027) 3223-2952

Arquivo Histórico do Estado de Goiás Centro Cultural Marieta Telles Machado, Anexo 2 - Setor Central Praça Dr. Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, 2 - Goiânia - GO - CEP. 74003010 Brasil Tel: (0**62) 3212-4606

Arquivo Público do Estado do Maranhão Rua Nazaré, 218 - Centro 65010-410 São Luís - MA BRASIL Tel.: (098) 3232-4544 E-mail: [mailto:apem@funcma.ufma.br apem@funcma.ufma.br]

Arquivo Público de Mato Grosso Centro Político Administrativo - CPA Palácio Paiaguás - Bloco 3 78050-970 Cuiabá - MT BRASIL Tel.: (065) 313-3103 Fax: (065) 313-2253 Website: http://www.apmt.mt.gov.br/

Arquivo Público do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul Av. Fernando Corrêa da Costa 559 - Centro Campo Grande - MS - CEP. 79002-820 BRASIL Tel.: (067) 382-5440

Arquivo Público Mineiro (Minas Gerais) Av. João Pinheiro, 372 – Funcionários Belo Horizonte, MG 30130-180 Telefax: (31) 3269-1060 / Website: http://www.cultura.mg.gov.br/?task=home&amp; sec=5

Arquivo Público do Estado do Pará Travessa Campos Sales, 273 - Comércio 66019-050 Belém - PA BRASIL Tel.: (091) 241-9700 Fax: (091) 241-9097 Website: http://www.arqpep.pa.gov.br/

Arquivo Administrativo da Paraíba Rua Presidente Kennedy, s/nº - subsolo - Paraíba - PB - CEP. 58042-100 BRASIL Tel: (0**83) 3211-6259  Arquivo Público do Estado do Paraná Rua dos Funcionários 1796 Cabral - 80035-050 Curitiba - Paraná Brazil Telefone 41 3352-2299 Fax 41 3252-1728 Website: http://www.pr.gov.br/arquivopublico/

Arquivo Público Estadual de Pernambuco Rua do Imperador D. Pedro II 371-Santo Antônio 50010-240 Recife - PE BRASIL Tel.: (081) 224-0085 Tel./Fax: (081) 224-0620

Arquivo Público e Museu Histórico do Piauí Rua Coelho Rodrigues, 1016 - Centro 64000-160 Teresina - PI BRASIL Tel.: (086) 3221-5541

Arquivo Público do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Rua do Riachuelo, 287 Centro 20230-011 Rio de Janeiro - RJ BRASIL Tel.: (021) 232-6299 Tel/Fax: (021) 232-7338/221-7960 Website: www.aperj.rj.gov.br/

Arquivo Público Estadual do Rio Grande do Norte Rua José Agnaldo de Barros 2872 Parque das Colinas 59065-000 Natal - RN BRASIL Tel./Fax: (084) 207-3351 E-mail: [mailto:vanilde@secrin.m.gov.br vanilde@secrin.m.gov.br]

Arquivo Histórico do Rio Grande do Sul Memorial do Rio Grande do Sul na Rua Sete de Setembro 1020- 2º andar, Centro Porto Alegre-RS-Cep: 90010-191 Brasil Phone: (51) 3227.0883 Website: http://www.cultura.rs.gov.br/principal.php?inc=arq_hist Arquivo Público do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul Rua Riachuelo, 1031 Centro Histórico 90010-270 Porto Alegre - RS Tel.Fax: 55(51) 3288-9100 Website: www.apers.rs.gov.br/   E-mail: apers@sarh.rs.gov.br

Arquivo Geral do Estado de Rondônia Esplanada das Secretarias Av. Farquar, s/n 78900-350 Porto Velho - RO BRASIL Tel.: (069) 222-2801

Arquivo Público do Estado de Roraima Rua Miguel Lupe Martins, s/n - São Pedro 69306-490 Boa Vista - RR BRASIL Tel.: (095) 3621-3871

Arquivo Público do Estado de Santa Catarina Av. Mauro Ramos, 1264 - Centro 88020-302 Florianópolis - SC BRASIL Telefone(s): (48) 224-6080; 224-0890; Fax: (48) 224-7019 Website: http://www.geocities.com/arquivoscatarinenses/apesc.htm E-mails: [mailto:arquivopublicosc@sea.sc.br arquivopublicosc@sea.sc.br,] [mailto:associacaoamigos.sc@bol.com.br associacaoamigos.sc@bol.com.br]

Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo Rua Voluntários da Pátria, 596 - Santana 02010-000 São Paulo - SP BRASIL Tel.: (011) 6221-4785 E-mail: [mailto:fausto@mandic.com.br fausto@mandic.com.br] Website: www.arquivoestado.sp.gov.br

Arquivo Público Estadual de Sergipe Praça Fausto Cardoso, 348 - Centro 49010-080 Aracaju - SE BRASIL Tel.: (079) 3179-1908 Arquivo Público Estadual de Tocantins 99000 Palmas, TO BRASIL

Dioceses and Parish Archives
Brazil holds fourty-four ecclesiastical provinces, divided into 215 dioceses and 45 archdioceses, each of which has many records of genealogical and historical value for its regions. . Each dioceses or archdioceses contains many parishes. Some dioceses of the Catholic Church have gathered copies of local parish church records into the diocese archives.

Archdioceses and dioceses records usually include:
 * Chaplaincy records (registros de capelania)
 * Dispensations (dispensas)
 * Ecclesiastical court matters
 * Inquisition records (diligências de habilitação/inquisição)
 * Marriage processes (processos de casamento)
 * Marriage bonds/banns (dispensos de matrimônio e casamentos)
 * Parish censuses (censos/confessados)
 * Parish registers (registros paroquiales)
 * Pedigree records (autos de genere)
 * Priesthood ordinations (ordenações do sacerdócio)
 * Wills (testamentos)

Catholic Church records less than 100 years old are usually kept by the local parish, which may also have earlier records. Some of these records have been microfilmed by the Family History Library, and are found through the FamilySearch catalog.

For records not available through the Family History Library, you can write to these archives and request brief searches of their records. Use the Portuguese Letter-Writing Guide. For additional information, see Brazil Church Records.

For addresses to the archdioceses archives, visit the Wikipedia page List of Catholic Dioceses in Brazil. From there, you can find contact information for the parishes within the dioceses.

Private and Public Libraries
Brazilian libraries have collected published sources such as local histories, phone directories, maps, newspapers, and genealogies. See Brazil Genealogy for information about compiled family histories.

The National Library has an extensive collection of manuscripts and published sources. For information, write to:

Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (National Library Establishment) Av. Rio Branco 219-239 20040-008 Rio de Janeiro, RJ BRASIL Tel 55 21 3095 3879 Fax 55 21 3095 3811 Internet: http://www.bn.br/site/default.htm

Other useful libraries include:

Instituto Genealógico Brasileiro Rua Sete de Abril, 230 01044-000 São Paulo, SP BRASIL Tel.: (11) 257-4840

Universidade de São Paulo Cidade Universitária Armando de Salles Oliveira CP 8191 05508-900 São Paulo BRASIL Fax: (11) 815-2142 E-mail: [mailto:dtsibi@org.usp.br dtsibi@org.usp.br] Internet: http://www2.usp.br/portugues/index.usp

Many of the archives, museums, libraries, and universities of Brazil can be found on the Internet at:


 * http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/latam.html
 * http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/subject/libraries/

Inventories, Registers, and Catalogs
Many archives have catalogs, inventories, guides, or periodicals that describe their records and how to use them. If possible, study these guides before you visit, or use the records during your visit so you can use your time more effectively. See:


 * Catálogo dos arquivos brasileiros (Catalog of the Brazilian archives). Rio de Janeiro: Arquivo Nacional, 1977.

A guide to the archives and libraries for slavery records in Brazil is:


 * Guia brasileiro de fontes para a história da África, da escravidão negra e do negro na sociedade atual: fontes arquivistas (Brazilian Guide of Sources for the History of Africa, Black Slavery and of the Negro in the Present Society). 2 vols. Arquivo Nacional: Departamento de Imprensa Nacional, 1988. This guide describes the records in federal, state, and ecclesiastical archives.

Civil and District Civil Registry Offices
In Brazil, records created by the local government, including birth, death, and marriage records, are kept in the local registry offices (Cartório Municipal) or the district registry offices (Cartório Distrital). These records are available to the public. For more information about these offices and their records, see Brazil Civil Registration.

If records are not available through the Family History Library from the towns your ancestors were from, you may need to write to the registry offices in that area. For help writing a letter in Portuguese, see the Portuguese Letter-Writing Guide.

Libraries
Argentina Library Dr. Juan Álvarez (Biblioteca Argentina Dr. Juan Álvarez) Roca Pte. Julio Argentino 731 Rosario, Santa Fe Telephone: (54341) 480 2701 Email: [mailto:bib-novedades@rosario.gov.ar bib-novedades@rosario.gov.ar] Website: Argentina Library Dr. Juan Álvarez Website #2: Biblioteca Argentina Dr. Juan Álvarez

Museums
Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Argentine Museum (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia) Centenario Park Av. Angel Gallardo 470 Buenos Aires Telephone: (54 11) 4982 4494/6595 Email: [mailto:secretaria@macn.gov.ar secretaria@macn.gov.ar] Email #2: [mailto:info@macn.gov.ar info@macn.gov.ar] Website: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia Website #2: Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Science Museum Website #3: Natural Sciences Bernardino Rivadavia Museum Website #4: Discover the Dinosaurs of Argentina Website #5: Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Argentine Museum


 * The Argentine Natural Science Museum was founded in 1823. It's one of the most complete natural science museums in Latin America and boasts exhibits on some of the many dinosaurs discovered in Argentina.  There are exhibition rooms dedicated to geology, sealife, paleontology, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, the planets, the Antarctic, the study of bones, and more, plus a room for temporary exhibitions, an audiovisual room and a cafe.

For a list of museums in Brazil go to List of museums in Brazil in Wikipedia.