Alvorada do Sul, Paraná, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
The fever to create new cities, which spread across the State of Paraná in the 1940s, also affected the company Lima, Nogueira & Exportadora, established in the city of Santos in São Paulo.

This group acquired a vast area of ​​land, in the location where the city of Alvorada do Sul stands today, promoting its subdivision in rural and urban areas, sold on a long-term basis. With a good urban plan, they boosted local progress, characterized by an almost exclusively São Paulo population, brought by the colonizing company that promoted good marketing  to achieve its goals.

The extensive territorial portion that surrounded the village was systematically occupied by families of farmers, who did not take long to transform the fertile forest into imposing coffee plantations and productive subsistence crops. The first settlers of the place were men of great initiative and determination, and in 1950, shortly before its emancipation, the municipality had 11,667 inhabitants, and at least 92% of this population was concentrated in the countryside.

Facts like this and the progress achieved, allowed the nucleus to be elevated to the category of emancipated municipality, on November 14, 1951, by State Law No. from Porecatu.

The official installation took place on December 14, 1952, with the possession of elected municipal authorities. In 1955, he held the position of mayor Juliano Fabrício dos Santos, and the councilors were: José Pereira Lima, Antonia Fonta Cezar, Thyrso Silva Gomes, Natal Búfallo de Moraes, Arduvino Pedrão, Gil Pellegrini, Antonio Agnelo de Carvalho, João Piovesan and José Savia. Alvorada do Sul is a Brazilian municipality in the State of Paraná, belonging to the Metropolitan Region of Londrina. Its estimated population in 2005 was 8,982 inhabitants. A commercial and exporting firm established in Santos, acquired a vast area from a real estate company Colonizadora, where the city of Alvorada do Sul stands today. The company proceeded to the measurement and demarcation of the area where the urban perimeter of the future city would be located, and then, the rural dates destined to agriculture, mainly the coffee plantation, were measured and demarcated. Created by State Law No. 790, of November 14, 1951, it was officially installed on December 14, 1952, being separated from Porecatu.

Denomination given by the colonizing company, which believed in the future of the growing population, in a new twilight, then appearing Alvorada, plus  do Sul, due to its geographical location in the national context.

Online Resources

 * Brazil, Paraná, Catholic Church Records, 1731-2013 no Registros Históricos do FamilySearch

Other Institutions
Biblioteca Pública Municipal Rosimara Alves (dentro da Escola) Av. João Alves de Lima, 309 Alvorada do Sul PR 86150-000 Telephone: (43)3661-1942 Fax: (43)3661-1816

Predominantly Catholic, the city also has different types of worship and religions. There is a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in the city.

Cidades@ - IBGE. «Histórico». Consultado em 19 de julho de 2010.