Ubirajara, When researching in Brasil the best way is the one everybody suggested, Family Search web site, then to the desired country, state, city and so on. Any type of research demands a long amount of time, sometimes years, and we cannot expect that we are going to find quickly what we want. We may find it or we may not. It took me a couple of years to get to know my family to the point I'm now. My basic research, to find out about family members I never heard about before was all, really all, based on researching every book from Family Search. It wasn't a random search, at least I knew where they lived as you.
In Brazil, civil documents prior to 1900's usually are hold by the state historical archives, in your case, Arquivo Historico e Estadual do Rio Grande do Norte. With exception of Family Search and Brazilian National Archives, in Rio de Janeiro, the majority of archival documents in Brazil are not digitized, much less on line. You can contact Colegio Brasileiro de Genealogia, situated in Rio de Janeiro, to find more about researching in RGN and researchers in that area. This is the Brazilian genealogy association with lots of good and helpful people. I'm from Brazil and on my blog you will find a link for this and other places to do your research. Isabella Baltar myportuguesegen.blogspot.com On Saturday, January 4, 2014 6:02:45 PM UTC-5, rcapodc wrote: > > Ubirajara, > > You may have to login with a username and password at the ‘home page’ of > Family Search. It should be up in the right-hand corner. Pick a username > and then a password. Many of the digital images require that you sign-in. > This is something that is requested by the government of whatever country > owns the books. Try that and hopefully you will be able to see the digital > images. > > Rosemarie > > > *From:* Cheri Mello <javascript:> > *Sent:* Saturday, January 04, 2014 2:28 PM > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:> > *Subject:* Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] How can I find the name of my ancestor > that came to Brazil > > Repost for Ubirajara: > > Marylin, thanks! I do everytihing you told me, but I just can see the > book. I can't get see the names of people. Can you help me about this? I > found the book where I found out my most distant ancestor from Caicó City, > Rio Grande do Norte State, Sant'Ana Parish 1778-1967. She is mother of my > great grandmother: Josefa Gomes de Oliveira (1883). > > Please, help me. > > Ubirajara. > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
