Isabella, Thank you so much for your response. I know you mentioned these sites before, but at that time I had no leads. I now how a Isabella folder! Thanks again, Tish
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Isabella Baltar <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning Tish and Carolyn, > > The ship manifests from Brazil that you find on Family Search database are > *only* from *Bahia (1855 – 1964) and São Paulo (1960 – 1982).* These > records are only images, no indexing until the moment. So if you fit those > dates, for those two places, you need to open one by one and read them to > find your ancestor. > > The ship manifests from Rio de Janeiro are digitized but they are not on > Family Search database. You will have to search on the National Archives > from Brazil to find the one you are looking for. > > Links for those databases are on my blog, under *Researching in Brazil*, > I cut and pasted below: > > *http://myportuguesegen.blogspot.com/p/researching-in-brazil_4.html > <http://myportuguesegen.blogspot.com/p/researching-in-brazil_4.html>* > > The first link you will find when you open the link above is the one for > the Family Search database, in Brazil. You will need to scroll this page, > at Family Search, in order to find the appropriate link to what you are > looking for. There are several different links for different states. > > Going back to *My Portuguese Gen *link, above, I added, on this same > link/page, web addresses to: > > *Rio de Janeiro state*, including a List of steamers > and passengers manifests that arrived in* Rio de Janeiro Port between > 1805 – 1921. *This is a partial database, constantly updated by the > Brazilian National Archives, they are not indexed, they are images in a pdf > format. You need to have at least a timeframe to research because this is a > huge database with thousands of names. > > and to > > *São Paulo State* where I include links to the museum of immigration > database, with ships lists, hospedarias and photos. > > I try to simplify the search as much as possible separating them by state > and I display specific links for what you can research on those databases. > > If you have any other questions related, please let me know. I may take a > few days to answer, but I will answer, just too busy at work. > > Isabella Baltar > > myportuguesegen.blogspot.com > > On Sunday, November 9, 2014 5:24:24 PM UTC-5, sfig wrote: >> >> Hi group, >> I must have gotten in the middle of this posting. Can someone post the >> link to the manifests? >> Tish >> >> On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Carolyn M <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Roberto, >>> >>> >>> >>> Thank you for that information. It would be very helpful to me if I >>> could find out the name of the ship that Vitorino and his family took to >>> Brazil in October 1911. I would think there would be a database >>> somewhere of ships and their routes with dates included. >>> >>> But could I search on these data bases that you suggested by a specific >>> date, since I know that already? >>> >>> >>> >>> Carolyn >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, November 2, 2014 11:53:34 AM UTC-5, Roberto Machado Velho >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I would like to add some information on the answer of Isabella Baltar. >>>> >>>> The archives in Brazil are still being indexed. But I tried some times >>>> read the list by myself on a specific boat and use the search function >>>> based on names. Archives newer than 1896 or around looked to be indexed. >>>> They are indexing it backwards. But given lot of names were written in the >>>> wrong form on arrival, the name in the index might not be the name you are >>>> looking for. >>>> >>>> Extra information. You must search the databases separately on port, >>>> Rio de Janeiro, Santos (state of Sao Paulo), Recife, Salvador (Bahia) - I >>>> believe these were the main ports to arrive. >>>> By the year you are referring to, there were still portugueses earning >>>> lands on south of Brazil (today Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul). >>>> Independent of them moving to the south of Brazil, it was mandatory to stop >>>> in the ports (Rio or Santos) and register and then move to the South (I >>>> don' t know if this is your case). >>>> >>>> If you imagine your family moved to the south of Brazil, let me know. >>>> I have been in Porto Alegre some months ago and I could get the registers >>>> of the portuguese families that got land there from 1876 on (mainly >>>> Azoreans). None of such archives are in digital form and they are getting >>>> destroyed in bad storage conditions. I am still trying to organize what I >>>> could get. >>>> >>>> Good luck, >>>> >>>> Roberto Velho. >>>> >>>> On Saturday, September 20, 2014 8:32:37 PM UTC+3, Carolyn M wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I would like to know if anyone knows of any online records of ships >>>>> manifests leaving Porto, Portugal to Brazil? >>>>> >>>>> My great-uncle left Porto bound for Brazil on or around October 1911, >>>>> but I don't know the name of the ship. >>>>> >>>>> I also posted this to the Portuguese Genealogy Board, but I'm not sure >>>>> it ever got through. This is my first post, and I want to thank you all >>>>> for being here! >>>>> >>>>> Any information regarding the manifest would be greatly appreciated. >>>>> >>>>> Carolyn >>>>> >>>> -- >>> 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. 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