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Online Records

 * Projeto Immigrantes (Immigrant Project) ($), index
 * Immigrant Ancestors Project
 * Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Choose a volume and then choose Brazil under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".
 * 1808-1842 Registro de estrangeiros, 1808-1842 Register of the arrival of foreigners at the port of Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1842.
 * 1808-1922 Registros de imigrantes, 1808-1922 Records of immigrants entering and leaving the port of Rio de Janeiro; includes records of persons entering and leaving the immigrant hostelry in Rio de Janeiro. Many of the record books include lists of passengers and lists of ships.
 * 1839-1854 de residência a estrangeiros (Residence permits for foreigners) Records of immigrants to Brazil who entered at the port of Salvador, Bahia.
 * 1855-1964 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1865-1890 Movimento de passageiros norte-americanos no porto do Rio de Janeiro, 1865-1890 : uma contribuição para a história da immigração norte-americana no Brasil (Movement of American passengers in the port of Rio de Janeiro, 1865-1890: a contribution to the history of American immigration in Brazil)
 * 1882-1925 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images only; Also at Ancestry.com; images only ($)
 * 1888-1896 Registro de entrada de imigrantes : Porto de Paranaguá, 1888-1896, images
 * 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Brazil
 * 1900-1965 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images; Also at MyHeritage; index & images ($),  Ancestry; index & images ($)
 * 1902-1980 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1960-1982 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images only

Cultural Groups

 * 1808-1820Os franceses residentes no Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1820 French residents of Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1820. Includes index.
 * 1808-1960 Registros del Consulado de España en Río de Janeiro, Brazil (Spain, Consular Records of Emigrants, 1808-1960) These Spanish records include: passport registers, nationality cards, registers of citizens, military records, and civil registration births, marriages, and deaths.
 * 1829-1902 Documents divers concernant l'émigration et les autres papiers du Conseil d'Etat, 1829-1902 Various documents concerning emigration for the Swiss canton of Valais to South America, notably Argentina and Brazil.
 * 1893-1941 Assorted papers on Japanese emigration agents : Overseas Development Company : lists of overseas passengers : for Brazil, indexed in

Dutch

 * 1633-1654 Doopregister der Hollanders in Brasilie, 1633-1654 Baptismal record of Dutch in Recife, Pernmabuco, Brazil, 1633-1654, images. Index
 * 1843-1929 Aantekeningen over emigratie naar Brazilië en Noord Amerika, 1843-1929 Small collection of information concerning emigration to Brazil and the United States from the Netherlands
 * 1858-1862 Naamlijst van eenige personen, die in de jaren 1858-1862 uit Westelijk Zeeuwsch-Vlaanderen naar Brazilië zijn verhuisd List of some persons who emigrated in 1858-1862 from Zeeland, the Netherlands to Brazil.

Germans

 * Brazilian Families of German Origin Martius-Staden Institute of Sciences, Letters and Brazilian-German Cultural Exchange genealogy online collection
 * German Immigration Archive Martius-Staden Institute of Sciences, Letters and Brazilian-German Cultural Exchange German Immigration online collection
 * 1815-1850 1815-1850 Emigrations to Poland, Brazil, the United States, etc. and internal migrations from Kusel, Bavaria Royal State Commissioner
 * Coleção da Sociedade Histo-lógica Cruzeiro do Sul A collection of essays and works chiefly written in German which deal with German immigration to Brazil, see Film Notes for German localities and specific families covered.
 * 1890-1901 Auswanderung nach Brasilien und Venezuela, 1890-1901 Civil records relating to the migration to Brazil and Venezuela of inhabitants of Bromberg, Posen, Germany
 * 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Brazil
 * 1920-1939 Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939 at MyHeritge; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Brazil
 * 1929-1930 Auswandererkartei der Rußlanddeutschen, 1929-1930 Index cards, arranged alphabetically by surname, for German-speaking emigrants from Russia to Germany, Canada, Brazil, Paraguay, etc.

Italians

 * Imigrantes Italianos (Italian Immigrants)
 * Centro Altreitalie Three databases, available online, with the landing lists of Italians in Argentina, Brazil and the United States.
 * Italian Emigration Sites Benelux / France / United Kingdom / Swizerland / American continent / Canada / USA / Argentina / Brazil / Peru / Venezuela / Algérie / Tunisia / Australia / New-Zeland

Online Records at Ministro da Justiça Arquivo Nacional (Minister of Justice National Archives)

 * Entrada de Estrangeiros no Brasil (Foreigners entering Brazil), Port of Rio de Janeiro This site requires registration for a free account. Click on "Consulta (Consultation)" in the left sidebar to access the search engine of indexed records. Records include:
 * Land and colonization records.
 * Register books of permanent immigrants in the immigrant hostels of Ilha das Flores and Pinheiros
 * 1875-1900 Passenger and disembarkation lists – steamships. 1875-1900

Online Records at Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo (Public Archive of the State of São Paulo)

 * Personal Documents (Documentos pessoais Baptism, birth and marriage certificates; registration certificates for foreigners, passbooks, photos, passports, original passages, among other documents that trace the history of immigrant families are located in documentary sets from the most diverse origins.
 * 1907-1962 Passenger Lists (Board Lists of Listas de bordo), 1907-1962 Port of Santos, they contain information such as the name of the steam, the date of entry into the port, the number of people and their nationalities. There are richer on-board lists for 1854 to 1872, which indicate the full name and personal data, such as age, profession and place of birth. Many of them also inform the referral given to these people when they arrive in the country.
 * 1882-1958 Log Books of the Hospedaria de Imigrantes Built between 1886 and 1888, the former “Hospedaria de Imigrantes do Brás” was one of the largest reception centers for foreigners in Brazil. More than two million people passed through its facilities between 1887 and 1978. transcription of the records of the registration books of this hostel for the years 1887 to 1958. In addition, there are also records in the bank of the former Hospedaria do Bom Retiro (predecessor of the Hospedaria do Bras) covering the years 1882 to 1886.
 * 1888-1978 Immigration Certificate Application, Port of Santos The Landing Certificate is a document issued by the Public Archives of the State of São Paulo based on the Port of Santos Landing Lists (1888 to 1978).
 * 1939-1984 Immigration Certificate Application Based on the Registration Sheets of the Specialized Police Station for Foreigners in the Capital (1939 to 1984)
 * Use the certificate certidão links to search for and request copies of records. When you find a record and click on Ver Dados para Emitir Certidao or Solicitar Certidao, click on that to see who is listed in the record with or near them.

Online Records at Acervo digital do Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo (Digital collection of the São Paulo State Immigration Museum)
Acervo digital do Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo


 * Iconografias. Photos, post cards, and portraits of immigrants
 * Requerimentos SACOP. Documents seeking restitution for transporting immigrants to Brazil.
 * Registros de matricula. Immigrant hostel registers 1882-1958
 * Cartografias. Maps showing immigrant colonies and floor plans for the immigrant hostel and the museum of immigration
 * Jornais. Newspapers from immigrant colonies in Brazil 1886-1987
 * Cartas de chamada. Letters offering help to those who wish to settle with their family in Brazil.
 * Listas de bordo. Passenger lists for the Port of Santos 1888-1978.

Online Records at Arquivo Público do Paraná, Registro de Imigrantes (Paraná Public Archive, Registration of Immigrants)
1876-1879 and 1885-1896 - Arquivo Público do Paraná, Registro de Imigrantes Searchable database of approximately 100,000 records.

Online Records Public State Archive of Espirito Santo
Imigrantes Espirito Santo

Immigration records from the public state archive of Espirito Santo, providing name of passenger, age, date of arrival and often name of birth place.


 * 1) Begin your search by entering the first letter of the last name in the space Iniciais.
 * 2) Next click on Filtrar
 * 3) A drop-down list of surnames will appear in the Familia space. Choose the surname you are looking for.
 * 4) Click on Pesquisar to see all results with the surname you have chosen.
 * 5) When your results appear, click on Pesquisar next to the name of interest. A new section will open up.
 * 6) In section 3, click on Pesquisar next to the name of interest. You will then see information about the person you have chose.

Online Records at Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia
Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia

This site has images of passenger lists of arrivals to the Port of Salvador. Choose the images you with to view from the list found on the left side of the page. The information about the images can be found directly below the image viewer.

Offices and Archives to Contact
Nacional do Brasil''' Praça da República, 173 Rio de Janeiro, RJ-20211-350 Brazil Tel.: (00 53 7) 8629436 E-mail: consultas@arquivonacional.gov.br This archive contains a considerable number of extremely important documents on this subject. Users have access to several sets of documents concerning the entry of immigrants into Brazil. Those particularly worthy of mention are:
 * Website
 * Online records and links are listed above in Online Records at Ministro da Justiça Arquivo Nacional (Minister of Justice National Archives)
 * Distance Attendance Module: The Distance Attendance service is designed to facilitate access to documentation from the National Archives for all those who, for whatever reason, cannot attend the institution to conduct their research.
 * Departamento Nacional do Povoamento: This collection holds the immigrant registers of the Ilha das Flores and Pinheiro centres, as well as the Registers of the Rio de Janeiro Central Immigration Agency Register. The registers held date from 1875 to 1974.
 * División de Policía Marítima, Aérea y de Fronteras: This contains the lists of passengers disembarking in Brazilian ports and those from planes landing at its airports. These lists contain a wealth of information for the study of emigration, with details including the entry date and name of the ship/plane, its place of departure and the personal details of the passengers carried. The archive holds passenger lists from 1875 to 1974 for the following ports: Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Recife, São Francisco do Sul, Esperança, Florianópolis, Uruguaiana, Salvador, Aquidauana, Corumbá, Porto Coutinho, Foz do Iguaçu, Guajará-Mirim, Belém, Manaus and Paraguaná.
 * Servicio de Policía Marítima, Aérea y de Fronteras. Registro Nacional de Extranjeros: This Register, created by Federal Decree no. 3010 of 20 August 1938, made it compulsory for all foreign nationals to register at their local police station, where they were issued with a document certifying their temporary or permanent residence in Brazilian Federal Territory. This foreign identity document was known for a long time as form 19. The Arquivo Nacional holds this documentation, which comes from the Federal Police Force, for the period spanning from 1838 to 1987.
 * Inspetoria Geral das Terras e Colonizaçao: This collection contains the lists of immigrants disembarking in the port of Rio de Janeiro between March 1817 and 1896.
 * Policía da Corte: This contains foreign national registration numbers and documents related to the presentation and authorisation of passports between 1808 and 1880.
 * Serie Agricultura- Terras Públicas e Colonizaçao: The most important documents here are those dealing with colonist settlement licences, the location of foreign workers in several provinces, the list of Spanish immigrant families camped at Fort Santa Teresa, etc. This series dates from 1819 to 1890.
 * Serie Interior-Extranjeros: These are the foreigner deportation files and authorisations to remain in Brazil between 1851 and 1947.
 * Serie Interior-Nacionalidades:This contains the application files for Brazilian citizenship (naturalisation).

Memorial do Imigrante Rua Visconte de Parnaíba 1316-CEP 03164-300 Brazil Tel.:(00 55) 21791257, 21791273 E-mail: museudaimigracao@museudaimigracao.org.br
 * Website
 * Online records information and Search Engines are found at Acervo digital do Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo

The Memorial records from the Hospedaria de Brás immigrant centre, opened in 1888. From 1887 this centre received, registered and housed immigrants arriving in São Paulo. The centre concluded its activities in 1978. This collection, which enables users to make online searches of emigrants, holds the following documentation:
 * Listas de pasajeros del Puerto de Santos: Entries are dated between 1888 and 1978. Departures between 1908 and 1950.
 * Libros registro de inmigrantes alojados en la Hospedaria do Bom Retiro y Hospedaria de Brás: A set of 150 registration books from 1882 to 1962
 * Fichas de la Delegación de Extranjeros de São Paulo / Secretaría de Seguridad Pública: These are data sheets ordered alphabetically and by nationality, from 1945 to 1984.
 * Documentos del Registro de Extranjeros producidos por las Delegaciones de Interior de São Paulo (Registration Documents for Extranjeros produced by the Interior Delegations of São Paulo: Documentation from 1938 to the mid 1940's.
 * Fichas de registro de inmigrantes: Documents produced by the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migrations (ICEM) from 1947 to 1970, including files of persons displaced after World War II.

Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo Av. Cruzeiro do Sul, 1777 – Santana São Paulo – SP – CEP 02031-000 Brazil Tel.:(00 55 21) 20898100
 * Contact
 * Website
 * Online records and links are listed above in Online Records at Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo (Public Archive of the State of São Paulo)
 * Request for Certificates The Public Archives of the State of São Paulo issues certificates of the documents it holds, respecting the criteria of organization and conservation of the documents. The certificate may be in extract, in full or negative, depending on the specific case.

Inspección de inmigración en el puerto de Santos: This archive holds this series issued by the Secretariat of the agricultural and provisions sections. It contains monthly tables of migratory movements, immigrant entry certificates and passenger lists. The archive website has a specific portal for immigration to São Paulo, with an emigrant search engine. -

Finding the Town of Origin in Brazil
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Italy, see Brazil Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Brazil Emigration and Immigration
"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country. (See Immigration into Italy.) Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Immigration Background

 * After 1530, the Portuguese' started to settle in Brazil in significant numbers.
 * By 1550, the colonists started to bring African slaves.
 * From 1500, when the Portuguese reached Brazil, until its independence in 1822, from 500,000 to 700,000 Portuguese settled in Brazil, 600,000 of whom arrived in the 18th century alone.
 * In the 18th century, large waves of Portuguese settled the country, in the wake of the discovery of gold in the region of Minas Gerais.
 * From 1550 to 1850, some 4 million slaves were brought to Brazil. The average survival of an African slave in Brazil was merely seven years after arrival.T he natural growth of the slave population was always very small.
 * In the early 19th century, Brazil was mainly composed of people of three different origins: 'the indigenous inhabitants, the Portuguese and their descendants, the Africans and descendants, and, naturally, people of varying degrees of "racial" mixture.
 * Maria Stella Ferreira Levy suggests the following periodization of the process of immigration to Brazil:
 * 1820–1876: small number of immigrants (about 6,000 per year), predominance of Portuguese (45.73%), with significant numbers of Germans (12.97%);
 * 1877–1903: large number of immigrants (about 71,000 per year), predominance of Italians (58.49%);
 * 1904–1930: large number of immigrants (about 79,000 per year), predominance of the Portuguese (36.97%);
 * 1931–1963: declining number of immigrants (about 33,500 per year), predominance of the Portuguese (38.45%).


 * From 1824, immigrants from Central Europe started to populate what is nowadays the region of São Leopoldo, in the province of Rio Grande do Sul. These German immigrants were mainly "oppressed peasants and former soldiers of the army of Napoleon".
 * Between 1820 and 1876, 350,117 immigrants entered Brazil. Of these, 45.73% were Portuguese, 35.74% of "other nationalities", 12.97% Germans, while Italians and Spanish together did not reach 6%. The total number of immigrants per year averaged 6,000. Many immigrants, particularly the Germans, were brought to settle in rural communities as small landowners. They received land, seed, livestock and other items to develop.
 * From 1877 to 1903, almost two million immigrants arrived, at a rate of 71,000 per year. Large numbers of Europeans, especially Italians, started to be brought to the country to work in the harvest of coffee.
 * From 1904 to 1930, 2,142,781 immigrants came to Brazil. Italian immigration had, at this stage, a drastic reduction: in this period they were only 19,000 annually. The Portuguese constituted 38% of entries, followed by Spaniards with 22%. A number of Jewish immigrants' arrived in the 1920s.
 * From 1932 to 1935 immigrants from Japan constituted 30% of total admissions.
 * During the 1970s, Brazil received about 32,000 Lebanese immigrants escaping the civil war, as well as smaller numbers of Palestinians and Syrians.
 * Between 1974 and 1980, Brazil also received almost 500 Portuguese settler families fleeing Angola or Mozambique as well as some 1,000 exiles from Portugal proper,