Igaci, Alagoas, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
Igaci, a word from the Tupi-Guarani language, means eyes of water or source of a river. First called Olhos D`Àgua do Accioli (today Igaci), it was born at the foot of a mountain (today Serra de Igaci), a place where sweet springs flowed and still today. As it is inherent to every living being and in particular to the human being who always tends to settle in the vicinity of water sources to facilitate their daily life and motivated by the abundant natural wealth, indigenous peoples and later whites and blacks established their shelters. , their dwellings at the foot of this elevation, thus forming the first human agglomeration in this vicinity. Its birth took place in the 19th century between the 50s and 60s, period in which the coast of Alagoas was already suffering from the scarcity of its natural resources as a result of the exploitation of its coastal forest destroyed by the extraction of hardwood and in particular the "PAU BRASIL", by the occupation of the Portuguese who invested in sugarcane monoculture in that region. With the depletion of these natural resources, many Portuguese families decided to enter the country region of the State in search of new sources of income, later fleeing to the intermediate region (wild) of the State because they did not know how to face the new reality. At the birth of Igaci there is the presence of the Accyoli, Torres and Albuquerque families that almost two centuries ago established their residences giving rise to a new people,

Emancipation: 10/04/1958 Emancipação: 04/10/1958

Olhos D`Àgua do Accioli

Local Offices
Ofício de registro civil das pessoas naturais Cartório do Registro Civil

Endereço: Rua do Comércio s/n

Bairro: Centro

Distrito: Igaci

Cidade: Igaci

CEP: 57620-000

Estado: Alagoas

Telefone: (0xx82) 3423-1228 / 99988-1919

Fax: (0xx43) 3423-1228

Email: cartorioigaci@hotmail.com

Other Institutions

 * Biblioteca Pública Municipal Izabel Barbosa Calixto Praça Antônio Toledo, s/n - Centro Telefone:(82) 3423-1327 E-mail:prefeituraigaci@ig.com.br


 * Prefeitura Municipal de Igaci End.: Pç. Antônio Toledo, 148 – Centro CEP: 57620-000 Tel.: (82) 3423-1212 Fax: (82) 3423-1384 Email: prefeituraigaci@ig.com.br Site:http://www.igaci.al.gov.br/