Record Atlas
50 FamilySearch collections · 7 archives · 1,432 places · 1598–2024
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Brazil

Where the records of Brazil are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 44,602,260 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.

Where to start in Brazil

1 of the 1 checked source here can be opened tonight. 1is an index with no images. On top of that, 9 worldwide services reach Brazil without a subscription.

6 more institutions are listed here and have never been checked — nobody has opened them, written to them, or found out what they hold. They are on the map as grey because that is what they are, and the honest reading of this page is 1 known-open, 6 unknown.

Write to Arquivo Nacional (Brasil) for what is not online. FamilySearch has 50 collections covering it, running 1598–2024, 44,602,260 indexed records. No jurisdiction region covers Brazil yet, so this atlas cannot say whose archive held this ground in a given year — and it will not guess.

1,432 places placed, 2 volumes walked. Open Brazil on the map, or tell us what is missing.

The archives

  • Arquivo Público do Estado do Espírito Santo unsurveyed Vitória, Brazil

    Espírito Santo's state archive, a small state with a large Italian and Pomeranian settlement history. Harvested and its address opened, nothing more: what it holds, what is online and what it costs to look are unchecked here.

  • Arquivo Público do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul unsurveyed Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Rio Grande do Sul's state archive — German and Italian colony records, and the civil registration of the far south. Harvested and its address opened, nothing more: what it holds, what is online and what it costs to look are unchecked here.

  • Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo unsurveyed São Paulo, Brazil

    São Paulo's state archive — the state that took the largest share of Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese emigration to Brazil, and holds the immigration records that go with it. Harvested and its address opened, nothing more: what it holds, what is online and what it costs to look are unchecked here.

  • Arquivo Público Mineiro unsurveyed Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Minas Gerais' state archive, with its own online catalogue. Harvested and its address opened, nothing more: what it holds, what is online and what it costs to look are unchecked here.

  • Arquivo Nacional (Brasil) unsurveyed Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Brazil's national archive. Civil registration in Brazil is held by cartórios and the states rather than here, so this is the top of the system rather than where a birth record sits. Harvested and its address opened, nothing more: what it holds, what is online and what it costs to look are unchecked here.

  • Fundação Pedro Calmon — Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia unsurveyed Salvador, Brazil

    Bahia's state archive, under the foundation that runs it — which is the address that answers. Harvested and its address opened, nothing more: what it holds, what is online and what it costs to look are unchecked here.

  • SIAN — Sistema de Informações do Arquivo Nacional index Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    The Arquivo Nacional's own catalogue, and the thing worth linking rather than the institution's front page: it is where a fonds is looked up. An index, not images.

And 12 worldwide providers reach Brazil too — the full list.

50 FamilySearch collections

Grouped by the ground each one covers, nationwide. A free account opens the images; some are restricted to a Family History Centre.

Brazil — nationwide 50

2 more collections, contributed

A directory David assembled, sorted by what kind of record each one is. Read this differently from the rest of the page. The descriptions are his, not an archive's catalogue, and nobody here has opened the volumes behind them. Every link was tried on 2026-09-20 and answered; the ones that did not are not listed.

Immigration and emigration 1
Jewish and minority 1

1,432 places, 2 volumes

The 250 carrying the most collections are listed; 1,182 more are in Brazil and on the map. Every place lists them all.

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