http://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Brazil_Civil_Registration_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records)
Here is a link to some of the Brazilian civil records; scroll down to the bottom, you'll.see the civil records that are available. You can only browse through these particular civil records I've browsed church records for brazil, so I can't speak for Brazil civil records. But, I have spent a lot of time browsing Mexican civil records and I can say this: although very time consuming, many of the civil records have indexes included in the books. So, if you have a good idea of the timeframe of the record you're looking for, than it's worth the effort, provided the book has an index. I been looking though a Mexican civil registry book the last 3 nights, it's 2,175 pages, and each page had about 5 registrations. It's partially indexed, but because of that index, it allowed me to locate the one record I was really after. I then took the date from the civil record and located the church record. All of you know that feeling you get when you've located a hard earned family document, well, that makes it worth the effort. Or, you could wait until Ancestry.com has the entire Brazil civil collection searchable. Although there's a massive amount of records, they're moving at a fairly quick pace. -- 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
