Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Civil Registration, 1804-2013

What is in This Collection?

This collection includes civil records of births, marriages, and deaths with corresponding indexes created by various civil registration offices in the state of Rio de Janeiro from 1829 to 2012. Some of these records have been indexed and are searchable as part of this collection. Earlier records are completely handwritten. Later records are handwritten on pre-typed forms. Additional images and indexed records will be published as they become available.

Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.

Computer Aided Indexing (CAI)

Some or all of the indexed records for this collection were created using Computer Aided Indexing (CAI) from records digitized by FamilySearch or its partners. For more information on CAI see FamilySearch Computer Aided Indexing.

Reading These Records

These records are written in Portuguese. For help reading these records see Portuguese Genealogical Word List and Brazil Language and Languages.

To Browse This Collection

What Can These Records Tell Me?

The following information may be found in these records:

Collection Content

For additional details about these records and help using them see Brazil Civil Registration - FamilySearch Historical Records.

Sample Image

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  1889 Birth Record

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  1890 Marriage Record

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  1889 Death Record

Inventory

For a list of all the titles included in this Historical Records publication see Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Civil Registration - Inventory.