Brazil, Cemetery Records, 1799-2024

What is in This Collection?

The collection contains cemetery records from the cemeteries across Brazil. four municipal cemeteries in Belo Horizonte: Bonfim, Consolação, Paz, and Saudade from 1897-2012. It also contains five municipal cemeteries in Brazil: Santa Helena, São João Batista, Santo Alberto, São Francisco, and Nossa Senhora Aparecida. 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.

Reading These Records

These records are written in Portuguese. For help reading them see:

• Portuguese Genealogical Word List
• Portuguese Letter-writing Guide
• Brigham Young University: Portuguese Script Tutorial

To Browse This Collection

You can browse through images in this collection using the waypoints on the Collection Browse Page for Brazil, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Cemetery Records, 1897-2012.

What Can These Records Tell Me?

The following information may be found in these records:

Name, age, and gender of the deceased Occupation Marital status/name of spouse Nationality Children's names Birthplace

Cause of death Cemetery name (place of burial) Date of burial Plot location

Collection Content

Sample Images

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  1994 Cemetery Record

Coverage Table