AZORES ISLANDS
THE DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
The CCA or Centro de Conhecimento dos Açores http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt
is the digital repository for most of the
civil and ecclesiastical records from the nine islands that are part of the
Azores archipelago.
If you need help translating or transcribing Portuguese records visit my Paleography page where I talk about Portuguese records and how translating and transcribing affects your research.
https://myportuguesegen.blogspot.com/p/books-and-documents-are-important.html
If you need help translating or transcribing Portuguese records visit my Paleography page where I talk about Portuguese records and how translating and transcribing affects your research.
https://myportuguesegen.blogspot.com/p/books-and-documents-are-important.html
Azores Parish Records (Pesquisa de Registros Paroquiais)
For birth, marriage and death
records from the Catholic Church, from 1541 until 1911, click here:
Indexes for parish records
Indexes for different parishes in Pico, Corvo, Faial, São Jorge, and other regions in Portugal can be found in the link below from Citcem (Centro de Investigação Disciplinar), from Minho University.
Passports (Pesquisa de Passaportes)
For passports from Terceira,
Graciosa and São Jorge (since 1770) click on Angra do Heroismo;
For passports from Corvo, Pico,
Faial and Flores (since 1836) click on Horta, and
For passports from São Miguel and
Santa Maria click on Ponta Delgada.
Translated headline from the Passport Request Book from Ponta Delgada Archives.
Indexes for a few Passport Registers in Azores
To facilitate finding your ancestor in the Passport Register, I have been organizing different Google searchable spreadsheets for each book, and based on the information provided by the two of the three main libraries, the one in Horta and the other in Ponta Delgada. Right now I was able to organize a few books that are listed below. If you do not see the book and the date you are looking for, you can always go to the Archeevo website, which hosts a partial Azores database and check their list. The two links will take you to the Archeevo database.
Ponta Delgada: https://arquivos.azores.gov.pt/details?id=1076970
Passport indexes:
Horta, Faial: 1839 to 1950
Horta, Faial: 1850 to 1956
Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island: 1875 to 1883
Finding a passport request date is key in your research as it provides a close time frame to the departure of your ancestor from the Azores, and his arrival in the destination country. After August 1927 passports were required by law to contain a photo identification. If you have ancestors from São Miguel, or Santa Maria islands, it is most certain that your ancestor requested the passport in Ponta Delgada.
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| Registo de passaportes Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira. http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PASSAPORTES-TER-1923-1929/PASSAPORTES-TER-1923-1929_item1/P107.html |
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| Registo de Passportes Horta, Faial. http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PASSAPORTES-FAL-1920-1932/PASSAPORTES-FAL-1920-1932_item1/P66.html |
THE PHYSICAL COLLECTIONS
“Each
Azorean Island is organized into one or more administrative districts, each being
divided into parishes, known by their administrative name or by their patron
saint….The original documents lie in the Public Libraries and Regional Archives
of the Azores, in Ponta Delgada (S. Miguel), Angra do Heroísmo (Terceira) and
Horta (Faial).”
Terceira, Graciosa and São Jorge Islands - Angra do Heroismo administrative region.
Genealogy São Jorge Island
Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Regional Luis da Silva Ribeiro
Rua do Morrão, 42 - 9700-054 Angra do Heroísmo
Telefone: (+351) 295 401 000Fax:
(+351) 295 401 009
email: bparah.arquivo@azores.gov.pt
- Angra Archive
https://bparlsr.azores.gov.pt/arquivo_regional/
- Genealogical resources:
https://bparlsr.azores.gov.pt/categorias_ar/colecoes/fontes-genealogicas/
- Information on how to request copy
of records
- Angra do Heroismo Digital Library
Santa Maria and São Miguel Islands - Ponta Delgada administrative region.
Genealogias de São Miguel e Santa Maria - Rodrigo Rodrigues:
Book containing the genealogy of the two islands by Rodrigo Rodrigues:
https://www.scribd.com/document/535379893/Genealogias-de-Sao-Miguel-e-Santa-Maria-Rodrigo-Rodrigues
Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Regional de Ponta Delgada
São Miguel and Santa Maria Islands
Largo do Colégio s/n - 9500-054
Ponta Delgada
Phone: (+351) 296 305 040 Fax
(+351) 296 281 216
email:
bpar.pdelgada.info@azores.gov.pt
Information on how to request a
copy of records:
Faial, Pico, Flores and Corvo Islands - Horta administrative region
Biblioteca Pública Arquivo Regional João José da Graça - Horta
Faial, Pico, Flores and Corvo
Islands
Rua Walter Bensaúde, 14 - 9900-142
Horta
Phone: (+351) 292 208190 Fax:
(+351) 292 208199
email:
bpar.horta.info@azores.gov.pt
Other digital resources for researching Azores and Portugal records:
Genealogia FB
This is one of the best resources you will find about Portugal genealogy and history. It is not in English, but offers tons of indexes for both Portugal and Azores. It grows every day and it does not require any registration to access the indexes. All the work is developed by historians and family researchers volunteers, including myself, and is available for FREE.
Family Search
Family Search website with links to Portugal Historic Archives.
Tombo.pt
Portugal and Azores districts and
parishes archives in a easy way to access the historical records.
Historical Atlas and Parishes
Website where you can re-create the
parishes and historical territorial division in Portugal and Azores. If you
want to locate the parish or religious division in Portugal and Azores, give a
try on this tool, it is very useful. Maximize parts of the map to have smaller
divisions and more detail.
PORTUGAL MAINLAND
Online archives from Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, Portugal
Torre do Tombo is the Portuguese National Archives.
Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
Alameda da Universidade
1649-010 Lisbon, Portugal
National Library
The digital library with thousands of digitized reference books and more.
Projeto GERMIL
Military records
Hello Isabella,
ReplyDeleteI am interested in having some birth records translated. Could you please tell me your fee for this. They are images of birth records from the http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt website. At this time I have 4 records.
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ReplyDeleteGreat offer service - thank you. We have two entries (baptism & marriage) from the Acores website also. Please let me know how much to translate.
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I am looking for a church, Senhora da Piedade.I think its in Ponta Delgada. I can not find it. looking for church records. this church doesnot come up ? anybody know why?
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DeleteThere is Nossa Senhora da Piedadde church in Ponta Garça, São Miguel.
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Hello; please contact me at retherford1670@gmail.com concerning my family of the Azores and how to find a specific date. Warm Regard Anna
ReplyDeleteHello, I just started looking at this blog so I hope I didn't miss anything, but my question is do you know if the public can have access to Baptism and Matromonial records from Terceira that are after 1911. I need the 1930s from Raminho and Altares.
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Alda Goncalves
Alda, you can obtain a record from a Conservatória. This is the place where birth, marriages and deaths are recorded after 1911. If you need a record, get in touch through my email and I will let you know the steps.
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ReplyDeleteI just came across your website and thank you for the work you are doing.
I need assistance in finding my ancestors who lived in the Azores (Terceira Island) and eventually went from there to Brazil in the late 1600's. I would like to trace them back to the earliest time.
Do you know of anyone, or maybe you yourself do this, who can find the actual documentation records that can show their existence and the dates?
The family name is Toledo Machado, and there is a series of Antonio Toledo Machado, same name repeated again for my great grandfather, and his ancestor, who were already born in the Northeast pf Brazil.
I will not need translations, as I am Brazilian and bilingual, but I do need expert help for the research.
In the hope that you can help me, I send you much appreciation,
Ruth Toledo Altschuler
Olá Ruth, obrigada por visitar meu blog. Como você me disse que é brasileira e fala Português, resolvi falar com você em nossa língua natal, pois também sou brasileira. Eu posso ajudar você com sua pesquisa na Ilha Terceira, onde os arquivos são bem organizados e disponíveis online. Você não mencionou até que ponto você tem sua pesquisa organizada, por isso irei pedir a você que me envie um email para myportuguesegen at gmail dot com - me diga o que você já pesquisou até o momento. Eu lhe responderei tão logo eu tenha seu email. Warm regards,
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Dear Isabella—I want to find the exact town or city in Portugal that my ancestors on my father’s side came from BEFORE the Inquisitions, therefore the 1400-1500 years. I know where they went after the Inquisitions but have no idea where they resided while living on the Iberian Peninsula. How can I get those long ago records?
ReplyDeleteHello Francine, if you found that your ancestor was denounced in the Santo Ofício, either in Lisbon, Coimbra, or Évora, you will probably find at least a clue from where they are from. Those records are digitized and we have genealogy colleagues in Portugal that spent a lot of time indexing them and it is all available online. If you read some Portuguese you can access the indexes through the articles contained in it. https://genealogiafb.blogspot.com/search/label/Indices-Santo%20Ofício-Inquisição - let me know if it helped you.
ReplyDeleteI am looking for my husband's ancestor that was born in the Azores and I think it might be S. Miguel and was born February 29, 1916 and his name is Clarimundo Da Silva and he was married to Urselina Moniz. Any data I can get would be greatly appreciated or link that would help me immensely.
ReplyDeleteHello, the best way to obtain a civil registration after 1911 is to contact a Conservatória de Registro Civil in Portugal. The email and phone number is below. You will need to provide complete name, parents' names, etc.
DeleteConservatória do Registo Civil
Pç. Gonçalo Velho 12, 2º
9500-063 Ponta Delgada
Telefone: 296302170
Ponta Delgada – Reg. Aut. Açores – Portugal
e-mail: crc.pd@dgrn.mj.pt
Hello Isabella, I just discovered your website and it is a treasure! Would you happen to know if there are any passport records from Sao Miguel that are pre-1875? I am trying to find information from 1873 or 1874. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteJesse, unfortunately, Ponta Delgada archives do not have any passport requests prior to the year of 1875. I am sorry :(
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