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Speaking to people who knew ancestors in Minais Gerais, Brazil?
Start by talking to every old person in your family. Write down everything they know. And talk to anyone who knew your grandparents. Pick a genealogy package and enter your family, and as much back ...
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Where to find Brazil immigration records of ancestor from Italy?
Family Search has a very good database of documents. But be aware that different regions have different states of completion. For example, the state of Paraná seems to have plenty of indexed death ...
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Where to find Brazil immigration records of ancestor from Italy?
This source is also from FamilySearch, but not yet listed - it is not specifically related to Italian sources but have surprising results, at least for me, when also looking for brazilian immigration ...
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great grandather Luigi Raimondi and Sylvia Fiorentini in Brasil 1900
The obvious record you need to get to begin with is the marriage of Sylvia and Luigi in Brasil. There may be two possible sources - church records and civil records.
Where and how to find them ...
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Jewish records in Germany, late 1700 to early 1800
This is not a conclusive answer per se, but might aid as a lead to further investigate your German heritage.
There is a (commercial) German website called Archion.de, also available in English, see ...
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Jewish records in Germany, late 1700 to early 1800
There was a Jewish community in Ballenstedt and it seems that it was shrinking over time. They had a synagoge build in 1791 and today there still is a Jewish cemetery there (but only 15 gravestones ...
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Obtaining Brazilian Civil Registry documents from abroad
Obtaining these records from abroad will be very difficult as you have to personally sign some papers (or ask an attorney to sign it in your behalf).
I recommend you to look for a lawyer's office on ...
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Finding passenger list of ship with German immigrants to Brazil in 1824
Using www.familysearch.org, I found (was the only thing I found) this microfilm.
The film (1808-1922) description states:
Records of immigrants entering and leaving the port of Rio de Janeiro;
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Seeking address for 1930s migrant to Brazil from Lebanon?
I could not locate one specific Mahmoud Chahine, but honestly did not go over all records. If you did not give a try yet at FamilySearch, do it, there are several records for Chahine from Lebanon ...
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