About Our Portuguese Research Team
Lisbon, Portugal in 1598
Our team of expert genealogists is ready to assist you with your research in Portugal. Our Portuguese research team consists of professional researchers who live and work throughout the country. We also have a great team of researchers in place in the USA who are able to consult the millions of records available on your Portuguese ancestors at places like the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, the New York Public Library, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and elsewhere.
Research can be carried out for you in all districts of Portugal including:
Aveiro, Beja, Braga, Bragança, Castelo Branco, Coimbra, Évora, Faro, Guarda, Leiria, Lisbon, Portalegre, Porto, Santarém, Setúbal, Viana do Castelo, Vila Real, Viseu
Most of our genealogists are bilingual and speak and write fluent Portuguese and English. A number of our researchers are also certified genealogists or have advanced degrees in history and related fields. Our Portuguese research team is made up of genealogists who live and work throughout the country. Our collective expertise in Portuguese genealogical research can be a great asset to you as you piece together your family tree in Portugal. Whether your research takes you to Lisbon, the Algarve, or the Azores, our genealogists are ready to assist you with this exciting research.
Research can be carried out for you in all districts of Portugal including:
Aveiro, Beja, Braga, Bragança, Castelo Branco, Coimbra, Évora, Faro, Guarda, Leiria, Lisbon, Portalegre, Porto, Santarém, Setúbal, Viana do Castelo, Vila Real, Viseu
Most of our genealogists are bilingual and speak and write fluent Portuguese and English. A number of our researchers are also certified genealogists or have advanced degrees in history and related fields. Our Portuguese research team is made up of genealogists who live and work throughout the country. Our collective expertise in Portuguese genealogical research can be a great asset to you as you piece together your family tree in Portugal. Whether your research takes you to Lisbon, the Algarve, or the Azores, our genealogists are ready to assist you with this exciting research.
Location of Records Relating to Your Portuguese Ancestry
Henry Count of Portugal 13th century
Many people are unaware that many important records which are crucial to their family tree search cannot be found online. Many Portuguese records, for example, are only available to researchers who are physically able to visit repositories at the local level in Portuguese or the Family History Library in Utah. Our genealogy researchers have access to all of these records and are ready to assist you with your genealogy search in Portugal. So, if you have limited your past research to exhaustive internet searches on online databases and web sites, you may have reached a brick wall because you're missing out on the literal gold mine of records available to our genealogists on microfilm, in books, and in other published material. Many Portuguese records related to your ancestry search, important records like church parish registers, civil registration, military records, family wills and other types records, are generally not available online and can only be obtained by visiting your ancestor's town of origin in Portuguese, or by consulting microfilmed records available at the Family History Library in Utah.
Portugal has experienced large waves of out-migration from the country from the 1800s up to the present day.
Many Portuguese immigrants in various parts of North America like Massachusetts, California and Canada where economic opportunities were much more promising than in the old country. If your ancestors were part of this diaspora, many records helpful to building your family tree in Portuguese would probably first be uncovered in
the places where your ancestors immigrated. To find records relating to your family in Portugal, we must first know exactly where your Portuguese ancestors lived in the past. This information can sometimes be found in obituaries, church records, ships' passenger lists, naturalization records and death certificates.
Many important records relating to Portuguese family history are held locally at church archives and regional archives. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has also visited civil registration offices and churches throughout Portugal and microfilmed many records relevant to Portuguese family history. Civil registration refers to official government records. These records are sometimes available from the early 1800s up to the present day and hold a wealth of information. It is also sometimes possible to get a family tree traced back to the 1600s and 1700s using church parish registers.
The records collection of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City is the single most important resource for family tree research since it consists of literally billions of genealogy records from all parts of the globe making it the largest and most important collection of genealogical information available in the world. Included in the Family History Library's collections are literally millions of genealogical records related to Portugal which can be a great help to your ancestry search. Click here to read what our clients are saying about our genealogists and our unique family tree research services.
Portugal has experienced large waves of out-migration from the country from the 1800s up to the present day.
Many Portuguese immigrants in various parts of North America like Massachusetts, California and Canada where economic opportunities were much more promising than in the old country. If your ancestors were part of this diaspora, many records helpful to building your family tree in Portuguese would probably first be uncovered in
the places where your ancestors immigrated. To find records relating to your family in Portugal, we must first know exactly where your Portuguese ancestors lived in the past. This information can sometimes be found in obituaries, church records, ships' passenger lists, naturalization records and death certificates.
Many important records relating to Portuguese family history are held locally at church archives and regional archives. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has also visited civil registration offices and churches throughout Portugal and microfilmed many records relevant to Portuguese family history. Civil registration refers to official government records. These records are sometimes available from the early 1800s up to the present day and hold a wealth of information. It is also sometimes possible to get a family tree traced back to the 1600s and 1700s using church parish registers.
The records collection of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City is the single most important resource for family tree research since it consists of literally billions of genealogy records from all parts of the globe making it the largest and most important collection of genealogical information available in the world. Included in the Family History Library's collections are literally millions of genealogical records related to Portugal which can be a great help to your ancestry search. Click here to read what our clients are saying about our genealogists and our unique family tree research services.
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Research Consultation
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