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This page is to collect and share resources for the various provinces managed by the Portugal Project. If you find a new source that is helpful, let us know!

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These are links to some basic, and not so basic, styles and standards of WikiTree that can be useful:

Resources by Province

Alentejo

The Alentejo is a geographical, historical and cultural region of south-central and southern Portugal. In Portuguese, it literally means "beyond" (além) Tagus river (Tejo).

Algarve

The Algarve is the southernmost region of continental Portugal. Algarve incorporates sixteen municipalities. It is one of the most developed regions of Portugal.

Azores

The Azores officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores, is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal. It is an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean west of continental Portugal.

Beira

Beira was one of the six traditional provinces of Portugal. The most important cities within the province are: Coimbra, Aveiro, Leiria, Viseu, Castelo Branco, Guarda, Figueira da Foz, Covilhã and Pinhel.

Douro Litoral

Douro Litoral is centered on the city of Porto, now the capital of the Norte Region. The province was abolished in 1976.

Estremadura

Estremadura Province is located along the Atlantic Ocean coast in the center of the country and includes Lisbon.

Madeira

Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Portugal. Madeira was claimed by Portuguese sailors in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator in 1419 and settled after 1420.

Minho

Minho was a former province of Portugal, established in 1936 and dissolved in 1976.

Ribatejo

The Ribatejo is the most central of the traditional provinces of Portugal, with no coastline or border with Spain.

Trás-os-Montes

Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro is a historical province of Portugal located in the northeastern corner of the country.

Resources not Region Specific

  • Civil Records: From 1911 onward, all residents were required to have their vital events recorded in the civil registrar, regardless if this information was also recorded in their church's parish. Records are sent to the district archives 30 years after death, 50 years after marriage and 100 years after birth. Some may be online or you may be able to order a copy from the Archives for that region. Wikipedia has a good list of Archives in Portugal.
  • Newsletter Images: These are images for the monthly newsletter. If you would like one of the months (without the Portugal Project on them) for your own biography, please contact Mindy Silva. (Note: I haven't been doing the newsletter recently. Let me know if you are interested in it being reinstated)
  • Parish records: baptisms, marriages, burials, and other acts such as confirmations or inventories. These are available through the Archives for the region that the event currently belongs in. They can be consulted in person at the Archives or, in most cases, are online through the different Archives website.
  • Passport Records: Passport records can be requested from the Archives at the relevant location. Indexes that were created by the Archive in question are considered a legitimate source; though looking at the record itself is better. Passport indexes created by other sites are not considered reliable as you don't know if the person posting the information looked at original records or not.
  • tombo.pt will allow you to search for records by parish. You can also type in the municipality and see which parishes are within.
Portugal Provinces




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Key-2986 Jessica Key
Baptisms at the British Chaplaincy in Lisbon 1721-1807, transcribed here: https://web.archive.org/web/20020201225147/http://users.rootsweb.com/~indwgw/lisbon.htm
posted by Jessica Key
Mariana Anonymous PT
Hello! I would add https://tombo.pt/ as an excellent general resource for finding all the parishes in the Portugal with the links to the online Parish records
posted by Mariana Anonymous PT
edited by Mariana Anonymous PT
Silva-1055 Mindy Silva
Thank you Mariana! I agree, tombo.pt is an invaluable resource!
posted by Mindy Silva
Garcia-5974 Christina Garcia
This page looks Great Mindy !
posted by Christina Garcia

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