Online consultation of the relations of passengers disembarking at the Port of Rio de Janeiro
currently available about two hundred thousand records from the period between the years 1885 and 1891. The design of data entry is sponsored by BNDES. See the menu on the site of the National Archives, on the "Consultation Collections" to access the database.
In the late nineteenth century, thousands of foreigners arrived in the port of Rio de Janeiro, starting for the story, what would be the period the first mass immigration (1880-1930). Immigrants from various sources, mainly Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and English, but also Jews, Syrians and Lebanese, arrived on Brazilian soil, beginning the dream of making America. Since then, Rio de Janeiro would be the gateway to Brazil, the country most of the world interbred.
To recover the history of the migratory groups that participated in the formation of contemporary Brazilian society, Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social - BNDES, in partnership with the National Archives, linking financial support, technical knowledge and documentation began in October 2008 the project of Entry of Foreigners in Brazil: The relationship of passengers disembarking at the port of Rio de Janeiro'foi conceived and coordinated by Professor Ismene Martins de Lima (Universidade Federal Fluminense), the project aims to organize a database with descriptions of the lists of passengers disembarking in Rio de Janeiro.
This database will allow to solve concrete issues that will go through family reunification, citizenship rights and property with easy access to documentation. The project continues to run and periodic updates will enable the expansion progressive world of search.
Besides being an important historical documentation, one can say that the lists represent vapor, in a sense, family papers, stored and cared for by the National Archives, but belong to all Brazilians and foreign. Vessels anchored in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro brought in their comings and goings, while stories of individual and collective, for each immigrant, and be a participant in his own time, also carried with him his private and family history.
The recovery of the information contained in a universe of more than 10,000 listings; represents a breakthrough in the development of research on immigration in Brazil, an issue that concerns all those who participated directly or indirectly in the formation of Brazilian society.
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