Financial crisis, political instability, a certain hopelessness of seeing things work better, nomadic spirit, the enchantment with Europe, the false feeling that life is easier out there, anyway. One or some of these combined issues have led many Brazilians to seek migration to Portugal.
Well then, there are some ways to legalize the change of life, among them proving Portuguese ancestry. And here comes technology in search of facilitating the path.
The genealogist and specialist in information resourcing Gabriel Dias, says that, at the end of the 19th century, the Portuguese arrived in Brazil without birth certificates and few had passports. Another factor that hinders the documentary search of these family members is the fact that until 1911 there was no civil registry in Portugal. Births and baptisms were carried out by the Catholic Church and, at the time, it was common to have 20 to 30 parishes per 'county' or city.
Searching for records of ancestors is not an easy task. “Information science has allowed the location of key documents to prove the nationality of family members. There are documents from the National Secretariat of Agriculture and Colonization, from ranches and inns, from parishes and personal data of the families investigated so far”, tells us Thiago Huver, partner of Martins Castro, a company that developed a platform to locate and organize much of this data to from artificial intelligence.
According to Thiago, the union of several informational fragments is guaranteeing the proof of the entry of these immigrants in Brazil and their origins in Portugal. Well, that's the theme of today's live from O POVO Tecnologia, to which I invite you. Let's talk about this platform, on which it is based, the dynamism of this development and others.
Our guests, in addition to you, are:
1 – Renato Martins – Specialist in Portuguese citizenship and founding partner of Martins Castro
2 – Gabriel Dias – Genealogist and specialist in information management.
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By Hamilton Nogueira