A Atlante Genealogy & Citizenship
Established consultancy · Italian & Portuguese lines

Your ancestors left a paper trail.
We know how to read it.

Atlante is a research-led consultancy helping descendants of Italian and Portuguese émigrés document their lineage and pursue European citizenship by descent — from the parish books of rural Portugal to the immigration cards of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

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Generations traced
Up to 8
Citizenship lines
IT · PT · EU
Archive coverage
BR · PT · IT
Approach
Evidence-chain
Working in:
  • FamilySearch
  • APESP
  • DigitArq
  • CEPESE
  • Arquivo Nacional
  • Antenati
  • Tombo
What we offer

A service, not a software product.

You are not buying a tool, an export, or a database subscription. You are hiring a small team of certified consultants who will sit inside the archives — digital and physical — until your line is documented in a way that holds up in front of an Italian or Portuguese consulate.

We work case by case. Every engagement is led by a named consultant who is accountable for the evidence chain from you back to the qualifying ancestor.

  • 01

    Lineage Documentation

    We trace your ancestry through civil registration, parish books, and immigration records, cross-referencing every claim across at least two independent sources.

  • 02

    Consulate-Ready Dossiers

    Each case ends with a dossier: vital records, certified translations, apostilles, and a written evidence chain that maps you to the qualifying ancestor.

  • 03

    Archive Recovery

    For lines that hit a wall, we go to the source — Portuguese freguesias, Italian comuni, Brazilian cartórios — and recover the records that are not yet online.

  • 04

    Second-Opinion Reviews

    Already started a process and stuck on a missing record or a naming discrepancy? We review what you have and tell you, plainly, what is recoverable.

How a case unfolds

Five steps from question to citizenship file.

  1. I

    Intake

    We collect what you already know — names, places, photographs, family lore — and identify the most likely qualifying ancestor.

  2. II

    Tree Reconstruction

    We rebuild your tree from authoritative sources, generation by generation, and flag every gap that needs to be closed before a consulate will accept the file.

  3. III

    Archive Work

    We pull the missing records — civil, parish, immigration, naturalization — from FamilySearch, national archives, and, where necessary, from on-the-ground correspondents.

  4. IV

    Evidence Chain

    We assemble the chain in writing: each record cited, each discrepancy explained, each name variation reconciled. Nothing asserted without a source.

  5. V

    Dossier Delivery

    You receive certified copies, sworn translations, and a written report — everything you need to walk into a consulate with a file that is ready to be filed.

Where we look

The archives behind a Luso-Italian-Brazilian case.

The records that decide a citizenship case are scattered across three countries, half a dozen languages of bureaucracy, and a century of inconsistent indexing. We have spent years learning where each record lives and how to ask for it.

Brazil

  • APESP — São Paulo immigration cards
  • RJ immigration cards (FamilySearch)
  • Civil registration, SP & RJ
  • Cartório-level recovery on request
  • Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro

Portugal

  • DigitArq — district archives
  • Catholic parish records, Porto
  • Catholic parish records, Azores
  • CEPESE — emigration studies
  • Passport records, late 19th c.

Italy

  • Antenati — Stato Civile
  • Comune-level vital records
  • Parish books, pre-unification
  • Naturalization status checks
  • Court rectifications
A note on giving back

Your case can also widen the map.

The records that decide your citizenship — a baptism in a small Portuguese parish, an immigration card in a São Paulo warehouse — are often not in any public family tree. They sit in our dossier, your file, and nowhere else.

With your permission, we contribute the documented findings of your case back to FamilySearch's open tree: ancestors, dates, places, and citations to the original records. Your private dossier stays private. What we share are the facts that anyone else descending from the same village would need.

  • Always opt-in. Nothing is published without your written consent on a per-case basis.
  • Facts and sources only. Dates, places, names, and citations to the originating archive — never your personal documents, your family photographs, or your contact details.
  • Attributed to a real consultant. Contributions are made under the consultant's own FamilySearch account, following FamilySearch's contribution policies.
  • Pause or revoke anytime. If you change your mind mid-case, we stop. If you change your mind after delivery, we help you remove the contributions.

Why we do this: Lusophone parishes and Brazilian municipalities are some of the least-documented corners of the global tree. The ancestor you spent six months recovering is, statistically, someone else's brick wall too. Sharing the record citation costs you nothing and saves a stranger years.

How we work

The principles behind every file we deliver.

  • Per-consultant accounts

    Every consultant authenticates with their own credentials. No shared keys, no anonymous bots, no scraped data.

  • Sources before stories

    We do not assert a fact in a dossier without a citation. If a record cannot be recovered, we say so plainly.

  • Resource-conscious

    We respect the rate limits of every archive and API we touch. We do not bulk-download, we do not redistribute, we do not resell.

  • Client-confidential

    Your case file, your communications, and your family's private documents stay between you and your consultant.

Begin a case

Tell us what you know.
We'll tell you what's recoverable.

A case review takes about a week. We come back with what we found, what we think is reachable, and an honest read on whether your line is likely to qualify.