Find your family in Portugal
PTGen will be a name search for mainland Portugal. Those records are not indexed yet, so search here is under construction. The Azores are searchable now at AzoresGen.org. Madeira will be searched at MadeiraGen.org.
Choose a district
Eighteen districts of mainland Portugal, with the Azores and Madeira in their own boxes, drawn from the official boundaries. Filled steel is the Azores, searchable today. The Madeira box opens MadeiraGen.org, which is on its way. An outline on the mainland means those records are still to come.
- Searchable now
- Not indexed yet
Select a district on the map.
Or choose from the list
- AzoresAzoresGen.org
- Aveiro
- Beja
- Braga
- Bragança
- Castelo Branco
- Coimbra
- Évora
- Faro
- Guarda
- Leiria
- Lisboa
- MadeiraMadeiraGen.org
- Portalegre
- Porto
- Santarém
- Setúbal
- Viana do Castelo
- Vila Real
- Viseu
District and island boundaries, simplified. The Azores and Madeira are inset and are not drawn to the same scale. The Selvagens are omitted. Boundaries: Direção-Geral do Território, via geoBoundaries (ODbL).
A name search for mainland Portugal
PTGen is being built so the families of mainland Portugal can be searched by name. Parish books and civil records, handwritten in Portuguese, should answer to a name instead of a page turned by hand. That index is not ready. Until it is, the map is an honest picture: the mainland is under construction, and the islands have their own sites.
AzoresGen.org is the sister site for the Azores. Those genealogies and passport registers are searchable now. MadeiraGen.org is the sister site for Madeira and Porto Santo. It is on its way.
Search free. Build your tree as a researcher.
Start free. A free account keeps the people you find and the searches you run, on any device, alongside the full name search across every source we have indexed and pedigree charts for the families you find.
When you are ready to build a tree of your own, a Researcher membership adds GEDCOM and CSV exports, full family pedigrees and printable charts — everything you need to take the records home and keep working.
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Free- Save people (“My ancestors”) and searches
- Full name search, all indexed records
- Pedigree charts of parents with children (two generations)
Researcher membership
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- GEDCOM & CSV exports
- Full pedigree charts of descendants and ancestors
- Printable pedigrees
Researcher memberships are on the way — follow What's new. Until then, everything on the site is open to all.
A father and son, tracing the same roots
We are a father and son team descended from Azorean immigrants to America, who first landed in the Fall River, Massachusetts area in the early 1900s. We have traced our ancestors to the earliest settlers of the Azores islands, and we want to share our findings with others. Previously you had to go page by page through the records.
Read our story