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The Kolonie Santo Ângelo - Brazil
The Colony Santo Ângelo was created in 1855 and started to receive the first german immigrants on the 1st of November, 1857. In 1875 it had an area of 55 000 hectares and a population of 4 000. Today it corresponds to the municipty of Agudo and Paraíso do Sul and some areas of Dona Francisca and Cachoeira do Sul.
It was to this colony that came many of my ancestors from Germany (Trapp, Buske and Hollweg). Another immigrant that established there and later, moving to Porto Alegre, founded a company that today is the biggest brazilian multinational was Johannes Gerdau, pioneer of the Gerdau Group.
See a interactive map of this region here.
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In 1995 was published the book "História da Colônia de Santo Ângelo - Vol. I" (History of the Colony of Santo Ângelo - Vol.I), by William Werlang. Besides telling the history of the region, the book has many biographies and the genealogy of more than 2000 people from this region. For more details the email of the author is wwerlang@viavale.com.br. |
Research on family sources, on the Public Archives of RGS, on microfilms from the Latter Day Saints Church and the William Werlang's book had allowed to build a genealogical tree of more than 3500 people interconnected that have lived or have originated on the Colony Santo Ângelo.
See here the surnames that belong to this tree or go to the index of names. This link has constant updates. If you have ancestors in the Colony Santo Ângelo write me!
Webpages of families from this region
Donicht Family - informations about the Donicht surname in all the world, includes pictures of tombstones and the family nowadays.(13 mar 00)
Sugestions? Send me an email !
Page created by Gustavo Trapp, Brazil.
Visitors since 1th Nov 1999
Last updated on 16 Jul 2006