Its been a while since my last post. I have been busy researching and writing a family history book...It is finally done, published and available at Amazon.com and in digital format for Kindle.

Link to Amazon.com

It is called "The Pinel Family - from France to Brazil" and at the moment it is only available in English, my next project will be to translate it to Portuguese.

Book summary:

Our Pinel Family started with Scipion Pinel born in 1660 in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux, France. Scipion was the great-grandfather of Philippe Pinel, the Psychiatrist in charge of the Parisian Hospitals Bicêtre and Saltpêtrière from 1792 to 1826. 

His son Charles Pinel moved to Brazil in 1830 and married Marie Catherine Rime, who emigrated from Switzerland to Brazil with her family in 1819. Their descendants are numerous and still strong in Brazil.