Direct origin of the Klamas surname. Valentin Klamas, his mother Barbara and his brother Josef set out from Rakowitz — today Piaseczno, in the gmina of Gniew — arriving in Curitiba in 1876. The region, previously inhabited by the Baltic Prussians, was Germanised under the Teutonic Order from the thirteenth century onward.
Piaseczno (formerly Rakowitz) — the Klamas family's village of origin in West Prussia.
Region of origin of the Klenczynska family, connected to the Klamas by the marriage of Nicodemos Klamas to Helena Klenczynska in 1909, in Araucária. Galicia was one of the main areas of Polish emigration to southern Brazil in the late nineteenth century.
Origin of the Roesler (Rößler) family — Josef Rössler, born in Gablonz, Bohemia, emigrated to Paraná and settled in Curitiba, where he worked as a cabinetmaker. His son José Roesler married Rosa Metzger, linking this branch to the Swiss family.
Origin of the Metzger family, with documented records since the seventeenth century in the city of Schaffhausen and the village of Buchthalen. Konrad Metzger (1772–1852) is the most remote identified ancestor of this branch. It was also in Schaffhausen, at the Historical Archive, that Breno Klamas learned to decipher the Kurrentschrift script during his research.
Region of origin of collateral branches connected to the Klamas line, in Prussian Pomerania — an area of Germanic settlement since the Middle Ages, located northwest of Marienwerder.
Origin of the Garanito family, in Santana, on the island of Madeira. João Gomes Garanito and Virgínia Fernandes de Jesus married in 1914 in Santana; their descendants emigrated to southern Brazil, connecting to the Klamas branch through the marriage of Elizabeth de Fátima Garanito to Felisberto Klamas in 1977.
Core of the maternal branch, with deep roots on the northern coast of Santa Catarina. Captain Salvador Gomes de Oliveira (b. c. 1777, São Francisco do Sul) was one of the first settlers of the area adjacent to the territory that would form the Dona Francisca Colony — today Joinville — holding the offices of Councilman, Ordinary Judge and President of the Municipal Council. He held the sesmaria (land grant) of Porto da Caçada, received in 1805. He married Rita Clara de Miranda, born in Paranaguá. In 1824, as President of the Council, he organised the local defences to consolidate Brazil's Independence. They had nine children, whose descendants exercised significant political influence in northern Santa Catarina over the following 150 years.
Origin of several families that colonised the coast of Santa Catarina from the eighteenth century onward, in the context of the Portuguese Crown's settlement policy. The Azorean presence is visible in the surnames of the northern coast of Santa Catarina and in São Francisco do Sul — the cradle of the Oliveira Cercal branch, which merges with the Gomes de Oliveira over the course of the nineteenth century. Cap. Antonio Francisco de Nóbrega (b. 1798, Faial, Madeira), father of Emília Julieta Nóbrega, is one of the links between this branch and the island of Madeira.
Second branch of Prussian origin, distinct from the paternal Klamas line. The Ziemann family emigrated from Welschenburg, Dramburg (present-day Olezno, Poland) to São Francisco do Sul, SC, in 1857–1858, aboard the steamship Emma. Johann August Ziemann (b. 1843) married in Joinville Auguste Wilhelmine Friederike Nass (b. 1843, Zülzefitz, Regenwalde). The Nass came from Leckow, Schivelbein (today Świdwin) — the same region as the Meyer, who also appear in the paternal branch, evidence of the geographic proximity of the communities that emigrated to Curitiba and Joinville.
Second branch of Bohemian origin, distinct from the paternal Rößler family. The Degelmann and Schweizer families came from the Tachau region (today Tachov, Czech Republic) — Joseph Degelmann (b. 1808, Roßhaupt) and Maria Willfahrt emigrated to Joinville aboard the steamship Electric in 1869. Georg Adam Schweizer (b. 1821, Purschau) and Margaretha Seidling (b. 1828, Langendörflas) settled in the same community. Johann Degelmann (b. 1852) married Maria Schweizer (b. 1847, Purschau) and they were the parents of Anna Degelmann (b. 1880), who in turn married Johann Wilhelm Friedrich August Ziemann — definitively linking the Bohemian and Pomeranian branches in early twentieth-century Joinville.