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The military records that are most useful to family history researchers are described below. | The military records that are most useful to family history researchers are described below. | ||
=== Conscription Records ['' | === Conscription Records [''liste di leva''] and Draft Records [''liste di estrazioni].'' === | ||
These records list all males by year of birth and provide the name, parents’ names, place of residence, birth date | The draft of young men occurred in two steps. First, all towns in Italy sent to the military district of their province or region, year by year, a list of all living males who had been born in their town twenty-one years earlier. This became the ''liste di leva''. These records, recorded in volumes on a year-by-year basis by military district within a region or province, list all living twenty-one-year-old males within a district by year of birth and provide the name, parents’ names, place of residence, birth date, birthplace, vocation, literacy, and physical description. They also show the draft board’s decision regarding the draftee’s fitness for service. If the draftee had emigrated, the date and destination are noted. | ||
Then when the males became eligible, a draft board was instituted (again year-by-year) to evaluate who was physically, mentally, and legally eligible to be drafted. (For example the third or fourth son of a family whose older brothers had already served in the military was often exempted, as were sole-surviving sons.) The young man had to be present for the examination or could be represented by someone (usually a parent) to document why the young man should not be drafted. | |||
Young men had no right to emigrate from Italy before the age of 18 unless the whole family had departed. From the list of all males eligible for the draft, a certain amount of young men were called (extracted) to actually serve the draft. This depended on eligibility and the number necessary to fulfill the draft quota of the Italian State. Therefore, the ''liste di estrazioni'' were those eligible who were actually drafted. If a young man did not present himself for the draft and was not represented at the draft call he could be declared eligible and labelled as a deserter. This happened at times to those who emigrated to North or South America and who did not return because they could be legally imprisioned for draft evasion. | |||
Therefore, in essence ''liste di leva'' was the list of all young men and the ''liste di estrazione'', also called ''liste di arruolamento'' was a list of those who were declared eligible. The ''liste di leva'' were eliminated in 1923 and only those of ''estrazione ''remain. | |||
=== Draftee Curriculum of Service Record [''registro dei fogli matricolari'']. === | === Draftee Curriculum of Service Record [''registro dei fogli matricolari'']. === | ||
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''ITALY - [PROVINCE] - MILITARY RECORDS'' | ''ITALY - [PROVINCE] - MILITARY RECORDS'' | ||
You can also write to the provincial archives for information. See [[Italy Archives and Libraries]] for more information. | You can also write to the provincial archives for information. See [[Italy Archives and Libraries]] for more information. | ||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||