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-== Tips for Finding Your Ancestor in the Records ==
-===Civil Registration Tips===
-*In many areas during the earliest years of civil registration, records were '''indexed by the given names'''. Therefore, you must search every entry in the index to make sure you find every individual who had a certain surname.
-*Eventually, however, indexes were alphabetized by surname. Women are always found in the indexes under their '''maiden names'''.
-*Births were generally registered within a day or two of the child’s birth, usually by the father of the family or by the attending midwife. Corrections to a birth record may have been added as a '''marginal note''. In later records, '''marginal notes''' are frequently found, providing marriage and death information.
-*After 1809 Napoleonic law required that the marriage ceremony be performed '''first by a civil authority and then, if desired, by a church authority.''' At first, some people resisted this law and had their marriages performed by church authority only. Later when it became legally necessary for their children to be recognized as legitimate, a civil ceremony was performed. In rare cases, you may find a marriage record for a couple in their 50s who were actually married 30 years earlier. In most cases you may find marriages recorded in both civil and church records.
-*Marriages were usually performed and recorded '''where the bride lived.'''
-*Do not overlook the '''importance of death records.''' Death records are especially helpful because they may provide important information about a person’s birth, spouse, and parents. Civil death records often exist for individuals for whom there are no birth or marriage records.
-===Church Record Tips===
-*Effective use of church records includes the following strategies:
-#When you find an ancestor’s birth or baptismal record, search for the births of siblings.<br>
-#Search for the parents’ marriage record. Typically, the marriage took place one or two years before the oldest child was born.
-#Search for the parent’s birth records. On the average, people married in their early 20s, so subtact 25 or so years from the marriage date for a starting year to search for the parents' birth records.
-#If you do not find earlier generations in the parish registers, search neighboring parishes.<br>
-#Search the death registers for all known family members.
-*If the original church records that you need have been lost or destroyed or are illegible, you may be able to find a duplicate church record. Unfortunately it was not standard practice to keep duplicate records until the 1900s. But some dioceses started making duplicates as early as 1820. Duplicates, when they exist, are normally located at the ''curia vescovile'' (diocesan archives).
-*In Italy, the parish priest was often required to collect taxes. He would sometimes record information about his parishioners and the tax in church censuses (stato delle anime or status animarum). If the censuses do exist for your parish, the registers list all family members living in a household and their ages or birth dates. Deceased children were not listed. Married children, if living in the same household, were recorded with the family but as a separate household. Familial relationships and addresses were also noted.
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 [[Category:Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Region, Italy]]