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Guide to Italy ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

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Getting started with Italian research.

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Welcome to the Italy page of the FamilySearch Wiki.

FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors. Through the Italy page you can learn how to find, use, and analyze Italian records of genealogical value. Please visit the help page to learn more about using the site. The Italy Page is a work in progress, your contributions and feedback are essential! For more information on the history and geography of Italy, click here. 

NEW! Join the Italy Genealogy Research Community on Facebook or Skype!

Jurisdictions

Italy is subdivided into 20 regions (regioni, singular regione). Five of these regions have a special autonomous status that enables them to enact legislation on some of their local matters, and are marked by an asterisk (*). It is further divided into 109 provinces (provincie) and 8,101 municipalities (comuni).

Records are kept at the town level.

Regions

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Abruzzo Aosta Valley Apulia (Puglia) Basilicata Calabria Campania Emilia-Romagna Friuli-Venezia Giulia Lazio Liguria

Lombardy (Lombardia) Marche Molise Piedmont (Piemonte) Sardinia (Sardegna) Sicily (Sicilia) Trentino-Alto Adige Tuscany (Toscana) Umbria Veneto

Research Tools

Italian Records Available Through FamilySearch Websites Letter Writing Guide Interpreting Italian records Finding Records of Your Ancestors, Italy 1809-1910 Italian Script Tutorial Latin Genealogical Word List Surname Maps

Italian Genealogical Word List Translation of printed civil birth forms Translation of printed civil marriage forms Translation of printed civil death form BYU Research Guide for Italy. Italian Occupations List Finding Records of Your Ancestors, Italy 1809-1910

Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:

• Italy Vital Records Index (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Itay Births and Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Bologna, Bologna, Civil Registration, Tribunale (FamilySearch Historical Records) 
• Italy, Salerno, Vallo della Lucania, Civil Registration, Tribunale (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Catania, San Biagio Parrish Catholic Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records) 
• Italy, Catania, Caltagirone Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Caserta, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Cuneo Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Genova, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Messina, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Messina, Tribunale di Patti, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Napoli Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Oristano Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Nuoro Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records) 
• Italy, Padova, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Reoords)
• Italy, Pistoia Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Potenza, Lagonegro Civil Registrations (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy Salerno, Patula, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy, Salerno, Vallo della Lucania, Civil Registration, Tribunale (FamilySearch Historical Records)
  
• Italy, Teramo, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Italy Deaths and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records 
• Italy Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records) 
• Italy, Waldensian Evangelical Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Research Strategies

Locating births records 1520-1808 1809-1865 1866-Present

Locating marriage records 1520-1808 1809-1865 1866-present

Locating death records 1520-1808 1809-1865 1866-present

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Military Conscription Records [registro di leva] list all males by year of birth and provide the name, parents’ names, place of residence, birth date and place, 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.

Read more... See the Italian tutorials at FamilySearch.org for "Basic Italian Research", "Italian Script", and lessons one, two and three on "Reading Italian Handwriting Records".

Did you know?

• Most Italian emigrants were from southern Italy and settled in New York, Chicago, and along the East Coast. Many emigrants from northern Italy settled in the coal and mineral mining towns across the United States. Other northerners later settled in northern California where a climate similar to their own existed.
• The Anglo-Italian Family History Society has online transcriptions of Italian names in the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 England censuses.

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