Italy Genealogy

Getting started with Italian research Welcome to the Italy Page! 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. 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 *. It is further divided into 109 provinces (provincie) and 8,101 municipalities (comuni). Records are kept at the town level. Regions 1 Abruzzo 2 Aosta Valley * 3 Apulia (Puglia) 4 Basilicata 5 Calabria 6 Campania 7 Emilia-Romagna 8 Friuli-Venezia Giulia * 9 Lazio 10 Liguria 11 Lombardia (Lombardia) 12 Marche 13 Molise 14 Piedmont (Piemonte) 15 Sardinia (Sardegna) * 16 Sicily (Sicilia) * 17 Trentino-Alto Adige * 18 Tuscany (Toscana) 19 Umbria 20 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 Research Strategies Strategies for locating births marriages, and deaths Italy Vital Records Index (FamilySearch Historical Records) Locating birth 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 Browse: Pages for Italy Featured Content 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... 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. (Your Bullet) (Your Bullet) (Your Bullet) (Your Bullet) (Your Bullet) (Your Bullet) Beginners Corner Add content here Add content here Add content here News and Events New! Italian Research class online! Hot off the Press! Current Events more... Topics Archives and Libraries Biography Census Church Directories Church History Church Records Civil Registration Court Records Directories Emigration and Immigration Gazetteers Genealogy Handwriting Heraldry Historical Geography History Jewish History Jewish Records Language and Languages Letter Writing Guide Maps Military Records Minorities Names, Personal Nobility Notarial Records Other Records Periodicals Probate Records Record Selection Table Schools Social Life and Customs Societies Taxation Word List Useful Websites Italy Births and Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records) Italy Deaths and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records) Italy Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records) Italy, Nuoro Province Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records) Genealogy courses: Learn how to research from an expert in researching your family in Italy.