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 ITALY, TOSCANA - CIVIL REGISTRATION&nbsp; (Fill in the search boxes, "Toscana", part of "Italy")
-===Civil Registration Offices===
+===Writing for  Civil Registration Certificates===
+If the records are not online or microfilmed, civil registration records in Italy can be obtained by writing to the local civil registry.  This is also necessary for more recent records.  Recent records are covered by privacy laws, so they are not released for microfilm or online.  But relatives are allowed request them for genealogy.   Civil officials will generally answer correspondence in Italian. Your request may be forwarded if the records have been sent to the tribunale or the provincia.  <br>
-You may be able to find birth, marriage, and death records by contacting or visiting local civil registration offices or archives in Italy. To protect the rights of privacy of living persons, most modern records have restrictions on their use and access.
+Use this address as a guide, replacing the information in parentheses:<br>
-Italy has no single repository of civil registration records. The present location of records depends on several factors, which are listed below. Records may be available from several locations by correspondence. Write your request in Italian whenever possible.
+'''Address for local office:'''<br>
-'''Local towns'''. Most civil registration registers are still maintained by the comune.
+::Sindaco<br>
+::Comune di (name of the locality)<br>
+::(Street address, if known)<br>
+::([http://zip-codes.nonsolocap.it/ postal code]) (city) (Province abbreviation:TN)
+::Italy<br>
+*[http://zip-codes.nonsolocap.it/ '''Find the Italian postal code here.''']<br>
-To obtain civil registration records, you can write to the town. Civil officials will generally answer your correspondence in Italian. Your request may be forwarded if the records have been sent to the tribunale or the provincia.
+'''Address for provincial office:''' <br>
+::Ufficio dello Stato Civile<br>
+::Provincia di Trentino-Alto Aldige/Südtirol<br>
+::38100 Trento TN
+::Italy<br><br>
-'''Provincial archives'''. Copies of the pre-1866 records are in the provincial archives.
+After you have determined what office has jurisdiction over the records you need, write a brief request to the proper office. '''Write your request in Italian whenever possible. For writing your letter in Italian, use the translated questions and phrases in this [[Italy Letter Writing Guide|Italy Letter Writing Guide.]] Send the following:'''
-Many of these records have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library. For records not microfilmed, write to the provincial archives if your request to the comune was not successful.
+*Cashier’s check or international money order (in local currency) for the search fee. See [[Italy Letter Writing Guide#How To Send Return Postage and Money|'''How To Send Return Postage and Money''']].
-Addresses for obtaining civil registration records from the provincial archives are in:
-*Cole, Trafford R. ''Italian Genealogical Records: How to Use Italian Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Other Records in Family History Research.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1997. (FHL book EUROPE 945 D27c.)
-*''Archivum; revue internationale des archives publié e avec le concours financier de l’Unesco et sous les auspices du Consil internationale des archives (International review on archives published by the International Council of Archives with the financial aid of Unesco).'' Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de France, 1952. (FHL book EUROPE REF 020.5 Ar25 v. 38.)
-In addition, you can find a complete list of archives and their hours, services, and fees on the Internet. For more information about useful Internet sites, see the "Computer Networks and Bulletin Boards" portion of [[Italy Archives and Libraries]].
-You may also find archive inventories that describe the record keeping systems and available civil registration records in Italy. These and other guides are found in the FamilySearch Catalog under:
-''ITALY- ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES''
-''ITALY, [PROVINCE]- ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES''
-After you have determined what office has jurisdiction over the records you need, write a brief request to the proper office. Send the following:
-*Cashier’s check or international money order (in local currency) or the search fee.
 *Full name and the sex of the person sought.
 *Names of the parents, if known.
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 *Request for a complete extract of the record
 *International reply coupon, available from large post offices (optional).
+<br>
+If your request is unsuccessful, search for duplicate records that may have been filed in other archives or search in church registers.
+<br>
-If your request is unsuccessful, search for duplicate records that may have been filed in other archives or church registers.
+\
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