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Because passport records can be hard to find and access, you may want to check with the anagrafe (registrar’s office) in each comune. This office keeps records of residency changes and emigration along with dates and probable destinations. | Because passport records can be hard to find and access, you may want to check with the anagrafe (registrar’s office) in each comune. This office keeps records of residency changes and emigration along with dates and probable destinations. | ||
Some passport applications have survived the years and are currently being digitizied and indexed by the [http://immigrants.byu.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx BYU Immigrant Ancestors Project]. Although it is an ongoing project, you may do a name search on the information indexed to this date. | Some passport applications have survived the years and are currently being digitizied and indexed by the [http://immigrants.byu.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx BYU Immigrant Ancestors Project]. Although it is an ongoing project, you may do a name search on the information indexed to this date. | ||
==== Passport Records (passaporti) ==== | |||
Research use: Contain useful lineage linking information, relationships; may contain birth and marriage information. Can frequently link between place of origin and place of emigration. | |||
Record type: Records of passports authorized on a provincial basis (registri delle vidimazioni dei passaporti per la provincia) | |||
Time period: 1800's to present (a few earlier) | |||
Contents: Names of passengers holding passport or migration permits and the names of their parents, places of residence or origin, dates of migration, destinations, relationships with other passengers or party members, and vital information such as birth dates, marriage dates, children, etc. | |||
Location: Notarial offices / state archives. | |||
Population coverage: 10 to 30% where records exist. The actual coverage of the population cannot be calculated. | |||
Reliability: Good. | |||
Accessibility: These are usually housed at the state archives and are accessible to academics and serious researchers by request.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Italy,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.</ref> | |||
=== Records of Italian Emigrants in Their Destination Countries === | === Records of Italian Emigrants in Their Destination Countries === | ||