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

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Italy is a country in Southwestern Europe bordered by France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, San Marino, and Vatican City. It became a unified country in 1861. The official language is Italian.

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Genealogy records are kept on the state, province, and local level in Italy. Click on a province or use the list of province links under Jurisdictions.

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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.

• Abruzzo
• Aosta Valley*
• Basilicata
• Calabria
• Campania
• Emilia-Romagna
• Friuli-Venezia Giulia*
• Lazio
• Liguria
• Lombardia (Lombardy)
• Marche
• Molise
• Piemonte (Piedmont)
• Puglia (Apulia)
• Sardegna (Sardinia)*
• Sicilia (Sicily)*
• Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol*
• Toscana (Tuscany)
• Umbria
• Veneto

Provinces

Agrigento, Sicily Alessandria, Piedmont Ancona, Marche Aosta, Valle d’Aosta Arezzo, Tuscany Ascoli Piceno, Marche Asti, Piedmont Avellino, Campania Bari, Apulia Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia Belluno, Veneto Benevento, Campania Bergamo, Lombardy Biella, Piedmont Bologna, Emilia-Romagna Bolzano or South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Brescia, Lombardy Brindisi, Apulia Cagliari, Sardinia Caltanissetta, Sicily Campobasso, Molise Carbonia-Iglesias, Sardinia Caserta, Campania Catania, Sicily Catanzaro, Calabria Chieti, Abruzzo Como, Lombardy Cosenza, Calabria Cremona, Lombardy Crotone, Calabria Cuneo, Piedmont Enna, Sicily Fermo, Marche Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna Florence (Firenze), Tuscany Foggia, Apulia Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna Frosinone, Lazio Genoa (Genova), Liguria Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Grosseto, Tuscany Imperia, Liguria Isernia, Molise La Spezia, Liguria L’Aquila, Abruzzo Latina, Lazio Lecce, Apulia Lecco, Lombardy Livorno, Tuscany Lodi, Lombardy Lucca, Tuscany Macerata, Marche Mantua (Mantova), Lombardy Massa and Carrara, Tuscany Matera, Basilicata Medio Campidano, Sardinia Messina, Sicily Milan (Milano), Lombardy Modena, Emilia-Romagna Monza and Brianza, Lombardy Naples (Napoli), Campania Novara, Piedmont Nuoro, Sardinia Ogliastra, Sardinia Olbia-Tempio, Sardinia Oristano, Sardinia Padua (Padova), Veneto Palermo, Sicily Parma, Emilia-Romagna Pavia, Lombardy Perugia, Umbria Pesaro and Urbino, Marche Pescara, Abruzzo Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna Pisa, Tuscany Pistoia, Tuscany Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Potenza, Basilicata Prato, Tuscany Ragusa, Sicily Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna Reggio Calabria, Calabria Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna Rieti, Lazio Rimini, Emilia-Romagna Rome (Roma), Lazio Rovigo, Veneto Salerno, Campania Sassari, Sardinia Savona, Liguria Siena, Tuscany Sondrio, Lombardy South Tyrol (Bolzano – Alto Adige), Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Syracuse (Siracusa), Sicily Taranto, Apulia Teramo, Abruzzo Terni, Umbria Trapani, Sicily Trento (Trent), Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Treviso, Veneto Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Torino (Turin), Piedmont Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Varese, Lombardy Venice (Venezia), Veneto Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont Vercelli, Piedmont Verona, Veneto Vibo Valentia, Calabria Vicenza, Veneto Viterbo, Lazio