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Italy, Palermo, Termini Imerese, Civil Registration, Tribunale (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Overview
The general purpose of a road map through Italian Civil Registration records is to provide a guide through the multi-year collections. Tables below list the starting image and ending image for each year's entries, along with the image number associated with the index for that year. Color changes within each table highlight a transition from one image collection to another. By general convention greens are used for births (Nati), yellows for marriages (Matrimoni), and reds for deaths (Morti). Light blue has been used to indicate a repository containing records of multiple types, while light purple indicates a multi-year index file referencing multiple record types.

This particular road map is intended to provide a guide through the multi-year records files for Termini Imerese.

1862-1910: Records Split Between Termini Imerese and Villaurea
With the exception of the Allegati bundles for 1862-1910, the death records for 1890-1910, and a multiyear index for records of various types from 1886-1895, Termini Imerese's vital records have been bundled with those of the much smaller village of Villaurea. To complicate matters, records for various years are split between two catalogs, and on some occasions the name of one catalog fails to adequately denote the split (e.g., births for 1867 are split between Nati 1863-1867 and Nati 1868-1877). Because of this -- and because of the large than usual number of catalogs containing birth, marriage, and death records -- direct links to the start of each index and to key pages within each year have been added.

Index Order
Index pages for Termini Imerese's vital records are always given in order by the first letter of the surname, with prefixes such as "Di" or "D'" ignored for purposes of record ordering.

Marriage records are placed in order by the groom's name.

Split Indicies Within a Given Year
In several cases, records of a given type are split into multiple sections for a single year. For example the birth records for 1876 in Nati 1868-1877 have three distinct sections. Each section for a given year's record set contains its own index. Going back to the example of Termini Imerese's birth records for 1876, entries #1-#892 reside in one section; entries #893-#917 reside in a different section containing its own index; and "Part II" (S.P.) entries reside in a third section with its own index.

Incomplete Records
Over the course of time, pages have evidently become detached within the various record books. At the time of this writing, several of these have not been located. While some of these records missing have been identified, researchers are cautioned that there may be other missing pages not yet noted on this road map.

It is possible that these records have been filed in one of the other record sets for the Province of Palermo, in a manner similar to that of the 1869 marriage entries for Castelbuono finding their way into Cefalù's records. However, as of this writing a search of those records has not been conducted.

Decennial Index
A decennial index, Indici decennali (vari) 1886-1895, is provided for the years 1886-1895. This index references births (images 5-61), deaths (61-95), marriages (96-123), and citizenship records (124). Index entries are given in alphabetical order by surname.

Tables
For the Termini Imerese 1820-1861 records, the image numbers given in each table are for the LDS digital records which are only available for viewing at Family History Centers and affiliated libraries. However, the HTML links point to the matching record on the Antenati web site; this latter may be viewed on the internet in general. Viewers may note that the Antenati link is formed in part from a concatenation of the relevant LDS digital film number (9 digits, zero-filled), an underscore, and the image number (5 digits, zero-filled).

Images on FamilySearch are grouped according to the film on which they reside. There is no guarantee that a film will end at the close of a year, or indeed that a film will contain only one type of vital record.

By contrast, images on the Antenati web site are grouped by year and type. Additionally, Antenati frequently starts a new section of records for each separate book within the set of records for a given year. When a change of the latter type occurs, the phrase "new book on Antenati" is used to indicate that the records on a given table row are in a different Antenati section (i.e., directory folder) than those on the preceding line.

Marriage Attachments (Allegati)
The years associated with the repository containing a span of marriage attachments are given in italics for that year's notes. For example, the attachment bundles for marriage entries #1-#94 are found in Allegati (vari) 1862, while those for entries #95-#164 of the same year are found in Allegati (vari) 1862-1863.

1820-1861 (deferred)
For the years 1820-1861, the structure of each bundle varies from year to year; sometimes it will even vary within a given year. An extreme example is 1820. In that year, the bundles are initially preceded by a fully handwritten document giving the entry number of the marriage. However, by the end of that year each bundle is terminated by a marriage record sheet that bears a standard typed header (ATTO DELLA SOLENNE PROMESSA DI CELEBRARE IL MATRIMONIO) along with the marriage entry number at the top.

Further, some records split across films. Again, 1820 serves as an example; in that year the bundle for marriage entry #37 crosses from one film to another.

Consequently, due to the difficulties posed in providing a useful road map for several of the years in the 1820-1861 span, the mapping of this portion of the Allegati has been deferred.

1862-1910 (FamilySearch image numbers and links)
For the years 1862-1865, the marriage record sheet precedes the traditional cover sheet for each marriage's attachment bundle. From 1866 onward, the cover sheet is the first page of the bundle.