Italy Genealogy

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Italy Clickable Map
Genealogy records are kept on the state level in Italy. Click on a state below to go to the state Wiki article listing more information.

States
Genealogy records are kept on the state level in Italy. Click on a state below to go to the state Wiki article listing more information.

Territories and Federal District
There are five territories and one federal district under the jurisdiction of the United States.

Former Territories
There are six former territories of the United States.

More Italy Research Strategies
Research strategies give guidance on how to research or what records to search for first. Below are additional research strategy Wiki articles for Italy.

More Italy Research Tools
Research tools can include resources that assist in locating correct records to search and determining the correct locality to search in. Below are links and Wiki articles to research tools in Italy.

FamilySearch Resources
Below are FamilySearch resources that can assist you in resourcing your family.
 * Facebook Communities - Facebook groups discussing genealogy research
 * Learning Center - Online genealogy courses
 * Historical Records
 * Family History Center locator map

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Europe Italy

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

Getting started with Italian research.

 * Welcome to the Italy page of the FamilySearch Wiki.

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.

NEW! Join the Italy Genealogy Research Community on Facebook or Skype!

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 asterisk (*). It is further divided into 109 provinces (provincie) and 8,101 municipalities (comuni).

Records are kept at the town level.

Research Tools


Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:


 * Italy Vital Records Index (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Itay Births and Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Bologna, Bologna, Civil Registration, Tribunale (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Salerno, Vallo della Lucania, Civil Registration, Tribunale (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Catania, San Biagio Parrish Catholic Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Catania, Caltagirone Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Caserta, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Cuneo Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Genova, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Messina, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Messina, Tribunale di Patti, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Napoli Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Oristano Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Nuoro Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Padova, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Reoords)
 * Italy, Pistoia Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Potenza, Lagonegro Civil Registrations (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy Salerno, Patula, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Salerno, Vallo della Lucania, Civil Registration, Tribunale (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Teramo, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy Deaths and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records
 * Italy Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy, Waldensian Evangelical Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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... See the Italian tutorials at FamilySearch.org for "Basic Italian Research", "Italian Script", and lessons one, two and three on "Reading Italian Handwriting Records".

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.

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