Italy, La Spezia, Civil Registration, State Archive - FamilySearch Historical Records

Italy

What is in This Collection?
This collection includes a civil registration (stato civile) of births, marriages, and deaths within the custody of the State Archive of La Spezia (Archivio di Stato di La Spezia) for the years 1780 to 1865. Availability of records is largely dependent on time period and locality.

The registration of birth, marriage, and death were kept on separate registers. Supplemental files include a title page followed by several documents such as:
 * Notes from hospitals regarding births or deaths
 * Notes from other towns or foreign countries (if a birth or death did not occur in the regular place of residence)
 * Marriage files
 * Marriage banns
 * Declarations of intention to marry
 * Other certificates

Often there is an alphabetic index (list of names included in the record) at the end of a record type. Most of the records in this collection follow a generally accepted format. In early years they were handwritten in narrative style and in later years were hand-filled printed forms. Some of the original records were damaged due to natural elements at the time of filming; therefore, some information may have been lost or hard to read, are for the most part readable.

For additional details about the contents of these records, their history, and help using them see the wiki article: Italy, Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Reading These Records
These records are in Italian. For help reading these records see the following guides:
 * Italy Language and Languages
 * Italian Genealogical Word List
 * Script Tutorial for Italian
 * Italy Handwriting
 * FamilySearch Learning Center videos:
 * Reading Italian Handwritten Records

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Record Finder
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Citing This Collection
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"Italy, La Spezia, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1780-1865." Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 28 April 2017. Citing Archivo di Stato della Spezia [La Spezia State Archive].
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