Italy Genealogy

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

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.

Regions
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.

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.
 * Locating Italian Birth Records: 1520-1808, 1809-1865, 1866-Present
 * Locating Italian Marraige Records: 1520-1808, 1809-1865, 1866-present
 * Locating Italian Death Records: 1520-1808, 1809-1865, 1866-present
 * Letter Writing Guide
 * Interpreting Italian records
 * Finding Records of Your Ancestors, Italy 1809-1910
 * Italian Script Tutorial
 * BYU Research Guide for Italy.
 * Italian Occupations List

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.




 * Italian Records Available Through FamilySearch
 * Websites
 * Latin Genealogical Word List
 * Surname Maps
 * Italian Genealogical Word List
 * Translation of printed civil birth forms
 * Translation of printed civil marriage forms
 * Translation of printed civil death form
 * Anglo-Italian Family History Society online transcriptions of Italian names in the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 England censuses.

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

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.