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Title in the Language of the Records
Stato Civile di Termini Imerese, Palermo, Italia.

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).

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

Index Order
Index pages for Cefalù's vital records are always given in order by the first letter of the surname. However, sorting of prefixes such as "Di" and "D'" varies. For records from 1862-1876, the prefix is ignored; e.g., the surname D'Angelo is treated as Angelo. For records from 1877 onward, the prefix is considered part of the surname.

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

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.

The largest section of missing records is the set of birth records starting at the end of 1878 and continuing through 1879. 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 1877 marriage records for Patti having finding their way into Gioiosa Marea's books in the Province of Messina, but as of this writing a search of those records has not been conducted.