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The following collections are state-wide record collections. Additional civil records can be found at the comune (municipality) level. You can access digitized Italian civil registration records in three ways: through the FamilySearch Historical Records, the FamilySearch Catalog, and Antenati, the Italian government's website. If you cannot locate records for your person of interest, try searching the catalog and the FamilySearch Historical Records for civil registration records at the comune level. In some cases, comunes with few or no civil registration records in the province-wide collections will have civil registration records in comune-level collections on FamilySearch.
 * FamilySearch Historical Records Many of these collections are in the process of being indexed. If the link opens to a searchable index, type in the name and other identifying information of the person of interest and click search. If you can not locate the person through this search or the collection only has browsable images, click browse ... images and select the Comune or Frazione, then record type and year that would contain information about your person of interest. If the city where your person of interest lived is not listed, try locating the records in the FamilySearch Catalog or on Antenati.
 * FamilySearch Catalog This link will take you to the catalog entry for the province. If possible, click civil registration to access provine-wide civil registration collections. If none exist, or the town where your person of interest lived is not included in the collection, click Places within... at the top of the page. Select the comune where your person of interest lived, and see if there are civil registration collections specific to that location. After you click the link to the civil registration collection, scroll to the bottom of the page to see the specific record types included in the collection. If a camera icon can be seen to the right of the collection name, click it to access the images online.
 * Antenati This website hosts the digital images of civil registration from the provincial archives of Italy. There is a great deal of overlap between this collection and the records on FamilySearch. You will need to select the type of civil registration, the comune where your ancestor lived, the record type, and the year range to access the images. The three times periods of Civil Registration are as follows:
 * Stato civile napoleonico: 1806-1815
 * Stato civile della restaurazione: 1816-1860
 * Stato civile italiano: 1860 onwards

Refer to Indetagglio, Comunes of Italy and Indettaglio, Fraziones of Italy in order to determine the municipality where your ancestor would have registered their birth, marriage, or death. If the record exists but has not been digitized, refer to Writing for Civil Registration Certificates.