Italy, Benevento, Arcidiocesi di Benevento, Catholic Church Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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Italia, Benevento, Arcidiocesi di Benevento, Registri Parrocchiali

Record Description
The collection consists of images of hand-written indexes to baptisms within the Archdiocese of Benevento (Arcidiocesi di Benevento), Italy. The collection covers the years 1575 to 1908. Availability of records is largely dependent on time period and locality.

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

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These records are in Italian. For help reading the records see the wiki articles:


 * Italy Language and Languages
 * Italian Genealogical Word List

Related Wiki Articles

 * Italy Catholic Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Italy

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