Registri Parrocchiali Italiani Italian Parish Records
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Sito web per i registri Parrocchiali Italiani Website for Italy's Catholic Parish Registries
Did you know no other source has recorded the everyday lives of Italians in such depth and breadth from the 1500s through the 1900s? By papal decree (Council of Trent, 1545-1563), ordinances were documented and kept by the parish scribes detailing names, births, marriages, deaths, occupations, and census information. Socio-economic conditions, the devastating after-effects of natural disasters and sporadic outbreaks of the plague, complex human migration patterns throughout Italy over the centuries – all can be studied and analyzed through parish records. Hand-written on old paper that has deteriorated over time they need to be digitized before they are inextricably lost.
Visualizza alcuni dei record danneggiati View some of the damaged records.
Nuovo nei notri Archivi: New to our Archives
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Frigento, Avellino, Campania: Indexed Civil Birth Records 1809-1815. Suzie Greco
Rende, Cosenza, Calabria: Digitized Parish Records Santa Maria Maggiore - Battesimi 1624-1644, 1647-1672, 1683-1812, Matrimoni 1652-1827. Donated by Michael W. Pastore, Digitized by Francesco E. Fullone, Permission granted by Don Domenico Sturino, Parish Priest, and Francesco Salerno, Director of the Palazzo Zagarese Civic Museum of Rende.
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Using the 9 Volume Set of books published in 2010 by the Perfect of the Vatican Secret Archives, Father Sergio Pagano. Titled Il censimento degli archivi ecclesiastici d'Italia del 1942
This collection presents an inventory acquired during the census conducted in 1942-1943 at the behest of Cardinal Giovanni Mercati, of the Italian Parish registries.
Please note this census information informs us what registries may still be available today for digitizing and allows researchers to gather data about the time range the sacramental records began in communes across Italy.
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