Registri Parrocchiali Italiani Italian Parish Records
Preservare l'inestimabile storia d'Italia Preserving the Priceless History of Italy
Un popolo senza una conoscenza della propria storia, origine e culture passate è come un albero senza radici. Marcus Garvey
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, & culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey
Parrocchie digitizzate
Searchable indexed records
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A Taste of Things Lost: Reconstructing Lost Parish Records From Civil Registration Sources — A Historial & Demographic Case Study From Calamonaci, Sicily Noah J. Graf, Esq.
Roots Travel: The Search for Identity Through Genealogy Miriam Lullo
IPR is proud to be collaborating with Dr. Nicola Barban at the University of Bologna with the Project called GENPOP. Genes, Genealogies, and the Evolution of Demographic Change in Social Equality, funded by the European Research Council. Our databases, provided by our stalwart indexers, are being used for this prestigious research project.
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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Lacedonia, Avellino, Campania: Indexed Catasto Onciario 1753. Travis Miscia
Miane, Treviso, Veneto: Digitized Matrimoni Records 1701-1935 Parrocchia Santa Maria di Miane.
Miane, Treviso, Veneto: Digitized Morti Records 1884-1939 Parrocchia Santa Maria di Miane.
Vita, Trapani, Sicilia: Indexed Marriage Banns 1895-1898. Maurilio Ponzo
Miane, Treviso, Veneto: Digitized Matrimoni Records 1565-1701 Parrocchia Santa Maria di Miane.
Magliano de' Marsi, L'Aquila, Abruzzo: Indexed Civil Birth, Marriage, & Death Records 1809-1825. Stephanie Palumbo Trotter
Lercara Friddi, Palermo, Sicilia: Indexed Birth Records 1920-21. Anna Pecoraro
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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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