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
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Updates Suzanne E. Greco, Founder & Director
Papal Dispensations in Marriage Records of Baselica (Parma), 1700-1806 Laura M. Zucconi, Professor, Stockton University
Bridging Genealogy & Historical Demography: A Case Study of Bozzano Parish Records Sonia Benassini
Tracing Shadows along the Po River: The Genealogical Hunt for the Soresi Family of Calendasco Paolo Venturini
Corato Emigration Project James Smith
Read A Historical Life Course Journal Article (Employing data extracted from civil and parish records)
A Comparison of Rule-based & Supervised Machine Learning Approaches for Record Linkage of Italian Historical Data by Saverio Minardi, Nicola Barban, and Suzanne Greco link
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
August
Palermo City (Molo section), Palermo, Sicilia: Indexed Civil Marriage Banns 1820. Maurilio Ponzo
Paceo, Trapani, Sicilia: Indexed Civil Marriage Banns 1822. Maurilio Ponzo
Marsala, Trapani, Sicilia: Indexed Civil Marriage Banns 1929. Angela Whaley
Marsala, Trapani, Sicilia: Indexed Civil Marriages 1829. Angela Whaley
Trapani City, Trapani, Sicilia: Indexed Civil Marriages 1928. Sofia Licata
Marsala, Trapani, Sicilia: Indexed Civil Death Records 1852. Monica Galfano
Salemi Trapani, Sicilia: Indexed Civil Death Records 1821. Maurilio Ponzo
Marsala, Trapani, Sicilia: Indexed Civil Death Records 1837 Supplement 2. Monica Galfano
Loano, Savona, Liguria: Indexed Civil Death Records 1880. Giovanni Bruno
Palermo City, Palermo, Sicilia: Indexed Civil Marriage Banns 1936 No. 7. Maurilio Ponzo
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Individuals with existing relationships with Bishops/Priests in Italy, who can assist us in obtaining permission to digitize parish records. Legal papers will be provided.
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Information for records that maybe available for your ancestral parish. Link
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.