US Citizen Services: US Diplomatic Mission to Italy Rome: The U.S. Embassy in Rome offers a full range of services for U.S. citizens in the regions of Lazio, Marche, Umbria, Abruzzo, and Sardegna. Non-emergency services (e.g. renewal of U.S. passports, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad and notarials) provided by the American Citizen Services Unit at U.S. Embassy Rome are available through an online appointment system. Milan: The U.S. Non-emergency services (e.g. renewal of U.S. passports, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad and notarials) provided by the American Citizen Services Unit at U.S. Florence : The U.S. Non-emergency services (e.g. renewal of U.S. passports, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad and notarials) provided by the American Citizen Services Unit at U.S. Naples: The U.S. Non-emergency services (e.g. renewal of U.S. passports, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad and notarials) provided by the American Citizen Services Unit at U.S. Genoa (Consular Agency): Limited consular services provided.Contact Information and Office Hours
Home | Ancestors FamilySearch: Italy Church Records From FamilySearch Wiki Italy Church Records Learn how to use Italian church records with a new online class! Although the Italian government recognizes other religions, the Roman Catholic Church is traditionally recognized as the state church because most Italians are Roman Catholic. All references to church records in Italy, unless otherwise specified, refer to Catholic records. Church records [registri ecclesiastici] are excellent sources for accurate information on names; dates; and places of births, marriages, and deaths. Records of births, marriages, and deaths are commonly called vital records. Church records are crucial for research before the civil government started keeping vital records, which began about 1809 to 1820. For more information about government vital records, see Italy Civil Registration- Vital Records. General Historical Background In general the church began keeping records in 1563 because of reforms proclaimed at the Council of Trent. Duplicate Church Records Baptisms
Genealogy Surname Boards & Searches Italian Genealogy Online S i t e M a p Genealogy Surname Boards & Searches This Surname Board List has hand-picked links to most of the popular Italian Genealogy Surname Message Boards where you can search and post your Italian surname originating in any of the municipalities / comunes of Italy. General Genealogy Boards & Lists are also included when they contain a good amount of Italian Surnames. You will also find sites that list Italian Surnames that are to be found in or originated from a particular Town and/or Region in Italy to help you in your Italian Family Tree Search.
My Italian Family The origin of Italian surnames dates back from the end of the 1500s when parish priests were obligated to register parishioners with their Christian names and surnames in order to stop marriages between blood relatives. Surnames come from different sources: first names, nicknames, geographic locations, professions, objects and titles, but each Italian region has adopted some types more than others with different spelling variations. Tracing these sources and variations is part of genealogical research and unveils an important part of family history and Italian heritage. My Italian Family is offering the opportunity to learn the meaning and history of your Italian surnames. Surname origin, meaning, geographic distribution, its variants, alterations and derivatives and pronunciation. The costs are the following: TRIVIA: Many Italian surnames were derived from first names, originating with the name of the head of the household.
ItalyGen: Italian Genealogical Records Acts of birth, marriage and decease Who were the parents of our parents, where and when they were born, and how many children they had? We have two available sources to know all of that: the parish records (made by the churches or parishes) and the records made and conserved by the Italian State (Civil Register = stato civile). They have the necessary information about births, marriages and deaths. Parish records were used since long time ago, before the civil records. Archives of Dioceses - How to locate Dioceses and Italian Parishes? Civil Registration The French Revolution achieved in 1789 the separation of the Church and the State, and in 1792 the Civil Records were ruled, reaffirmed by the Napoleon Code, source of inspiration of all European legislations. The Civil Register was implemented in Italy by Napoleon I, when he was crowned as the King of Italy (1805). Yet, not all is that simple. These topics are fundamental:
ItalyGen: Italian Vital Records The best port of departure to your Italian ancestors' adventure Projects grouped by Italian regions Currently based in Italy, many associations of genealogists and archivists projects are focused on saving its heritage preserved in Italian parishes, which is in serious danger of deterioration. There are also initiatives from individuals, who transcript all births, marriages, deaths, censuses and documents from civil acts conserved in several Italian communes. Here’s a list of these projects, grouped by Italian regions: Search Vital Records FamilySearch Unites with Italian Archive Organization to Digitize Civil Registration Records - More than 23 million images and four million searchable names from Italian genealogical records that were previously available only in archives or on microfilm are now available on the Church’s family history research site, new.FamilySearch.org.
Italy GenWeb Italian Genealogical Group: Rivelli [From the May 1997 Newsletter] by Jim Grillo For those in more advanced stages of research, Italian census records called Rivelli are a little known and surprisingly accessible source of information. The record can be a treasure trove of genealogical information. The records are found in Sicily (the author has found them in provinces of Trapani and Palermo) and recently many of them have been filmed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The years the census was taken were sporadic. With a little luck and perseverance you may find as I did (with the help of Louis Mendola who directly consulted the Rivelli of Gibellina at the State Archives in Palermo) that an ancestor of yours living in 1714 owned a small parcel of land, two rental houses and a pig, and rendered an annual payment of two ounces in local taxes to the Prince of Poggio Reale! [Note: These types of census or tax records are found in other parts of Italy under different names such as catasti.