Archives: Archivi

Marital status

LThe Alessandria State Archive holds the Civil Registry files (1804 – 1814) issued by the towns of the Marengo Department, an old Napoleonic division. issued by the towns of the Marengo Department, an old Napoleonic division: Alessandria (and locality Cantalupo, Casalbagliano, Cascinagrossa, Castelceriolo, Castelferro, Lobbi, Mandrogne, Orti/Jardins, Portanuova, Retorto, San Giuliano Nuovo, San Giuliano Vecchio, Piana di San Michele, Spinetta Marengo, Valle delle Grazie/Valmadonna, Valle San Bartolomeo, Villa del Foro); Alluvioni Cambiò (today Alluvioni Piovera); Annone (today Castello d’Annone); Basaluzzo; Bassignana; Borgoratto; Bosco Marengo; Capriata d’Orba; Casal Cermelli; Cassine; Castelferro; Castellazzo Bormida; Castelspina; Cerro Tanaro; Felizzano; Frascaro; Fresonara; Frugarolo; Guazzora; Isola S. Antonio; Masio e Redabue; Montecastello; Oviglio; Pasturana; Pavone; Pecetto; Piovera e Rivellino (today Alluvioni Piovera); Predosa; Quargnento; Quattuordio; Sezzè (today Sezzadio); Solero; Valenza.

The file has an attached inventory, which is available for consultation at the study room.

The Historical Archives of the City of Alexandria, containing the series, is also preserved:

• Napoleonic civil status (1803 – 1814)
• Parish registers (1838 – 1865)
• Birth Lists (1790 – 1865)
• Population states (1726 – 1828)
• Population registers (1864 – )

Draft lists

The Leverage Office fund for the province of Alexandria. (1792 – 1945) mainly includes conscription lists, extraction lists, alphabetical lists (sometimes bound in a large volume, others sometimes consisting of fascicles or small registers each relating to a single municipality grouped in envelopes and divided by year) and summary registers of conscription board decisions relating to municipalities in the province of Alexandria. The Recruitment Lists available in the Archive include data from recruits until the class of 1945.

Matriculation sheets and roles

The Alessandria Province Draft Cards and military records is composed of military records, Draft Cards and lists from the former circumscriptions and military districts of Alessandria, Acqui Terme, Asti, Casale Monferrato e Tortona. All of them cover the classes of 1840-1945. These files are divided in several groups, sometimes subdivided by district (please note that the Acqui and Asti districts reach only the 1870 class), and sometimes by type of file or by military class (the date of birth). Most of the files, despite the absence of a serial number, have some information on the back about the military class, the district and sometimes the draft card number.

Other Sources In The Archive

The State Archives of Alessandria have made available online the Registers of Matricular Rolls for the 1913-1939 districts of Alessandria, Casale Monferrato and Tortona.

Civil registry

The Naples State Archive holds the Naples Province Civil Registry from 1809 to 1865.

For the period between 1865 and 1900 there is a second inventory of Civil Registry that includes the citizenship certificates (most of them were residence changes), but there were many gaps in this archive.

Army census

The Napoli Province Recruitment Office archive holds the Recruitment Lists of the young males born between 1842 and 1949 called to draft examination.

Recruitment number and military draw number

The Naples Military District (classes of 1853-1910); Aversa Military District (classes of 1853-1910); and Nola Military District(classes of 1853-1910) hold the Draft cards, in which we can find information about the military service and campaigns, the Army corps in which the privates and non-commissioned officers served until their discharge.

Online Sources

The institute has created an internal database –which is available for consultation- of the draft cards of the three military districts from 1901 to 1910.

Other Sources in the Archive

Among the archives of special interest for genealogical research we can point out the following:

• Catastro onciario : (Late 18th century, inventory 0451) this census allow us to reconstrut the family trees of the residents on Southern Italy.
• Catastro Provisional of the Ciudad de Nápoles: the Catastro muratiano (of Murat) is divided in different sections and it comprises census books and supplements (changes and sections).
  The census books contain information about the owners, the description of the properties and its value in ducats, along with a column for transactions. The new owner inscriptions were done following a chronological order at the attached files.
  Each ‘state of the section’ is organized by areas that subdivide the territory: the census units are put in progressive order in a list, called “articles of the state of the section”, which was part of the so-called “Islands”, numbered and ordered by name and place. Several Islands together formed a neighborhood.
  Since the early 19th century Napoli was divided in 12 neighborhoods and several villages. The digitalized Databases from the Napoli State Archive includes Avvocata, Chiaia, Mercato, Montecalvario and Pendino encompassing both the volumes of the State of Section and the actual cadastral system i.e., the cadastral books, in alphabetical order, listing all lots.
• the Avvocata, Chiaia, Mercato, Montecalvario and Pendino neighborhoods, which contain the states of the sections, the Census and the census books, in alphabetical order, along with the list of all districts. The database “Passports and Emigration”, subseries of the Administrative Police Division of the General Archives of the Napoli Police Headquarters, for the years 1888-1901, allows us to navigate through 22,000 files entitled to persons who were variously involved in the great migratory movements of the late 19th century: passport applicants and emigrants under the surveillance of the public security authorities.
  The nominal files that we are proposing to file trace the outlines of permanent or temporary emigration from the city and the surrounding area of Napoli, mainly of professional, artisan and working class people; at the same time, through the active surveillance carried out by the Naples Police Headquarters and the public security delegation dependent on it and active in the bustling city port, they paint a picture of the exodus from the countryside of Southern Italy, which exploded at the end of the century.
  The user will be able to search among an approximately estimated number of more than 30000 names, registered by the Questura of one of the three most important port cities in Italy.

Marital status

The State Archives of Milan preserves the civil status (1866 – 1946) paid by the Court of Milan.

– List of conscription (1840-1948).

The fund of the Milan Provincial Conscription Office contains the conscription lists (1874-1928 from 1874 to 1882 with gaps).

Matriculation sheets and roles

The fonds Military District of Lodi (1832-1924), Military District of Milan (1838-1924) and Military District of Monza (1875 -1924) preserve matriculation rolls, matriculation sheets and alphabetical rubrics.

Marital status

L’Archivio di Stato di Cremona conserva i seguenti fondi:

Civil Status Records and Ten-Year Indexes (1866-1905) and (1906-1925) of the Cremona Mandate, Civil Status Records and Ten-Year Indexes (1866-1905) and (1906-1925) of the Casalmaggiore Mandate, Civil Status Records and Ten-Year Indexes (1866-1905) and (1906-1925) of the Soresina Mandate pertaining to the Cremona Court;

Civil status records and decennial indexes (1866-1905) and (1906-1925) pertaining to the Crema Court;

Cremona Archive in the series called Napoleonic civil status-from 1797, the year in which the civil status office was established, to 1866-includes registers of births (1797- 1810), marriages (1806 -1812), and deaths (1797-1865); the series is completed by the register devoted to “Daily Population Movement ” dated 1866.

Draft lists

The draft lists are present for the classes (1840,1842-1854, 1858-1882, 1888-1939,1945) and refer to the young men who, upon reaching the age of 20, are called to the draft, and the draw lists for the classes (1840-1844, 1848-1882, 1888-1890).

Matriculation sheets and roles

The institute also holds the collection of matriculation rolls (classes 1844-1945), rubrics (classes 1867-1943) and personnel files (classes 1890-1943), records produced by the former Cremona Military District.

Online Sources.

This institution is connected to the portal “Genealogical research for Lombards across the world”, which is financed by the Lombardy Region and which facilitates the research of a forefather through structured databases of names taken from different sources.

Civil registry

The fund called the Civil Status (1820 to 1960) collects second copies of birth, marriage, death, and citizenship records since 1866 (mostly changes of residence), produced by municipalities in the Piazza Armerina district (Aidone, Barrafranca, Calascibetta, Enna, Piazza Armerina, Pietraperzia, Valguarnera Caropepe, Villarosa) and by those in the Nicosia district (Agira, Assoro, Catenanuova, Centuripe, Cerami, Gagliano Castelferrato, Leonforte, Nicosia, Nissoria, Regalbuto, Sperlinga, Troina). Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) The fund also preserves the ALLEGATIONS series.

Army census

The Enna Province Conscription Lists fund collects the conscription lists referring to male citizens who were called for conscription. The classes documented are from 1840-1948. Gaps are reported for the period 1887-1925.

Recruitment number and military draw number

The Matriculation Sheets fund preserves the files and matriculation sheets related to military personnel born in the province of Enna (1921-1945), in which it is possible to find information on the military service performed by both troops and non-commissioned officers until discharge.

Online Sources

Matriculation Sheet Lists (1921-1945) of the military district of Enna.

Marital status

The State Archives of Bari, with the sections of Trani and Barletta, conserves the civil status records collected in the fund called Atti dello Stato Civile (Civil Status Records). (1809-1938) including Decennial Indexes and Annexes for the municipalities and districts: Acquaviva delle Fonti, Alberobello, Altamura, Bari, Binetto, Bitetto, Bitonto, Bitritto, Capurso, Canneto-Montrone (later Adelfia), Casamassima, Cassano delle Murge, Castellana Grotte, Cellamare, Conversano, Gioia del Colle, Giovinazzo, Gravina di Puglia, Grumo Appula, Locorotondo, Modugno, Mola di Bari, Monopoli; Noci, Noicattaro, Palo del Colle, Poggiorsini, Polignano a Mare, Putignano, Rutigliano, Sammichele di Bari, Sannicandro di Bari, Santeramo in Colle, Toritto, Triggiano, Turi and Valenzano.

Draft lists

The recruitment files for this wide province are distributed in the sections of Bari, Barletta and Trani. Bari holds the Recruitment Council, an archived formed by various series: 1) extraction lists of the Altamura circumscription (classes of 1842-1890); 2) Navy Recruitment Lists (classes of 1876-1890) and the Reformed Lists (classes of 1882-1895) of the Bari Harbor Master; 3) Bari Recruitment Lists (classes of 1891-1925) and Reviewed men for draft (classes of 1910-1917).

Marital status

The State Archives of Ancona preserves the following fonds:

Napoleonic Civil Status (June 1808-July 1815). Includes Registers of Births, Marriages, Divorces, Deaths, and the Census for the year 1812, with relevant headings.

Papal civil state. Includes Ancona censuses for the years 1848, 1853, 1857. These are household cards on a parish basis.

General registers of population of the City of Ancona for the year 1861, with updates and notes of variations up to the end of the century. These are family records compiled on a parish basis. The series is spotty.

Copies of the Acts of birth, marriage and death of the parishes belonging to the dioceses of Ancona, Fabriano, Jesi, Loreto, Osimo and Senigallia for the years 1862-1865 (the so-called years of implantation of the Civil Status). The series has some shortcomings.

Copies of the Civil Status Acts of the Municipalities of the Province of Ancona (circa 1866-1950). The fund includes the Birth, Marriage, Death and Citizenship Acts, including their respective Attachments.

Draft lists

Conscription outcomes of those enrolled in the municipalities of the province of Ancona, from the class of 1839 to 1947. These are annual registers for each single municipality and district that the Centro documentale di Ancona (ex Distretto di Militare) pays every year to the Archivio di Stato implementing the series.

Results of sea conscription of the province of Ancona for the classes 1900-1918.

Conscription results of Lagosta (Lastovo, for the classes 1901-1925) and Zara (Zadar, for the classes 1899-1925), at the time included in the territory of the Military District of Ancona.

Matriculation sheets and roles

Army rolls of the Military District of Ancona, from the class of those born in 1874 until 1945. The rolls kept at the State Archives in Ancona concern only ‘military troopers’ (privates and inferior graduates) registered in all the municipalities of the province.

Personal records of soldiers enrolled in the Ancona Guardia di Finanza for the classes from 1830 to 1904.

Military rolls of the Navy (1901-1919). However, the rolls relate only to military personnel transferred from land to sea. The Ancona Harbour Office, on the other hand, keeps the complete series of those registered in the Italian Navy.

Special matriculation rolls. These are 39 registers paid by the Distretto Militare di Ancona to the Archivio di Stato di Ancona in December 2018. The series includes: Matriculation rolls of the Italian Red Cross, registers of partisans and partisans registered with the military district, registers of volunteers, register of the fallen, golden roll of the fallen of the Great War.

Other sources in the Archives

Registers of the deceased of the City of Ancona (1554-1861). These are the annual records of all the deaths that occurred in the town, which the parish priest noted down in alphabetical order (by the proper name of the deceased, followed by the surname).

Marital status

The Lucera section of the State Archive holds the Civil Registry files, I series(1809-1865) sent by the cities of the Foggia province and the Civil Registry files, series II(1866-1910) from the whole Lucera Court Circumscription.

Marital status

The State Archives of Foggia preserves the civil status records (1806-1899) from the municipalities of the district of the court of Foggia and civil status death records from all the municipalities of the Province of Foggia (1900-1949).

Draft lists

The Archive Intendenza di Capitanata, Guard of Honour, contains files on enlisted men (1806-1850); the fund Prefettura di Capitanata, Guerra e Marina contains files on enlisted men (1818-1861); the fund Intendenza di Capitanata, Leva militare contains files on enlisted men (1808-1865). The fund Provincial conscription office, contains conscription lists (classes 1842-1902).

Matriculation sheets and roles

The Captaincy Logistics, Honor Guard, contains personal fascicles of the recruits (1806-1850); TheCaptaincy Prefecture, War and Navy filecontains personal fascicles of the recruits (1818-1861); The Captaincy Logistics, Military Draft file contains personal fascicles of the recruits (1808-1865).

Civil registry

The Brindisi State Archive holds the Civil Registryof the cities of the Brindisi Province (1809-1960). The file is composed of the duplicates of the birth, marriage, death and citizenship certificates issued by the city registries and sent by them to the local Court each year. In 1959 some of those files (from 1809 to 1887) were sent to the State Archive, where they were inventoried and reorganized. The rest of the files, from 1888 to 1960, were sent to the Archive in 2002, and are still being inventoried. These are the cities included in this State Archive: Brindisi (and the town of Tuturano), Carovigno, Ceglie Messapica, Cellino S. Marco, Cisternino (since 1866), Erchie, Fasano (since 1866), Francavilla Fontana, Latiano, Mesagne, Oria, Ostuni, Sandonaci, S. Michele S. (and the town of S. Vito since 1912), S. Pancrazio S., S. Pietro Vernotico, S. Vito dei N., Torchiarolo, Torre S. Susanna and Villa Castelli.

Army census

The Brindisi Recruitment Officefile (classes of 1871-1944) is held at this Archive. The file was created upon registries transferred by Lecce State Archive and the Lecce Province Recruitment Office. The Recruitment Lists, issued annually by each city for the Army (and, later on, also for the Air Force) were sent to the District or the Circumscription Capital to be verified by the Recruitment Council. In 1923 the Provincial Recruitment Office were created, so the Lists from the Brindisi Province were sent to Lecce or Bari. Upon the creation of the Brindisi Province in 1927 the files were sent to the Brindisi Provincial Recruitment Office, in which the files are divided in two sections: one prior to 1927 and the other for any other new file, both of them divided by town and class.

The fileBrindisi Harbormaster holds the Navy Recruitment Lists (classes of 1900-1910).

Recruitment number and military draw number

The file Brindisi Harbormaster holds the Draft Cards (classes of 1900-1974).