Archives: Archivi

Marital status

The State Archives of Vicenza hold the following fonds:

– Civil Status of the Department of the Bacchiglione, the Napoleonic Civil Status from 1806 to 1815 of the municipalities included in the following cantons of the Napoleonic Department of the Bacchiglione is preserved:
District I of Vicenza: canton I of Vicenza; canton II of Camisano; canton III of Arzignano; canton IV of Valdagno; canton V of Barbarano
District II of Schio: canton I of Schio; canton II of Tiene; canton III of Malo
District III of Bassano: canton I of Bassano; canton III of Marostica
District IV of Asiago: Canton I of Asiago
For the department of Brenta, the Napoleonic civil status of the canton of Cittadella, in the current Province of Padua, is preserved.

– Italian Civil Status: the Vicenza State Archives hold the Italian Civil Status of the municipalities in the province of Vicenza from 1 September 1871 to 1906, with documents up to 1950. Digital reproductions of the attachments of Citizenships, Marriages, Marriage Publications, Births and Deaths are published on the Ancestor Portal.

The remaining part of the fund for the years 1906 – 1963 was paid by the Court of Vicenza in 2020 and is currently deposited at the State Archives of Verona. Digital reproductions of documents on deposit in Verona are available, within the limits established by current legislation on the processing of personal data, at the Study Room of the State Archives in Vicenza.

Draft lists

The Recruitment Lists are filed in two archives:

– Conscription lists of VicenzaThe conscription lists (classes 1848 – 1946) registered in the municipalities of the entire province of Vicenza are preserved.

– Conscription lists of Vicenza conscription (classes 1806-1862) in the municipalities of Vicenza district only;

The personal information appears in these lists only from the 1873 class on. This information is particularly useful for genealogic research, since it contains the names of the parents and the birthplace.

Matriculation sheets and roles

The Vicenza Draft Cards file holds the Draft Cards and military records (classes of 1850-1931) of the privates and non-commissioned officers.

There is also an envelope of Air Force personnel files relating to the classes from 1893 to 1902 and documentation on women who were recognised as ‘partisans‘.

Online Sources.

The Institute provides a database for the consultation of military conscription lists for the classes 1873-1901 and matriculation rolls for the classes 1892; 1897; 1898; 1899; 1914. In addition, a database is available with the list of notaries whose deeds are kept in the State Archives or in the Bassano del Grappa Archive Section. They cover a chronological span from 1361 to 1914 and concern localities in the current province of Vicenza and some municipalities in the provinces of Treviso (Asolo and Castelfranco), Belluno (Quero and Fener), Padua (Cittadella) and Venice (Noale). Another database concerning wills from 1408 to around 1850 from the Acts of the Notaries of Vicenza. There were 6136 notaries active in the district of Vicenza between the years 1359 and 1914. The documentary production packaged in registers, volumes, files and cassettes occupies a linear space of more than 600 metres in the State Archives’ repositories.

Marital status

The State Archives Section of Imola preserves the registers of the Napoleonic Civil Status(birth, marriage, death acts and attachments) produced from 1806 to 1815 by the Municipalities of the Reno Department – Imola District (Cantons of Imola, Castel San Pietro, Fontana and Lugo).

Marital status

The Ferrara State Archive Ferrara has no available sources.

Draft lists

The file Ferrara Province Recruitment Office holds the Recruitment Lists (classes of 1839-1944), the Extraction lists and the Outcome of the draft examination of all the cities of the province.

Matriculation sheets and roles

The information about the military service and campaigns of the recruits is held at the Bologna State Archive, at the Military District file(1862-1920). For Ferrara, the available files are those from 1876 to 1920. For Ferrara from 1876 to 1944.

Civil registry

The Trani State Archives Section preserves the fund of the Civil Registry (1901-1938) paid by the Court of Trani for the district: Andria; Barletta; Bisceglie; Canosa di Puglia; Corato; Minervino; Molfetta; Ruvo di Puglia; Spinazzola; Terlizzi e Trani.

Civil registry

The Isernia State Archive holds the Civil Registry files, which are subdivided in: Civil Registry (1809-1865). The Campobasso State Archive transferred the files in 1972. It sent the marriage and death certificates, the documents necessary to issue the marriage certificate (the so-called marriage processes) and the marriage announcements, as well as the “different acts”, which, through different laws, were in force since 1812. These documents are duplicates, the second copy that was sent to the Isernia Court. Most of the registries are gathered in parchment books. Civil Registry(1866-1940), which holds the Civil Registry files and the attached files from the Isernia Court, which received the second copy of the certificates. IThe documents were part of a broader ensemble of files sent by the Isernia City Hall, since the Court was set at the City Hall building, over the S. Francis Monastry, until the 1970s. IThe archive has been preserved in envelopes and it’s composed of Civil Registry and attached filesseries. It includes all cities from the Isernia Province (except Longano) and some cities from the Avellino, Campobasso, Caserta, and Naples provinces. The Forlì del Sannio Civil Registry file (1875-1899) holds the death and marriage certificates from that city.

Army census

Following the establishment of the province of Isernia, the series of Recruitment Registers (1844-1917) consisting of the extraction lists of members drawn by lot by the Municipalities and the recruitment lists drawn up by the Municipalities for each year or age class. The Campobasso State Archive transferred the files in 1972

Recruitment number and military draw number

The sources are not available at this Institute.

Marital status

The Trieste State Archive holds the Civil Registry of Trieste(1924-1944), which is composed of the duplicates of the Civil Registry files and the attached files, previously preserved in the Trieste District Court. All cities in the province are included in this file, even those given to Yugoslavia after the 1947 peace treaty.

Draft lists

The Institute holds the following files:

The Institute holds the following files: – Military records of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which includes the Recruitment Lists (classes of 1850-1900);

–Trieste conscription office for conscription lists (classes 1899-1948);

– Trieste Harbormaster, for the Trieste Navy Recruitment Lists (classes of 1901-1925) and for the Montefalcone district as well (classes of 1931-1934).

Matriculation sheets and roles

The Institute holds the following files:

– Military records of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which includes the Draft Cards and military records (classes of 1850-1900);

– Trieste military district for matricular rolls with records of service rendered, war campaigns, corps of assignment until discharge (1858-1948).

Online Sources.

The Trieste State Archives have made numerous digitisations available, including that of the matriculation sheets military district of Pola and Trieste, in which it is possible to search from the bottom, identifying the series (year) and then arriving at the name of the person sought (the names are all listed alphabetically).

Marital status

The Catania State Archives hold the fonds of the Civil Status of Catania and Province (1820-1893). Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies, established the Civil Registry in 1819. Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies, established the Civil Registry in 1819. The fund includes material produced in the Bourbon period and later in the Unification period, the modus operandi of municipalities remained virtually unchanged. Civil registrars compiled the following registers: deeds of legitimate births, deeds of illegitimate births or projets, memoranda, marriage deeds or solemn promises, death certificates and miscellaneous deeds. At the same time, the attachments to birth certificates, marriage certificates, etc. were collected in files. By Royal Decree of 15 November 1865, the new order was introduced, which provided for the compilation of citizenship registers, but did away with registers of miscellaneous deeds.

For the period 1820-1865, documentation is preserved from the civil status of Catania (but only from 1841 to 1865) and the municipalities subject to the Catania Intendency. Also included in this series was material relating to the localities now in the province of Enna (established in 1927): Assoro, Carcaci, Catenanuova, Centuripe, Gagliano, Leonforte, Nicosia, Nissoria, Regalbuto, Sperlinga and Troina. This documentation was transferred to the Enna State Archives in 2013.

Between 1866 and 1893 only the registries from the Catania province are available, except those of Caltagirone, Grammichele, Militello, Mineo, Mirabella, Palagonia, Raddusa, Ramacca, S. Cono, S. M. de Ganzeria, Vizzini.

– List of conscription (1840-1948).

The Catania Military District Fund (1840-1890) holds:

– List of conscription (1840-1948). The series also includes material from the pre-unification era. In addition to the conscription lists for the period from 1840 to 1890, there are extraction registers. For the period 1844-1891, the registers of the minutes of the ordinary meetings of the conscription councils and the general lists of deserters are also available.

The Catania Harbour Master’s Fund includes the conscription lists of enlisted personnel in the Navy and consists of 94 registers relating to the 1936-85 conscription classes. The fund can be consulted by means of payment lists broken down by year produced by the institution itself.

Matriculation sheets and roles

The file Catania Military District holds:

– Matriculation rolls (1871-1889) (includes draft classes 1871, 1877, 1880, 1887, 1889). For searches in the registers we use an alphabetical repertory consisting of a list of names and their matriculation numbers, subdivided by year. The same research tools are available online.

– Personal files of military personnel (1862-1900). This substantial core was joined in 2013 and 2016 by a further 360 files with documentation of military personnel from the classes of 1876 to 1898, supplementing the original collection. The files are sorted by class of birth. The search is carried out by means of various consultation tools structured according to the year of extraction and the alphabetical list of names of the military personnel whose file is held. The same lists are available online.

Marital status

The Lecce State Archive holds the Civil Registry files (1809-1941), which contain the birth, marriage, death and citizenship certificates (the last since 1866), issued by duplicate by the Civil Registry office of the cities of the Lecce province.

Draft lists

The Military District Fund of Lecce and Taranto (classes 1844-1925) and the Levy Office of Lecce (classes 1871-1942) conserve the draft lists in the district.

Matriculation sheets and roles

The Military District Fund of Lecce and Taranto (classes 1844-1925) and the Levy Office of Lecce (classes 1871-1942) conserve matricular rolls in the district.

Civil registry

The Latina State Archive holds the Civil Registry files (1867-2000), which have been recently sent by the Latina Court and include documents from some of the cities of the province.

Army census

The Gaeta Harbormaster file holds the Navy Recruitment Lists, which contain information about the recruits born between 1900 and 1930.

The Latina Military District (classes of 1876-1925) and Rome Military District (classes of 1854-1947) hold the Recruitment Listsof the cities of the Latina province.

Recruitment number and military draw number

The Latina Military District (classes of 1876-1925) and Rome Military District (classes of 1854-1944) hold the Draft Cardsof the cities of the Latina province.

Online Sources

The institute has also set up a specific database on the gli operai della bonifica pontina associated with the 58.852 workers employed by the Piscinara di Littoria Land Reclamation Consortium from 1926 to 1949.

Marital status

The La Spezia State Archive holds the Archive Civil status – Parish books of the La Spezia municipalities from 1838 to 1857; Civil status of the municipality of Corradano 1806 to 1814 and 1838 to 1865 (parish registers); Civil Status of Varese Ligure, from 1780 to 1859, with the statistics and census series (1837-1945). The fonds, with inventories, are freely accessible.

Draft lists

The Recruitment Lists are divided in two sections: Army (classes of 1848-1935); and Navy (classes of 1887-1985).

Online Sources.

A database of the Navy recruits of the 1888-1900 classes and the 1848-1863 classes of the Army is available at this Institute.