Archives: Archives

Marital status

The State Archives of Mantua preserves civil status records (birth, marriage, and death records and attachments) produced from 1806 to 1815 by the municipalities of the Department of the Mincio, a territorial arrangement of the Napoleonic era. It also preserves the Italian civil status, consisting of second copies of the birth, marriage, death and citizenship registers with related alphabetical indexes, of the 70 municipalities in the present province of Mantua. The records, dated between 1866-1871 and 1900, with sequels, have gaps due to the poor state of preservation in which the records were kept prior to the transfer made by the Court of Mantua. In 2014, the attachments of Italian civil status, produced from 1866 to 1948, were received with gaps. Lastly, the civil status of the ” Israelite Communities” of Mantua and the territory for the years 1826,1845-1861 is preserved; there is also correspondence regarding the transmission of the same sheets and an excerpt from the protocol “of deaths by Israelite soldiers” referred to Mantua for 1855. The documents constitute a series of the Mantua Provincial Delegation fund, combined in 8 envelopes.

Draft lists

The Institute preserves draft lists (classes of those born between 1839-1846 and 1941), referring to young men called for military examination, with Austrian and Italian Military Levies (1839-1866) and Military Levies (1853-1941).

Matriculation sheets and roles

Matriculation rolls document the actual services rendered by soldiers born in the province of Mantua and any events that changed their position within their military career. Specifically:
Verona military district. Rolls and matriculation files, classes 1914-1937, with antecedents.
Brescia military district. Office of Records and Matriculation. Officers belonging to the province of Mantua, classes 1870, 1896-1929, with gaps.

Online Sources.

Beginning in 1992, the Mantua State Archives established the Lists of Conscription database, including more than 180,000 names related to the male population residing in the province of Mantua from 1847 to 1900. Since September 2009, as a result of an agreement signed with the Association of Mantuans in the World, it has been possible to consult online the draft data of all seventy Mantuan municipalities from 1860 to 1890. The database is currently no longer accessible due to termination of the agreement. At the institute it is also possible to consult images of the matriculation rolls of Mantua’s soldiers from the draft classes 1838,1848,1851,1866-1899 and their rubrics, documentation currently kept at the State Archives in Verona.

Other sources in the Archives

• Necrological Registers of the Gonzaga Archives : The series Necrological Registers kept in the Gonzaga Archives, was produced by the offices in charge of recording deaths that occurred in the city of Mantua in the 15th-17th centuries; it consists of 36 volumes dated between 1496 and 1694 (with gaps).
• D’Arco Families: The nineteenth-century manuscript work of Carlo D’Arco Genealogical annotations of Mantuan families that can serve the exact compilation of their histories, collects in eight volumes (the last two are bound together) the history and family trees of more than 530 Mantuan families in alphabetical order. Each volume, except the last, is accompanied by indexes.

Civil registry

The Siena State Archives preserves the civil status of Siena and its province (1866-1970) paid by the court of Siena for the following municipalities: Asciano, Buonconvento, Casole d’Elsa, Castellina in Chianti, Castelnuovo Berardenga, Chiusdino, Colle Val d’Elsa, Gaiole in Chianti, Montalcino, Monteriggioni, Monteroni d’Arbia, Monticiano, Murlo, Poggibonsi, Radda in Chianti, Radicondoli, Rapolano Terme, San Gimignano, San Giovanni d’Asso, Siena, Masse di Siena, Sovicille, and Trequanda. Lacking are the records of the municipalities included in the territory of the suppressed court of Montepulciano, which are still kept at that location.

Army census

The Siena Recruitment Office file contains the lists of recruits called to examination (classes of 1842-1920) in the cities of the present province, divided in the Siena and Montepulciano circumscriptions. The Recruitment Lists of the next military classes are held in the Florence State Archive.

Recruitment number and military draw number

The Siena Military District file holds the Draft Cards with alphabetical lists (classes of 1843-1945) of the recruits; The file includes the officers fascicles as well (classes of 1841-1870).

Marital status

The State Archives in Florence hold the Civil Status of Tuscany fund containing the papers produced by the Civil Status Office in the period 1808-1865.
The archive contains both the series of extracts sent by the parish priests, the series of registers and directories useful for research, as well as the numerous accompanying papers useful for drawing up civil status documents. There is also documentation on the life of the Office and other tasks with which it was entrusted, such as the production of periodic statistics and the population census.
Some units are missing (175 pieces) or flooded (23 pieces). Specific indications on the number of missing pieces are given in the inventory notes and the individual series cards.
The papers follow a unique numbering system determined by a progressive “order number” which was assigned, for reasons of management simplicity, when the State Archives took charge of the Civil Status papers.
Unique string numbering for the whole fund: 1-12,548
The following series, the most significant and consulted of the Civil Status of Tuscany, are available on replacement microfilm and, therefore, cannot be requested in original:

• Index of deeds by community for the period 1808-1814;
• Alphabetical decennial indexes for the years 1808-1837;
• General alphabetical indexes for the period 1818-1865;

The following series are available on microfilm or online at the Antenati portal:

• Birth registrations for the years 1808-1865;
• Records of marriages and deaths for the years 1808-1838.

Draft lists

The fund of the Florence Conscription Office contains documentation from the 1842 conscription class onwards (Conscription lists, Draught lists, Summary registers of Conscription Council decisions) and also includes material from the Conscription Offices. Pistoia, Rocca San Casciano and San Miniato, già circondari della provincia di Firenze, rispettivamente per le classi 1842-1879, 1842-1851 e 1842-1891.

With the reform of conscription offices and the establishment of a single office for the whole of Tuscany, the State Archives of Firenze began to receive conscription lists from all the provinces.

Since 1992, the documentation provided therefore concerns the entire male population subject to compulsory military service in the Tuscan provinces. The archives are organized as follows: Firenze conscription office (conscription lists from the class 1842 to 1945); Arezzo (draft lists from the class of 1921 to 1945); Grossetto (for the classes of 1921 to 1945); Livorno(for the classes between 1924 and 1945); Lucca (dalla classe 1924 al 1945); Massa Carrara (dalla classe 1924 al 1945); Pisa (dalla classe 1924 al 1945); Pistoia (classi 1842-1879, e dalla classe 1915 al 1945); Siena (dalla classe 1921 al 1945).

The conscription registers do not have directories and are on a municipal basis, which is why a search can only be carried out if you know the municipality of residence of the person sought.

The collection is described up to the class of 1939 in a summary inventory that can be consulted online on the Archive website.

Matriculation sheets and roles

The matriculation roles of troop soldiers and non-commissioned officers from the former military districts of Arezzo (from the class of 1875 to 1942); Florence (from the class of 1860 to 1945, with headings from the class of 1866 onwards); Pistoia (from the class of 1871 to 1935) have been transferred to the State Archives.

The registers, subdivided by conscription class and sorted according to the serial number assigned to each soldier at the time of enlistment, are accompanied by alphabetical headings that make it possible to identify the names. Due to their poor state of preservation, the rubrics are not directly accessible to scholars, so searches are carried out by the staff of the State Archives.

Other Sources In The Archive

The Papiani Ceramics Collection, Established over the course of many years by Enrico Ceramelli Papiani (1896-1976), this fund is kept in the Firenze State Archives and consists of almost 8000 files, in the name of Tuscan families of ancient origin, which provide genealogical and heraldic information taken from archival sources kept in the Florentine Archives or in other archival institutions or libraries in the region.

Based on the information on the coats of arms of Tuscan families described in the Collection, a database has been created and digital reproductions of images of noble arms have been associated with the card of the coats of arms. Searching the database is facilitated by a friendly search mask and a dictionary of heraldic terms with explanatory images. The database also provides information about theCollection and the person who set it up.

Matricular rolls of troop soldiers and non-commissioned officers from the former military districts of Arezzo (from class 1875 to 1942); Florence (from class 1866 to 1945); Pistoia (from class 1871 to 1935).

Repertorio generale dei testamenti, 1570-1900. The Repertorio generale dei testamenti constitutes a useful research tool for accessing wills conserved in the Notarile moderno and Notarile postunitario fonds, signed or received by Tuscan notaries between 1570 and 1900. It is organised chronologically (on a ten-yearly and, from 1791, five-yearly basis) and alphabetically by the surname of the testator or testatrix, with an indication, for each entry, of the respective data on: patronymic, name of the notary notary and date of the deed.

Civil registry

The Civil Registry archive holds the duplicates of the birth, marriage, death and citizenship certificates (most of them are residence changes from 1866 on), instituted by the Bourbon Reform and maintained by the Kingdom of Italy between 1820 and 1930.

Army census

The Recruitment Lists of many generations are held in the archive of the Caltanisetta Military District. These lists include young males born in the district between 1840 and 1945. The Historic Archive of Caltanisetta (1813-1849), in the registries sub-series, holds the military records of soldiers of the National Guard.

Recruitment number and military draw number

Caltanissetta Military District preserves the series of Sheets (1858-1920) and Matriculation Rolls (1880-1897).

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.

Marital status

The Civil Registry files were sent to the institute from the Saluzzo and Mondovì Courts and are gathered in the “Civil Registry” archive in two sections: Saluzzo and its circumscription (most of those files are from 1803 to 1813) and Mondovì and its circumscription (from 1864 to 1899). These files are birth, marriage and death certificates and, for the Kingdom of Italy Era in Mondovì, also citizenship certificates (most of all residence changes). The Mondovì section gathers Parish Books (1853-1865). The Restoration Era files at the Ancestry portal are only available for Bonvicino (citizens born in 1853). The birth certificates of Mondovì between 1864 and 1899 include an attached name index.

Draft lists

The Cuneo Recruitment Office holds the Recruitment Lists of the male residents born in the Alba, Cuneo, Mondovì (classes of 1792-1942) and Saluzzo circumpscriptions (classes of 1806-1918).

Matriculation sheets and roles

In the fund named Cuneo Military District are collected the matriculation rolls referring to male citizens, born between 1843 and 1947 in the municipalities of the Cuneo and Saluzzo districts , serving in the military. The Mondovi Military District fund contains matriculation rolls for those born from 1843 to 1935 in the municipalities of the Mondovi and Alba districts. The series Personal fasciclesof the privates (classes of 1915-1935) and non-comissioned officers (classes of 1869-1924) contains original documents summarized in the draft cards that give us detailed information about the discipline, illnesses, punishments, etc.

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.