Family History Research in Italy
For the past 20 years, we’ve carried out extensive research on hundreds of families at places like the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, and Family History Library in Salt Lake City, USA. The fascinating and diverse cultural heritage of the Italy has enabled us to gain a wealth of expertise in a wide variety of subject areas relating to Italian genealogy and family history, and many of the families we've worked on are available for review on this site. If you’re looking for assistance with your project, we have extensive research experience in all parts of Italy, as well as countries that your ancestors may have emigrated to like the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, and elsewhere. Please click the link below if you’d like to hire our team to assist you with a custom-made genealogy project in any of these places.
Humans have lived in Italy for the past 850,000 years, as can be seen by the physical evidence of bones, tools, and other artifacts left behind there. The Italian Peninsula has been mentioned in historical sources since ancient times, with cities like Matera (1000 BCE), Rome (750 BCE), and Naples (680 BCE) being some of the oldest in Europe. After the the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD, the country was ruled by various barbarian tribes, including the Ostrogoths, Vandals, Lombards, and Franks. Sicily and Southern Italy were also later conquered by the Normans, who were originally descendants of the Vikings in Northern Europe. Modern Europe was born in the crucible of the city-states of Italy, with Florence, Bologna, Venice, and Milan playing important roles in the development of art, commerce, and the humanities. Perhaps your ancestors played a part in this fascinating history, and left behind important documentation that connects to your present-day genealogy? To help get you started on this exciting voyage of discovery, we’ve assembled an expert team of genealogists to help you uncover the unique story of your family's journey through time.
Records for many parts of Italy can be found at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Rome, and at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence. These records include property deeds, court records, newspapers, local histories, military records, family wills, tax lists, biographies, and other types of records. However, many records relating to various regions of Italy are generally kept separately at the local level at civil registration offices, church parishes, regional archives, and local libraries. However, the most important records for Italian genealogy research would be civil registration and church records, which would be the primary record types for family history research in Italy. Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths officially began in much of Southern Italy around 1809, while records for northern parts of Italy generally became available after reunification in 1861. These records are the best place to start with your Italian genealogy search, and from there you would get into church parish records, which are sometimes available back to the 1500s or even earlier.
If you'd like to continue research on your own, please click on the following links for additional resources relating to your Spanish history and genealogy. To get the best results with your research, we'd recommend subscriptions to the following sites, as well as autosomal and Y-DNA testing to help with any longstanding brick walls you may have encountered your tree.
If you’d like to learn more about your own family history and are interested in building a high-quality, well-documented tree, we'd love to help. We're passionate about genealogy and would welcome the opportunity to assist you with creating an exciting record of your ancestors that can be enjoyed for many generations to come. Our professional research team can gather records for you in all parts of Italy, as well as many countries your ancestors might have emigrated. The surnames listed below belong to some of the most noteworthy in Italy, whose families have been thoroughly documented on our site. Please click on the links below to visit some of the pages we've created on these families, which might give you some idea about what we could also achieve for you during a typical genealogy project in Italy or elsewhere. Our on-the-ground team of researchers, who live in places like Milan, Rome, and Florence, can help you find your ancestors in Italy, as well as places like the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere. Thanks for visiting our site and good luck with your research!
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