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Cyndi's list of genealogy
sites on the internet
Genealogical research portal. Includes beginner's guide and
section on Italy.
Familysearch
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides a huge resource for genealogists. This includes research guides (Wiki), indexes, filmed records and a network of Family History Centres through which their extensive library is made available. Library includes some microfilmed Italian parish records. Website includes many baptisms, etc, some UK census index and some Italian records that can be browsed: not all are indexed.
Getting Started in Genealogy
and Family History
From GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy.
ItalianAncestry.com
A good set of Italian genealogical and organisation links.
The Italian Genealogical
Group (IGG)
An American-based international group, which organises many
events, and has started putting databases of records online.
Of limited use to UK-based researchers, though there is a useful
article based on a talk by Trafford Cole, introducing Italian
records.
ItalianGenealogy.com
Italian Genealogy website that includes forums. Appears to be
American based. Includes a database and general guides to Italian
genealogy such as reading Latin documents (Article archive Mar
2003), Italian dialects (Article, Feb 2003).
Italian
Genealogy Online and all things Italian
This is an excellent American web page prepared by Paula Nigro,
well worth visiting. Full of information, links and tips on
how to write letters to Italy.
Italian
Resources for Jewish Genealogy
A guide to the main resources on Italian Jewish genealogy, but also useful
for researching people of all religions.
Getting started with Italian research
This guide to researching Italian family history is from the
Latter Day Saints' FamilySearch.
Italy Gen Web
A site created to assist in genealogical research in Italy.
Includes some transcriptions and alphabetical list of communes. Mainly from
a US perspective.
Italy Letter Writing Guide
This is from the Latter Day Saints' FamilySearch.
POINT - Pursuing our Italian Names Together
How to join the American network for US/IItalian genealogy (POINT/PIE).
Backhill Online
Social website which aims to connect with the Anglo-Italian community of all generations.
Includes archive of BackHill magazine 1977-1997.
BBC Legacies: Immigration and emigration:
Bedford's Italian question
Collar the lot! Britain’s policy of internment during the Second World War
From the National Archives
Digital objects from the Edwin C. Bolles papers (Tufts Digital Library)
Collection of digitised books on the history of London from its founding to the 19th century. Includes information about the lives of Italians in London in the 19th century. Maps of London
from old site.
ENAIP
Includes information about oral history projects of the educational branch of ACLI Christian Association of Italian Workers). Provides extracts and photos from oral history projects of memories from Emilia-Romagna, Sicily and Wales.
Family Portrait: the Scots-Italians 1890-1940 : Italians resident in Scotland in the 1930s
Map of Italians living or working in Scotland in the 1930s based on the 1936 edition of the Guida Generale Degli Italiani in Gran Bretagna with some additions from Kelly’s Directory (1928).
The Ice House :
the ice well, ice trade, ice cream, and related history
London Canal Museum. London's ice cream history involved many
Italians and Swiss Italians. Website includes the full text
of a novel, Ragazzo, about Victorian London and the Tichinese
community including Carlo Gatti.
ISRC Archive: Italo-Scottish Research Cluster
Online archive with material from the 1880s, the period of the first Italian mass migration to Scotland, to the present. Includes documents for the most part not previously identified, including letters, photographs, films and other personal ephemera. Also interviews and specific family information.
The Italian Chapel (Undiscovered Scotland: The Ultimate Online Guide)
Background and history of the Italian Chapel on Orkney, Scotland.
Includes photographs and information about Italian prisoners
of war, Scapa Flow and the Churchill Barriers.
Italian Cloister Garden
About the Glasgow Arandora Star memorial garden.
The Italian Job
BBC programme looking at the vibrant and colourful Italian community
in Bedford, presented by Roberto Perrone. Includes audio recording
and links to other BBC Italian pages.
Italian Scotland
Promotes Italian heritage, language & citizenship in Scotland.
Italians in Clerkenwell: Rosa Lusardi by Olive Busagni
Archived copy of a story from Moving Here : 200 years of migration to England.
Little Italy
Liverpool Italian community near Scotland Road . More about Liverpool Italians on
Terry
Cooke's page. (from Scottie Press, community newspaper for
Vauxhall area)
Manchester's Ancoats
Little Italy by Anthony Rea
Memories of the Italian colony of Ancoats
Liverpool's Italian Families
History of Italians in Liverpool by Debra D'Annunzio.
Scotsitalian.co.uk
Scots Italian website dedicated to preserving the history of
the many Italian families and their generations that have made
Scotland their home.
SS "Arandora Star"
Information about the SS "Arandora Star", sunk in 1940, with Italian and German internees aboard.
Includes list of Italian casualties, some of whom were brought by tide and current to the Scottish island of Colonsay,
where they were laid to rest.
Welsh Italians
The story of the Avventurieri...the Adventurers, the first Italian emigrants who settled in South Wales towards the end of the last century and started the cafés without which no township in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire is now complete.
West Bar - Sheffield's
"Little Italy"
History of Sheffield's Italian population
Amici Val Ceno Galles
Organises social and cultural events in South Wales for Italians
and Welsh Italians living and working in Wales. Has strong links
with Bardi in Val Ceno.
Bristol Anglo-Italian
Circle
Arranges talks and events throughout the year on various subjects
on Italy and Italian life and culture.
British Italian Society
A forum for lovers of Italy and Italian Culture founded over
sixty years ago.
Consulate General
of Italy in London
Includes some useful links
The Embassy of Italy
in London
Includes Embassy news
Il Circolo Londra: Italian Cultural Association
For people with an an interest in Italy and Italian culture.
Italian Cultural Institute
Dublin: Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Ireland. Fosters cultural links between Ireland and Italy.
Italian Cultural
Institute in Edinburgh
Promotes Italian language and culture in Scotland and Northern
Ireland organising a wide series of events.
Italian Cultural Institute
London. Official Italian government agency for the promotion of cultural exchanges between Great Britain and Italy.
The Italian Society
of Bedford
Organises talks for anyone interested in Italian culture.
Mazzini-Garibaldi Club
London based social club originally founded in May 1864 as La Società per il Progresso degli Operai Italiani in Londra under the joint presidency of Guiseppe Mazzini and Guiseppe Garibald.
St Peter's Italian
Church : Chiesa Italiana di San Pietro
Thriving Italian church established in Clerkenwell in 19th century.
Includes news, projects, brief history and events.
Southend Anglo Italian
Circle
Aims to foster relationships and understanding between British
and Italian communities and to promote interest in Italian society,
culture and language
Catholic Heritage: Archive catalogue
Catalogue of archival holdings of insitutions in the Catholic Church, including Scottish Catholic Archives and Diocese of Westminster Archives. Use this to locate physical records."
Catholic National
Library
Lists UK Mission Registers.
Catholic Family
History Society
UK
Catholic Record
Society
Lists their publications including register transcriptions
Links to Irish RC Records in the Liverpool Area
Information about Catholic registers in the Liverpool area from
a Liverpool Irish family history website.
Liverpool History Projects
Provides access to indexes to Roman Catholic marriages, baptisms and burials in
Liverpool. Also Merseyside Aliens and other records.
Aim25: Archives in London and the M25 area
Provides collection level descriptions of the archives of over one hundred higher
education institutions, learned societies, cultural organisations and livery
companies within the greater London area.
FreeBMD
Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths. FreeBMD provides free Internet
access to the Civil Registration index information for England
and Wales. Not all years are covered yet.
London, Edinburgh,
and Belfast Gazettes
Several legal notices are required by law to be published in
the official newspapers of record in the United Kingdom. Includes
naturalisations. Includes digitised issues for both world wars.
UK BMD : Births, marriages
and deaths on the Internet
Links to web sites that offer on-line transcriptions of UK births,
marriages, deaths and censuses.
Barometers and the Italian Emigration (Jean Hood's Website)
Information about barometers and Italian emigration from Como
Biblioteca On
Line
A specialised resource centre on Italian and international migration.
Search the catalogue to identify useful articles or books that
you may be able to obtain through your local library.
Dictionnaire
des musiciens à Dunkerque
Dunkirk, France. An index of musicians, dancers, and musical
instrument makers born, domiciled or passing through Dunkirk between
1700 - 1914. Includes many Italians. Records indexed include
census, marriage and passports and migrant declarations.
ISTG (Immigrant Ships Transcribers' Guild)
Transcribed passenger lists includes some ships from Italy. Also has Compass, a guide to
assist you in your search for immigrant related information.
Italian genealogy books
An alphabetical list of books about Italian emigration.
Les archives
en France et ailleurs (FranceGenWeb)
French archives by Département, with many records available online. Many Italians
passed through France on their way to Britain and left records behind them, e.g. a birth in Paris.
The Catholic Encyclopedia
Part of New Advent Catholic website. Includes history of Italian
dioceses
Centro Studi Emigrazione Roma
The Centre for Migration Studies (CSER) was established to study
the sociological, historical, political, theological and pastoral
aspects of national and international migration movements. Includes
bibliographies, and details of their library.
Finding Your
Waldensian Ancestors
Information about Italian protestant family history.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Includes the list of names of the '1000' that were with Garibaldi.
Italian History
Index
The Worldwide Web Virtual library. Internet resources on the
history of Italy, whether from Italy and abroad, in both Italian
and other languages.
Italy
History and politics of Italy
Diocesan Directory
RCNet. Links to dioceses and their parishes in Italy.
Parrocchie
An Italian Parish look-up. If you are looking for a comune
that starts with San or Santa, use S. before the name of the
parish.
Parrochie
(Chiesa Cattolica Italiana)
Searchable directory of parishes in Italy. You can also browse
using a map of the dioceses (Diocesi).
Antenati : Gli archivi per la ricerca anagrafica
Ancestors: archives for genealogical research. Images of documents stored in state archives, e.g. civil birth, marriage, death records. In Italian with some English.
The ARCHIVI portal
Italian Archives (in Italian). Gives addresses and websites of State "Provincial" Record Centres in Italy (Archivi di Stato). Includes details of what each "Provincial" Record Centre holds.
Comuni.it
Directory of municipal information for Italian towns, useful
for addresses of town halls.
Comuni-Italiani.it
Information, statistics and addresses of Italian comunes, provinces and regions.
Finding Italian Records
D'Addezio.com. Explains where to write to obtain copies of civic
family records and provides addresses for each Comune. You need
to write to the Comune (municipality) of the city or town from
which your ancestors came. If they came from a small town you
must write to the Comune of the city having jurisdiction over
the frazione (hamlet).
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mostly in Italian. Includes
information about historical archives of documents created in
its offices in Italy and abroad, including Kingdom of Sardinia
(London 1730-1860). Hint: try using Google to help translate.
Transcribed Vital
Records of Italian Towns
List of websites or email addresses that represent the transcription
of hundreds or thousands of records.
Italia.indettaglio.it : Italy in full details
Lists regions, provinces, towns and provides some information about them.
Mappy (Italia)
Provides street plans of Italy etc. Shows comune boundaries not
visible on Google maps.
Italy Maps
From FamilySearch. Includes Italy Under Napoleon 1812, After
Napoleon 1815, Present Day , Present-day Provinces
WHKMLA Historical Atlas : History of Italy
Historical maps of Italy
AIFHS members' interests
Surname interests of members of AIFHS
Genealogie delle
famiglie nobile Italiane
Information about researching Italian noble families. Registration
required.
Italian origin search : Find your roots : Helpful links and more
A collection of links to pages of transcribed material containing surnames. E.g. birth/baptism, marriage and death/burials; census, military lists and books.
Italy Surname Distribution Map (Gens)
Just enter your surname (cognome), find (Trova), and this will show you the spread and density of people with this surname living in Italy.
Links to Surname Websites
D'Addezio.com. This link allows you to browse the names that have been submitted directly to the site or search for
websites that feature the name that you're looking for.
Webster Signature Database
Used to be called Websters' Instrument Makers Database. A repository for
information about people who made and signed scientific instruments preserved in
collections worldwide. Includes Italian barometer makers.
Everything you want to know about Italian Given Names
Steve Russo's pages gives an introduction to Italian names, and also
separate lists for male and female given names, common and rare.
First Name Translator
D'Addezio.com. A simple program translating names between Italian
and American.
Italian Naming Traditions and their Ramifications
An extract from Lynn Nelson's book 'A Genealogist's Guide to
Discovering Your Italian Ancestors' discussing Italian naming
traditions and the ramifications of Italian first names.
Origine
dei cognomi
Origins of surnames. Written in Italian. Web archive copy of website.
CAP e Prefissi Telefonici
Postal & Telephone Codes for all the towns in Italy.
Pagine Bianche
The official white pages for Italy. You must enter a surname
(Cognome) and at least a province.
Pagine Gialle
Italian yellow pages, with the option of translating the
search page into English. Useful for locating Italian churches
and businesses.
Free Italian translations
requesting civil records from Italy
Provided by member Ruth Rowlands.
Free Translation
Includes Italian Translations.
Google language
tools
Automatic translation of portion of text or whole page. Also
searching in selected language.
The Italian documents : records extraction guide
Helps you to read old Italian handwriting for extracting parish and civil registration records. Scanned book originally published by the LDS as "Italian Records Extraction - An Instructional Guide".
Italian Language
Guide to Italian language with links to lessons, history of
the language, etc.
Italian Occupations A-Z and the English Equivalents
Italian to English
Vocabulary To help with family history documents
One page of definitions arranged alphabetically
WordReference.Com
Provides translation using Collins Dictionaries. Includes Italian.
Yahoo! Babel Fish
Translation Service. Input a URL for a web site or a block of
plain text and this site will translate for you from Italian
to English or from English to Italian.
Free Online Latin to English Translator
Translate text and web pages between Latin and English
Latin Genealogical Word List
Latin words with their English translations
Latinized Given Names
List of latinised forms of English names. This does not necessarily
include all Latin forms of Italian names but may help interpret
older church records.
AIFHS Transcriptions
Various transcribed lists of surnames. More are available to members in the Members Area of this website
Albo dei Caduti della Grande Guerra
Roll of the Fallen of the Great War.
Centro Studi "Nicolo Rusca"
Baptism records for Como. Go to Archivio Diocese then select
banca dati battesimi (on right). Once the new screen opens you
will see that at the top of the page there is a magnifying glass
..... press. You can try using Cognome (surname of child)
and below Cognome (surname) mother, godmother and godfather.
These records include the date of the parents marriage.
Cognomi italiani fra il 1800 e 1900 (Italian surnames)
A collection of links to pages of transcribed material containing
surnames. E.g. birth/baptism, marriage and death/burials; census,
military lists and books. Broader date range than implied by
the title, e.g. indexed data in one linked site includes events
in 1600s.
Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes
Archives site that includes part of France that used to be in
Italy, e.g. Nice. In box headed "Services en ligne," under "Les
archives départementales," click on Actes d'État-civil. Give
village and approximate years to access lists of people baptised,
born, married or died in those years.
Italian Ancestors
Digitised and partially indexed Italian records from Familysearch (LDS) project. Also wants volunteers.
Italian records
A database of Italian records contributed by site visitors.
Started with records from Sicily.
Thunders Of White
Silence : the Protestant Cemetery of Florence called 'The English
Cemetery'
Complete register, with photographs, of the Protestant cemetery
in Florence.
San Cataldo, Caltanissetta, Sicily
Marriage and death index for San Cataldo, Caltanissetta, Sicily.
Vizzini, Catania, Sicilia,
Italia Genealogy
A resource for people whose ancestors came from the town of
Vizzini, located in Italy.
Italy
/ Italia : Professional Researchers, Volunteers & Other Research
Services
From Cyndi's list. A list of organisations and individual researchers.
Professional
Genealogists and Genealogy Research Services for Italy
Genealogy Pro. A directory of genealogists offering research
services for Italy, some US based, others based in Italy. Good
descriptions of their specialisations. Most other countries
are also covered on this site.
Last updated 21st May 2018
