JJ313 wrote:Under Law number 470 of 27 October, 1988, Italian citizens who depart and remain outside the territory for a continuous period of 12 months or more are required, within 90 days from the date of departure from Italian territory, to register with the Italian Consular Office that has jurisdiction over their residence.
A delayed birth certificate upon issuance by the agency duly appointed in a jurisdiction to issue such records IS an official record of birth.
Thanks for this information and especially your non bitchy tone
Either way, my GGF emigrated to Argentina in 1897/1898, I am looking for the birth certificate of his son(Hugo Luis, born in 1918 in Capital Federal)
So unless he registered his son at the consulate I don't think there was any record of my GF at the consulate. My GGF(Giovanni/Juan Russo, born 1883 in Goia Tauro) was unmarried at the time his son Hugo Luis was born so that might have complicated things. Hugo Luis did however get the last name of his father, which is Russo.
Does anybody know how marriage was seen at the time and how it could complicate the registery of children?
Some more information. The marriage certificate of Hugo Luis Russo says he was born in 1918 in Capital Federal, but no further information was given. I also have his marriage certifcate but when I started to look for the document number of the bautism the church could not find a record(unfortunatly 2 different churches, marriage cuidad Evita and bautism in Palermo, Capital federal)
I think the reason there isn't a bautism act must be because the father and mother were unmarried(due to the mum not having idenity papers because she was born/from a orphanage) at the time of the bautism, so that might be the reason.
I think it's also possible that he was never officially bautised and only 'recognized'(don't know how to say it but the church could give you some kind of bautism as an adult) and that's the reason why there are no records.