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Nati is birth acts - a record of the birth that will give you the time and location of the birth (often but not always there is an address of birth which will give you the address they lived at), the father's name, age and profession, the mother's name age and profession and often it will give you their parent's names. So in 1 record you receive 3 generations of information!
notificazioni is a marriage bann. This also gives a lot of information. These are my favorite documents! Because the all the men who could sign their name signed this document.
matrimoni A record that the marriage took place. If you have to choose between the pubblicazione and the atti di matrimoni choose the pubblicazione
morti death act record - a record that the death occurred (not a death certificate). Although this will not give you the cause of death it will give you the date, time, place, birthplace, mother's name, father's name and wife's name.
processetti This is a hodge podge of various records - could be church records, comune records, deeds that pertain to individual or the comune (town). You will need a book to help you. I used one by Lynne Nelson (I cannot remember the name.
I have attempted to post my grandfather's "Atti di nascita" (Act of birth) to give you an idea of what they look like but it's not working so click here:
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t300 ... father.jpg If you want to see more of these records PM me.
You go to the family history center and order the microfilms. It takes 2-4 weeks to get them at $5.50 per microfilm. I have extracted thousands of records from these and currently have 10 microfilms so if you need help (and you will) let me know. It's rather intimidating at first but it's not difficult.
If you need more help feel free to ask.
