I was wondering if anyone has had any luck finding if the mid 1700s census for Laurenzana in Basilicata exists? Many of the smaller surrounding towns have it ( http://www.italyworldclub.com/genealogy/catasti/catasti_basilicata.htm ) and I have viewed some of them in the Archivio di Napoli but at the ...

Thanks!

I recently obtained my Italian dual citizenship (yay!) and have my appointment to get an Italian passport in San Francisco next week. There is one question on the form I don't understand though:

Residente in: Italia or Other Country?
City of Residence in Italy
City of AIRE registration in Italy

My ...

Ah ok that makes sense, thanks!

What does corrante mean in a death record when it says something like
di (some month) anno corrante alle ore ...

Thank you,
- Will

Thanks so much, this would make sense. My Volini family (Antonia's husband) has been in Castelmezzano for a long time, and Albano di Lucania is not far from there. Fascinating!

Hello all, I found this 1850 death record and there are a couple words I need a double check on:
Is her mother's name Porfia Ciarletta? Thought that was a bit odd of a name, though she was born in 1764 so her mother's name would have been something from the early 1700s.
It says 'nata in abbano di ...

Correction, the town listed is Avellino not Pietradefusi (the family moved there later on).

I checked with a genealogist that lives in the area and he claims it is one of the church record books.

I found the document from Pietradefusi with the marriage records from one of my ancestors in 1845. It references something called 'il libro dei morti adulti che incomincia
dal 1801 a termina nel 1816 al fol. 7'. It appears to be some book recording deceased people that predates the civil records ...

Thank you very much for verifying!

This is from a death record of one of my ancestors in 1810. I'm trying to read her and her parents' professions but they don't make sense to me :(

I think her profession reads as faticatrica?
And her mother's profession is faticatori? It looks like maybe it's both of her parents' professions?

Were ...

One of my grandmother's grandmother's grandmothers was Isabella Ottaviano who was born in San Mango sul Calore (used to be called Santo Mango) around 1800. I have other Ottaviano relatives but I'm not sure where they are from and yet more relatives from the town of Ottaviano LOL. The town used to be ...

For my grandmother's 80th birthday I am tracing her name back. I discovered she was named after her grandmother Angela Borea who was named after her grandmother Angela. I am having trouble figuring out Angela's last name though, on the records it looks like 'Uua' though on the world family name ...

Yes that was my natural next step, they do have the processetti for this date and I'll be ordering it shortly. Probably better to just look at that and get the actual records than to decipher this!