Italysearcher wrote: 18 Dec 2021, 10:39
Marriage processetti for those years are usually help in the Diocese archives, if they exist. Often the ones sent to the Diocese were just those where the couple were from different towns or parishes or were of the classes.
Whoever you hire you need to be aware that the results may be negative. In the Province of Frosinone they are very rare.
Hi Ann! Thanks so much for your response, I appreciate it! Yes, that's good advice, I do realize that unfortunately there's a chance the results could be negative. One thing that might be to my advantage is that the couples would all be from different towns!
To explain - I'm trying to track my paternal ancestry further back. I'm "stuck" at the moment. My 6th-Great-Grandfather, Andrea, was born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere in Caserta in 1679, but he relocated to Troia, Puglia and was married there in 1701. I recently obtained photos of both his baptism record from 1679 and his marriage processetto from 1701.
His Baptism record states that his father and mother were born in Naples. Since I want to trace his father's lineage further back, I figured I could look for his parent's marriage record in the Diocesan Archive of Naples. An incredibly helpful member of this group went to the Diocesan Archives in Naples to search for his parent's marriage record! We searched through several years of marriage processetto but did not find it yet. We may look more in the future, but for now we thought it best to look in Orta Nova.
This is because Andrea's marriage record states that he lived in Orta Nova from 1684 to 1697. Andrea would have moved to Orta Nova when he was 5 years old, so clearly he moved with his parents and probably some siblings. While we know that Andrea moved from Orta Nova to Troia, I'm hoping that he had some siblings who stayed put in Orta Nova and got married there (perhaps he even had older siblings who got married in Orta Nova shortly after they moved there in 1684). I'm hoping their marriage processetto will have some clues (perhaps some information on precisely where Andrea's parents were born in Naples... maybe even death records for his parents, which could contain the name of Andrea's grandparents).
Unfortunately, Andrea's marriage processetto did not contain any useful information about his parents... and also unfortunately, there are no marriage records or death records for any of Andrea's siblings in Troia (Andrea appears to be the only member of his family who moved to Troia).
Anyway, that's my background story! I contacted a few genealogists about researching Orta Nova for me, but haven't heard back from them yet - hence why I thought I'd ask for some recommendations here! Thanks again for the help Ann! I hope you are doing great!
