Italy Genealogical Records
Italy Birth & Baptism Records
An index of close to 2 million records of births and baptisms, including parents' names and other details.
A small index to several-hundred-thousand records from select countries.
Italy Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to over 400,000 marriage records, including date and place of marriage and the names of the bride and groom.
An index to more than 30,000 marriage records, including personal details, names of relations and particulars of marriage.
Italy Death & Burial Records
An index to over 430,000 death and burial records, which may list the names of parents and spouses; as well as details of deaths and burials.
A searchable database of over 1 million Jewish burials with photographs of the matzevot.
Newspapers Covering Italy
An index to over 2.1 million people mentioned in Associated Press stories, including name, subject, location, date and a reference to the article.
Text-searchable copies of tens of thousands of Italian newspaper articles.
An index to around 500,000 Associated Press articles.
An index to and digital images of hundreds-of-thousands of world newspaper articles.
Italy Immigration & Travel Records
Data files relating to the immigration of Italians to the United States. Includes details such as name, date and place of immigration, gender, age, birth place, occupation, ship arrived on, port of departure, literacy, residence, intended place of habitation and other details.
An index to names, ages, occupations, native countries or towns and destinations for more than 7,000 Italian immigrants.
Italy Military Records
Administrative, strategic, and other documents relating to U.S. operations in Europe during World War II.
Details of around 120,000 European Jews saved from concentration camps and ghettos.
These officer experience reports for World War I contain correspondence, drawings, maps, plans, photographs, and reports maintained by the American Expeditionary Forces. They document activities of engineer units on the Western Front, Italy, and during the occupation of Germany.
The records of the American Section of the Supreme War Council consist of letters, reports, studies, minutes, cablegrams, charts, maps, pamphlets, and books sent to and received from American, French, British, and Italian sources.
Italy Court & Legal Records
Calendars to records relating to Britain from Venetian archives.
Calendars to records relating to Britain from Venetian archives.
Extracted records from Vatican archives relating to the British Isles.
The records of the American Section of the Supreme War Council consist of letters, reports, studies, minutes, cablegrams, charts, maps, pamphlets, and books sent to and received from American, French, British, and Italian sources.
Italy Directories & Gazetteers
A statistic and descriptive gazetteer of nations.
Useful for locating places, this searchable gazetteer gives brief details, latitude and longitude for more than 1.5 million features, places and regions throughout the world.
A directory listing manufactures in Britain, Europe and Australasia.
Italy Cemeteries
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Italy Histories & Books
Over 60 million historic photographs and documents submitted to Ancestry. This rich collection contains many rare sources of interest to local historians and will be relevant to most genealogical research.
Over 7 million remembrances and historic details submitted by Ancestry members. Useful for local historians.
Details of around 120,000 European Jews saved from concentration camps and ghettos.
Italy Occupation & Business Records
A directory listing manufactures in Britain, Europe and Australasia.
A database of cricket scores and players.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Italy
The lineages of Italian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A compilation of lineage-linked family trees submitted by Ancestry users. The database contains over 2 billion individuals and is searchable by numerous metrics.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
A collection of legacy trees submitted by Ancestry users containing nearly 400 million individuals.
Italy Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
The lineages of Italian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A growing collection of heraldic and related clip art that can be used to reconstruct a families' arms. Includes packs for British, German, Austrian, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Polish, Portuguese, French, Swiss and Dutch arms. Images are available in a variety of formats including vectors.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
Italy Maps
A free service that shows where surnames are concentrated in Italy.
An interactive index to thousands of maps covering the world, continents, countries and regions. The majority of maps cover Britain and Ireland.
Italy Reference Works
A free service that shows where surnames are concentrated in Italy.
A growing collection of heraldic and related clip art that can be used to reconstruct a families' arms. Includes packs for British, German, Austrian, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Polish, Portuguese, French, Swiss and Dutch arms. Images are available in a variety of formats including vectors.
Historical Description
Italy is a most fruitfull and goodly Region, situate under a Clime most temperate, commodious for traffick, and most fertil for Corn and Herbage. It contains in length 1020 miles, and in breadth at the broadest not above 410.
It is an Island almost in shape of a Mans Leg, being bounded on the East, with the Adriatick Sea; South and West, with the Tyrrene Seas; and North, with the Alpes.
Fertility
It aboundeth with Corn, Wine, and Oyl; yields plenty of Orangetrees, and the like fruit, as Citrons, Limmons, and Cedar-trees: and of these fruits they transport great store into foreign parts. Also they have Woods of Chesnut-trees, little esteemed amongst them, only the poor people eating some of them, and with the rest they seed their Hogs. Also they have plenty of Almond-trees, and some Pomegranates; and also the Cyprus, Poplar, and the Oake, so that you would say, the whole Province were but as one Garden.
Natures and Manners of the People
The people for the most part are honourable, courteous, prudent, and grave withal; to their superiors obedient; to equals respective; to inferiors courteous; to strangers affable, and desirous by kind offices to win their love; and in expence and love of his money very wary.
Apparel
In apparel they are modest; in furniture of house, sumptuous.
Diet
In their Diet, compared with the English or French, they are most sparing; generally they require small preparation or furniture of their table; they eat neatly and modestly; they seldome make feasts, but if they make any, they make them sumptuous, and thas much more than ours. Their greatest expences are about their Gardens, in fitting places for birding, in drawing water to them, and adorning the Conduits head with Imagery, in Chappels, and other buildings.
The usual division is into 6 parts, Lombardy, Tuscany, the Land of the Church, Naples, Genea, and the Land of Venice.
But according to the present divers Principalities that are, it is divided into
The greater, as: The Kingdome of Naples, The Papacy, The Commonwealth of Venice, The Dukedome of Florence, The Dukedome of Millain. The lesser, as: The Dukedome of Mantua, The Dukedome of Urbine, The Principality of Parma,The State of Genoa, The State of Luca.
The Kingdom of Italy, composed of 69 provinces, has a total area of 120,450 square miles and a population of over 38,500,000, exclusive of the large number of foreign tourists and residents. Of late years successful efforts have been made to develop the wine trade with this country. Our exports to Italy consist chiefly of coal, machinery, and metals, hardware, earthenware, cottons, yarns, woollens, chemicals, and all sorts of manufactured goods. In return we draw from Italy in normal times large supplies of fruits of all kinds, wines, olive-oil, vegetables, silk, hides, stones and slates, dyes, chemicals, &c. The cultivation of silk is now an important industry. The manufactures include straw hats (those of Leghorn being famous), woollen and silk and cotton goods and textile manufactures generally; various objects of art, Venetian glass, motor cars, machinery, chemical products, &c. The mineral wealth of Italy is considerable, Sicily producing sulphur in enormous quantities, while iron, copper, zinc, and manganese are also abundant. There is a continual va-et-vient of visitors, principally from England and America, and a large resident population of wealthy foreigners, with the result that goods and produce of English origin are always in demand. Imports from United Kingdom, 1929 £45,326,231. Exports to this country, £17,880,532 The most densely populated cities are Rome, the chief city (650,000), Naples (723,208), Turin (427,733), Milan (599,200), Palermo (341,656), Genoa (272,0771 Florence (232,860), Catania (211,699), Venice (160,727), Leghorn (105,322), Bari (103,522), and each of these has a floating population of rich tourists.
Most Common Surnames in Italy
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rossi | 347,288 | 1:176 | |
| 2 | Russo | 220,472 | 1:277 | |
| 3 | Ferrari | 196,529 | 1:311 | |
| 4 | Esposito | 155,359 | 1:394 | |
| 5 | Colombo | 133,381 | 1:459 | |
| 6 | Bianchi | 133,380 | 1:459 | |
| 7 | Romano | 116,971 | 1:523 | |
| 8 | Ricci | 92,667 | 1:660 | |
| 9 | Gallo | 89,904 | 1:680 | |
| 10 | Dal | 87,335 | 1:700 | |
| 11 | Bruno | 87,231 | 1:701 | |
| 12 | Greco | 85,434 | 1:716 | |
| 13 | Marino | 85,052 | 1:719 | |
| 14 | Conti | 80,842 | 1:756 | |
| 15 | Giordano | 80,486 | 1:760 | |
| 16 | Rizzo | 77,745 | 1:787 | |
| 17 | de Luca | 77,490 | 1:789 | |
| 18 | Costa | 76,312 | 1:801 | |
| 19 | Mancini | 75,932 | 1:805 | |
| 20 | Lombardi | 71,073 | 1:860 | |
| 21 | Barbieri | 68,949 | 1:887 | |
| 22 | Fontana | 67,129 | 1:911 | |
| 23 | Moretti | 66,622 | 1:918 | |
| 24 | Mariani | 63,759 | 1:959 | |
| 25 | Caruso | 62,244 | 1:983 | |
| 26 | Galli | 62,056 | 1:986 | |
| 27 | Ferrara | 60,317 | 1:1,014 | |
| 28 | Santoro | 59,253 | 1:1,032 | |
| 29 | Rinaldi | 58,114 | 1:1,052 | |
| 30 | Longo | 58,092 | 1:1,053 | |
| 31 | Villa | 57,809 | 1:1,058 | |
| 32 | Sala | 57,511 | 1:1,063 | |
| 33 | Leone | 56,858 | 1:1,076 | |
| 34 | Martini | 56,641 | 1:1,080 | |
| 35 | Dalla | 55,794 | 1:1,096 | |
| 36 | D'Angelo | 53,807 | 1:1,137 | |
| 37 | Bianco | 53,468 | 1:1,144 | |
| 38 | Martinelli | 53,366 | 1:1,146 | |
| 39 | Gatti | 52,832 | 1:1,158 | |
| 40 | Vitale | 52,000 | 1:1,176 | |
| 41 | Serra | 51,549 | 1:1,186 | |
| 42 | Coppola | 50,799 | 1:1,204 | |
| 43 | Gentile | 50,195 | 1:1,218 | |
| 44 | Cattaneo | 49,596 | 1:1,233 | |
| 45 | Ferri | 49,172 | 1:1,244 | |
| 46 | Messina | 48,779 | 1:1,254 | |
| 47 | Monti | 48,655 | 1:1,257 | |
| 48 | Marchetti | 48,458 | 1:1,262 | |
| 49 | Marini | 48,440 | 1:1,263 | |
| 50 | Fabbri | 48,220 | 1:1,268 | |
| 51 | Ferraro | 47,559 | 1:1,286 | |
| 52 | Lombardo | 46,984 | 1:1,302 | |
| 53 | Testa | 46,188 | 1:1,324 | |
| 54 | de Santis | 46,052 | 1:1,328 | |
| 55 | Grasso | 45,576 | 1:1,342 | |
| 56 | Parisi | 44,807 | 1:1,365 | |
| 57 | Amato | 44,736 | 1:1,367 | |
| 58 | de Angelis | 44,513 | 1:1,374 | |
| 59 | Pellegrini | 44,258 | 1:1,382 | |
| 60 | Riva | 43,495 | 1:1,406 | |
| 61 | Grassi | 43,140 | 1:1,418 | |
| 62 | Palumbo | 42,688 | 1:1,433 | |
| 63 | Conte | 42,066 | 1:1,454 | |
| 64 | Morelli | 41,714 | 1:1,466 | |
| 65 | Brambilla | 41,428 | 1:1,476 | |
| 66 | Sanna | 40,888 | 1:1,496 | |
| 67 | Farina | 40,792 | 1:1,499 | |
| 68 | Benedetti | 40,761 | 1:1,500 | |
| 69 | Pellegrino | 40,099 | 1:1,525 | |
| 70 | Valentini | 39,892 | 1:1,533 | |
| 71 | Rizzi | 39,808 | 1:1,536 | |
| 72 | Franco | 39,173 | 1:1,561 | |
| 73 | Caputo | 39,014 | 1:1,568 | |
| 74 | Carbone | 38,712 | 1:1,580 | |
| 75 | Fiore | 38,672 | 1:1,581 | |
| 76 | de Rosa | 38,613 | 1:1,584 | |
| 77 | Barone | 38,554 | 1:1,586 | |
| 78 | D'Amico | 38,321 | 1:1,596 | |
| 79 | Mazza | 38,144 | 1:1,603 | |
| 80 | Silvestri | 38,018 | 1:1,609 | |
| 81 | Martino | 37,889 | 1:1,614 | |
| 82 | Bernardi | 37,594 | 1:1,627 | |
| 83 | Rossetti | 37,385 | 1:1,636 | |
| 84 | Palmieri | 36,871 | 1:1,659 | |
| 85 | Giuliani | 36,474 | 1:1,677 | |
| 86 | Orlando | 36,013 | 1:1,698 | |
| 87 | Piras | 35,934 | 1:1,702 | |
| 88 | Locatelli | 35,863 | 1:1,705 | |
| 89 | Basile | 35,582 | 1:1,719 | |
| 90 | Castelli | 35,435 | 1:1,726 | |
| 91 | Pagano | 35,155 | 1:1,740 | |
| 92 | Ruggiero | 35,089 | 1:1,743 | |
| 93 | Sorrentino | 35,009 | 1:1,747 | |
| 94 | Pozzi | 34,785 | 1:1,758 | |
| 95 | Romeo | 34,357 | 1:1,780 | |
| 96 | Bellini | 34,022 | 1:1,798 | |
| 97 | Montanari | 33,985 | 1:1,800 | |
| 98 | Fumagalli | 33,974 | 1:1,800 | |
| 99 | Poli | 33,924 | 1:1,803 | |
| 100 | Rota | 33,873 | 1:1,805 | |
| 101 | Negri | 33,718 | 1:1,814 | |
| 102 | Vitali | 33,310 | 1:1,836 | |
| 103 | Ferrero | 33,287 | 1:1,837 | |
| 104 | Milani | 33,279 | 1:1,838 | |
| 105 | Costantini | 33,186 | 1:1,843 | |
| 106 | di Stefano | 33,174 | 1:1,844 | |
| 107 | Ferretti | 33,038 | 1:1,851 | |
| 108 | Battaglia | 32,770 | 1:1,866 | |
| 109 | Mantovani | 32,647 | 1:1,873 | |
| 110 | D'Agostino | 32,558 | 1:1,878 | |
| 111 | Moro | 32,356 | 1:1,890 | |
| 112 | Perrone | 32,235 | 1:1,897 | |
| 113 | Fusco | 32,020 | 1:1,910 | |
| 114 | Guerra | 31,897 | 1:1,917 | |
| 115 | Sartori | 31,706 | 1:1,929 | |
| 116 | Donati | 31,671 | 1:1,931 | |
| 117 | Basso | 31,395 | 1:1,948 | |
| 118 | Piazza | 30,806 | 1:1,985 | |
| 119 | de Simone | 30,477 | 1:2,007 | |
| 120 | Calabrese | 30,375 | 1:2,013 | |
| 121 | Molinari | 30,104 | 1:2,032 | |
| 122 | Catalano | 30,091 | 1:2,032 | |
| 123 | Pinna | 29,971 | 1:2,041 | |
| 124 | Leonardi | 29,857 | 1:2,048 | |
| 125 | Meloni | 29,773 | 1:2,054 | |
| 126 | Proietti | 29,677 | 1:2,061 | |
| 127 | Spinelli | 29,177 | 1:2,096 | |
| 128 | Ruggeri | 29,126 | 1:2,100 | |
| 129 | Zanetti | 29,090 | 1:2,102 | |
| 130 | Bruni | 28,858 | 1:2,119 | |
| 131 | Marchi | 28,584 | 1:2,140 | |
| 132 | Bassi | 28,495 | 1:2,146 | |
| 133 | Ventura | 28,218 | 1:2,167 | |
| 134 | Santini | 28,199 | 1:2,169 | |
| 135 | Olivieri | 28,189 | 1:2,170 | |
| 136 | Giorgi | 27,925 | 1:2,190 | |
| 137 | Magnani | 27,907 | 1:2,191 | |
| 138 | Melis | 27,735 | 1:2,205 | |
| 139 | Carta | 27,677 | 1:2,210 | |
| 140 | Motta | 27,666 | 1:2,211 | |
| 141 | Pace | 27,619 | 1:2,214 | |
| 142 | Grimaldi | 27,600 | 1:2,216 | |
| 143 | Marinelli | 27,355 | 1:2,236 | |
| 144 | Garofalo | 27,277 | 1:2,242 | |
| 145 | Mele | 27,206 | 1:2,248 | |
| 146 | Manca | 27,171 | 1:2,251 | |
| 147 | Aiello | 27,093 | 1:2,257 | |
| 148 | Beretta | 26,950 | 1:2,269 | |
| 149 | Monaco | 26,876 | 1:2,276 | |
| 150 | D'Ambrosio | 26,869 | 1:2,276 | |
| 151 | Cavallo | 26,835 | 1:2,279 | |
| 152 | Rosso | 26,820 | 1:2,280 | |
| 153 | Volpe | 26,723 | 1:2,289 | |
| 154 | Trevisan | 26,666 | 1:2,293 | |
| 155 | D'Alessandro | 26,544 | 1:2,304 | |
| 156 | Antonelli | 26,507 | 1:2,307 | |
| 157 | Ferro | 26,444 | 1:2,313 | |
| 158 | Maggi | 26,421 | 1:2,315 | |
| 159 | Orlandi | 26,408 | 1:2,316 | |
| 160 | Napolitano | 26,407 | 1:2,316 | |
| 161 | Guidi | 26,393 | 1:2,317 | |
| 162 | Cirillo | 26,257 | 1:2,329 | |
| 163 | Pastore | 26,232 | 1:2,331 | |
| 164 | Corti | 26,081 | 1:2,345 | |
| 165 | Pepe | 26,053 | 1:2,347 | |
| 166 | Rosa | 25,961 | 1:2,356 | |
| 167 | Ferrante | 25,798 | 1:2,371 | |
| 168 | Tosi | 25,722 | 1:2,378 | |
| 169 | Berti | 25,702 | 1:2,379 | |
| 170 | Costanzo | 25,628 | 1:2,386 | |
| 171 | Baldi | 25,477 | 1:2,400 | |
| 172 | Valenti | 25,284 | 1:2,419 | |
| 173 | Angelini | 25,157 | 1:2,431 | |
| 174 | de Marco | 25,064 | 1:2,440 | |
| 175 | Viola | 25,006 | 1:2,446 | |
| 176 | Nardi | 24,969 | 1:2,449 | |
| 177 | Arena | 24,927 | 1:2,453 | |
| 178 | Mancuso | 24,898 | 1:2,456 | |
| 179 | Leoni | 24,885 | 1:2,458 | |
| 180 | Sacco | 24,837 | 1:2,462 | |
| 181 | Grossi | 24,833 | 1:2,463 | |
| 182 | Pugliese | 24,726 | 1:2,473 | |
| 183 | Landi | 24,700 | 1:2,476 | |
| 184 | Grillo | 24,661 | 1:2,480 | |
| 185 | Agostini | 24,657 | 1:2,480 | |
| 186 | Piccolo | 24,543 | 1:2,492 | |
| 187 | Venturi | 24,453 | 1:2,501 | |
| 188 | Marchese | 24,421 | 1:2,504 | |
| 189 | Ceccarelli | 24,413 | 1:2,505 | |
| 190 | Mosca | 24,338 | 1:2,513 | |
| 191 | Stella | 24,324 | 1:2,514 | |
| 192 | Giannini | 24,314 | 1:2,515 | |
| 193 | Bartolini | 24,084 | 1:2,539 | |
| 194 | di Marco | 24,037 | 1:2,544 | |
| 195 | Gori | 23,982 | 1:2,550 | |
| 196 | Serafini | 23,942 | 1:2,554 | |
| 197 | Bernardini | 23,868 | 1:2,562 | |
| 198 | Spina | 23,790 | 1:2,571 | |
| 199 | Mauro | 23,728 | 1:2,577 | |
| 200 | Venturini | 23,714 | 1:2,579 | |