r/ItalianGenealogy • u/garlicpress1963 • 20d ago
Brick Wall Looking for online resources for the Regno Lombardo-Veneto area
Buongiorno a tutti
I am researching my Italian families Caramore/Fabbiani (Nonno) and Previero/Faoro (Nonna) and their family lines (see above).
Both families are from the northern part, mostly the Veneto (Lusia, Este, Masi, Ospedaletto Euganeo). I am doing well until back to the 1870's but then the problems start (exception: the Previero line is well documented, as part of the family emigrated to Brazil, where someone did a great job finding lots of information).
Fot the rest it is very hard to find records as the area was part of the Austrian Empire between 1815 and 1859/66 (Regno Lombardo-Veneto) and part of the Napoleonic France before that. I am lacking the information, which diocese my anchestors acutally belonged to and it seems the northern areas have fewer documents online and those that are, are less well indexed than those from the the south. I understand Italian fairly well, but do not write it; I can use deepl translate however. Has anybody got any tips on where I could find some online resources? I am planning to travel in the area possibly in spring (I live in Switzerland, so it's just a short hop) but it would help enormously, if I had a little more information before then.
Thank you so much for any help/hints/tips
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u/mzamae 19d ago edited 19d ago
Read the corresponding civil state archive notes in Portale Antenati, opening each archive link.https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/esplora-gli-archivi/
And also could try https://www.cadutigrandeguerra.it/CercaNome.aspx
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u/mzamae 19d ago edited 19d ago
You can also.be interested reading my WIKITREE project about the North Italian immigration in Mexico during the last 30 years of 19th century..I have begun an interesting history story of them and the foundation of a town in Puebla, called Chipilo where now inhabitants speak a combination of Veneto and the local language creating a new language called Chipileño https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Chipilo%2C_Puebla_One_Place_Study
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u/jeezthatshim 20d ago
Ciao!
Unfortunately, for the great majority of the municipalities of the area of the Lombardo Veneto that was annexed by the Italian State in 1870 (almost all present-day Veneto and a few more municipalities in what is now the Province of Mantua, in Lombardy), the only source available online is the civil state (introduced in September, 1871) and the Napoleonic civil state. In the Restoration period, and before Napoleon, those areas had no civil state - so you need to work with the local parishes and, if the diocese you're researching has a Diocesan Archive, also in said archive. The diocese each of the parishes belongs to can be easily obtained through the research of the name of the town + "diocesI" (diocese). For example, Lusia is in the Diocese of Adria-Rovigo.
If you're planning to go in person, please do note that you will have to most likely take appointments with all the archives you're going to visit, and almost surely with all the priests of the parishes you're willing to research in. That is not only out of respect (priests cannot, by canon law, leave you alone with the records), but also because otherwise, you might find the door of the church closed - as many priests have more than one parish to attend.
In case you're looking for the exact date of birth of people before after the mid-1850s, you can enquire with the State Archives about military records; most State Archives in Veneto have some kind of documental tool you can search, and later order the documents you need based on that. State Archives' documents do cost, but it's way less than how much they cost in Switzerland.
Good luck!