Records in Naples

[tomtst]

I will be in Naples in September and would like to spend a little time looking for birth / death records. I know my Squeglia family is from Naples. Does someone know the address of where I could search these records?

I also know my great uncle did wood carvings for at least one church in Naples I have no idea of even where to start to find the church. This part is a long shot but I thought I would throw this out there anyway.

Tom

[erudita74]

Tom,
Here’s some info I got back in 2010 from a native Italian who had done some genealogy research at the town hall in Naples. I honestly don’t know if his comments currently apply.
Erudita

“There I must present an official request to a Judge of the Court of Napoli, explaining in detail my historical study, the reason of the search, the names of the persons I was searching. Then I received an authorization, which limited me in the time (from the day – to the day) and hours (only in the morning) of access to the Central Registry Office of the Napoli Town Hall. When I started the search, the responsible person was with me for a few minutes: he had other work (or a long coffee break?) so I was alone, taking by myself the registers and working in complete relax. But this is Napoli. The same is for the search in the parish register: in this case the request is for the Bishop Office. Over the official authorization, I think it is important to underline the ability to conduct a search in the old registers. A difficulty came from the ancient writing, but there are often some mistakes (dates, names) or persons with the same name that can conduct our search in a wrong way. So the searcher must be fit to draw the genealogy tree with many various variations, and to annotate also the minimum information that at the moment may appear unnecessary."

[tomtst]

Thank You

Tom

[erudita74]

You're very welcome, Tom
Erudita

[Italysearcher]

Things have changed since 2010.
Parish records are at the discretion of the priest who holds the records. The Bishop says no-one can see the records due to privacy (??) but when I was there 2 years ago, one priest let me search, the other did not.
Civil records are held at the town hall in the municipality (there are 12) State Archives are iffy since they are in the process of digitizing the records.
You might want to contact Joe De Simone (see panel to the left). He is American and searches regularly in Naples.
There are tips on my website on Preparing for a trip to the town of origin.

[tomtst]

"It Portale Antenati" has records from Napoli but they go up to 1865 and of course my great grandfather was born in 1868. It is also broken down into 12 communes, which dosen't make it easier when you don't know where in Naples they were from. I will try when I am there, hopefully I will find someone willing to help.

Thank you for the suggestions
Tom

[Italysearcher]

Don't count on gettting help in the Comune office with this problem. You need to do the research first. If you know the date of death (you MUST know the date) you could check with the cemetery. They have records but are filed by death date only and not cross-referenced.
You might try writing to the Diocese and asking about the carving but again you need to know the carvers name and appox date of birth/death.

[Italysearcher]

You could also check with the Italian white pages www.paginebianche.it to see if the surname is congregated in one part of Naples. Then get a map of the municipalities to see which ones you should search.

[TerraLavoro]

"It Portale Antenati" has records from Napoli but they go up to 1865 and of course my great grandfather was born in 1868. It is also broken down into 12 communes, which dosen't make it easier when you don't know where in Naples they were from. I will try when I am there, hopefully I will find someone willing to help.

Thank you for the suggestions
Tom

Sorry if this seems obvious, but the Naples records at the Antenati site are indexed, so you could try searching the last name only...maybe you would find the last name predominant in one or two of the comunes, helping to narrow your search. If you get lucky and find say a marriage record of his parents, just click on "apri" and the link will take you directly to that record. Here is the link to the search function that I am describing:

http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.i ... arch]=name

[TerraLavoro]

So I just took my own advice, and there are 48 records spread over 2 pages. Mostly in San Giuseppe, but some in Montecalvario and Porto Napoli.

[TerraLavoro]

So I just took my own advice, and there are 48 records spread over 2 pages. Mostly in San Giuseppe, but some in Montecalvario and Porto Napoli.

Give it a try. Good luck.

[TerraLavoro]

And here a link that describes the 12 historic "quartieri di Napoli".

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartieri_di_Napoli

[Italysearcher]

I don't believe they have finished indexing Naples yet. Still it's better than nothing when you are grasping at straws.

[Sunnydays]

Reactivating this thread to see if anything has changed. I am looking for death records from Naples in the 1930s. I have no specific dates but I have the section of Naples. Is there a process I can follow to access the records from the Anagrafe so I can research them myself? Are the records only in the municipio or does the courthouse have them too? This would be after COVID restrictions of course.

[PippoM]

Records of the 1930's for the province of Naples are not available online, nor at Archivio di Stato.
So, if you know the exact date, you might request them from the Town Office.
I've heard that, as a lot of records for the province of Naples are missing, FS is digitizing registers from the Town Offices within the scope of Antenati project. But I don't know if for the City of Naples itself, nor when this will be done.