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Comes out as a sheet for the reading room — what to ask for, who holds it, and every link written out in full.
This place
Where to begin
You know your family came from Ligonchio. Here is the order I would work in, cheapest and easiest first — and what to do when that runs out.
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When you run out — and you will
Everything above is what this atlas knows. It is not everything there is. Nine places in ten on this map have never been surveyed by anybody, so a gap here is usually our silence rather than the record's absence.
Do this: write to the archive named in the era table for your year, even if we hold nothing for it. Then tell us what you found — a gap somebody has personally closed is the most useful thing a stranger can give this map.
Not yet mapped. The record regions cover Istria, the Kvarner, Carnia and Dalmatia so far, and Ligonchio is outside them. That is a gap in this map rather than a gap in the record — and the most useful thing anyone could fill in.
No volumes recorded here yet.
The ground worth walking
Within 13 km — 10 places. These neighbours hold 200 catalogued volumes between them.
A register belongs to a parish, not to a village. A hamlet with no church of its own was written into the book of the church it walked to — and that book is catalogued under the other place's name. This is the ground to search before concluding a record does not exist.
- Collagna6.4 km200 volumes
Correctly placed and unread. A gap here is this atlas's silence, not the record's — the registers may well exist and nobody has walked them.
National sources for Italy, unverified
From Wikidata, CC0 — the national archive and the national library where the country has one. Nobody here has opened these. The link answered when it was asked and that is the whole of what this map knows about them. They are listed because a country with no named source at all is the worse answer: 199 of the 237 countries here had nothing but the worldwide services, which cover everywhere and therefore say nothing about anywhere.
- Archivio centrale dello Stato ↗ national archive did not answer this checker
- Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma ↗ national library did not answer this checker
- Biblioteca nazionale Braidense ↗ national library
- Italian National Libraries ↗ national library
- National Central Library of Florence ↗ national library
The sources for Italy
National and regional sources that cover this ground whether or not anybody has walked it here — which makes them the answer, not the consolation, for a place with no volumes recorded on it. A country-wide body is listed whatever the distance; a provincial archive is a claim over its own province, so those are the nearest ones. 119 more cover Italy and are on the country page.
- Antenati Images, free, no account Rome, Italy
The Italian state archives' own portal. Civil registration images from 1806, free and without an account — the best national genealogy portal in Europe. - OpenStarts (Università di Trieste) Nobody has walked this one yet
The University of Trieste's open repository. Worked by the Defranceski archive, which OCR'd and read the 1869 «Guida schematica di Trieste» — a city directory, which names householders street by street in years no register covers. Not yet surveyed. - ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online Images, free, no account Vienna, Austria
The Austrian National Library's digitised newspaper run. Full-text searchable, and it covers the whole empire — which is why it finds Croatian and Istrian names. - IstriaNet Nobody has walked this one yet
A volunteer-built reference on Istria — history, bibliography and the AMSI series index. Worked by the Defranceski archive for the bibliography of Camillo De Franceschi's writings. A guide to where the scholarship is, not a register. Not yet surveyed. - GenTeam.at Images, free, account needed Vienna, Austria
Volunteer indexes to the Habsburg lands — Vienna's parish registers, Jewish records, school and guild lists. Free with an account, and it reaches ground the church portals do not. - Geneanet Partly free, partly paid
Member-contributed trees and transcriptions, strongest in France. Much is free; a Premium tier gates some search and images. - Archivio di Stato di Massa — sezione di pontremoli Images, free, no account Pontremoli, Italy — 37 km
The state archive of Pontremoli, publishing civil registration images through Antenati — free, and without an account. Its own page states how far the digitisation has got and which years it covers; those differ archive by archive. - Archivio di Stato di La Spezia Images, free, no account La Spezia, Italy — 48 km
The state archive of La Spezia, publishing civil registration images through Antenati — free, and without an account. Its own page states how far the digitisation has got and which years it covers; those differ archive by archive. - Archivio di Stato di Reggio Emilia Images, free, no account Reggio Emilia, Italy — 48 km
The state archive of Reggio Emilia, publishing civil registration images through Antenati — free, and without an account. Its own page states how far the digitisation has got and which years it covers; those differ archive by archive. - Archivio di Stato di Parma Images, free, no account Parma, Italy — 54 km
The state archive of Parma, publishing civil registration images through Antenati — free, and without an account. Its own page states how far the digitisation has got and which years it covers; those differ archive by archive.
Sources that cover everywhere
Not about Italy in particular — these reach most of the world, which includes here. They are listed after the local sources because a body that holds this ground's own paper is a better first stop than one that holds a little of everywhere's. Worth knowing they exist all the same.
- Internet Archive Images, free, no account
Full-text search across millions of digitised books, including parish histories, nobiliaries and local monographs that name ordinary people. - Arolsen Archives Images, free, no account
The former International Tracing Service. Concentration camp, forced labour and displaced-persons records for some seventeen and a half million people, free and fully indexed. - BillionGraves Images, free, no account
GPS-tagged headstone photographs. Smaller than Find a Grave but its coordinates are per-stone, which Find a Grave's often are not. - Find a Grave Images, free, no account
Volunteer-photographed headstones and cemetery indexes, worldwide, with very uneven coverage. Owned by Ancestry but free to read. - WikiTree Images, free, no account
A free, single shared tree with an unusually strong sourcing culture. Not a record source. - Yad Vashem — Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names Images, free, no account
Names and testimony pages for victims of the Shoah, free. - FamilySearch Images, free, account needed
The largest free collection of record images and indexes in the world. A free account is required, and a minority of images are restricted to Family History Centres and affiliate libraries. - Geni Images, free, account needed
One shared world tree. Useful for finding other researchers on the same line; not a record source, and its assertions are only as good as their citations. - JewishGen Images, free, account needed
The central Jewish genealogy resource — town-level KehilaLinks, burial and Holocaust databases, and revision lists for eastern Europe. - Geneanet Partly free, partly paid
Member-contributed trees and transcriptions, strongest in France. Much is free; a Premium tier gates some search and images. - Ancestry Images, behind a paywall
The largest commercial collection. Strong on the English-speaking world, censuses and immigration; weak on continental parish registers. - MyHeritage Images, behind a paywall
Commercial, with a large tree network and good European newspaper and directory coverage. Search is free; opening a record is not.
FamilySearch collections that reach here
A collection is a claim over an area, not a book standing in this town — so these are ranked by how specifically they reach Ligonchio. A free account is needed to open the images, and some are restricted to a Family History Centre.
Worth searching, and worth knowing it is a national index rather than a local one.
- Italy, Torino, Torino, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1899 ↗ 1866–1899 3,679,588 records 207 km
- Italy, Torino, Diocese of Torino, Catholic Church Records, 1801-1899 ↗ 1801–1899 2,579,536 records 207 km
- Italy, Trento, Diocesi di Trento, Catholic Church Records, 1548-1937 ↗ 1547–1937 1,982,368 records 207 km
- Italy, Genova, Genova, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 ↗ 1866–1929 1,803,065 records 207 km
- Italy, Padova, Padova, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1871-1929 ↗ 1871–1929 1,442,646 records 207 km
- Italy, Enna, Diocese of Nicosia, Catholic Church Records, 1535-1929 ↗ 1535–1929 1,324,863 records 207 km
- Italy, Caserta, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 ↗ 1866–1929 1,302,094 records 207 km
- Italy, Como, Como, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 ↗ 1866–1929 1,225,820 records 207 km
- Italy, Milano, Milano, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 ↗ 1866–1929 1,202,033 records 207 km
- Italy, Salerno, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1806-1949 ↗ 1806–1949 1,201,430 records 207 km
- Italy, Napoli, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1866 ↗ 1809–1866 1,178,892 records 207 km
- Italy, Venezia, Venezia, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1871-1930 ↗ 1871–1930 1,177,702 records 207 km
- Italy, Catania, Arcidiocesi di Catania, Catholic Church Records, 1515-1941 ↗ 1514–1941 1,170,811 records 207 km
- Italy, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Catholic Church Records, 1531-1998 ↗ 1530–1998 1,050,963 records 207 km
- Italy, Ancona, Ancona, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1862-1929 ↗ 1862–1929 1,029,480 records 207 km
- Italy, Bologna, Bologna, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1943 ↗ 1866–1943 987,872 records 207 km
- Italy, Messina, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1820-1865 ↗ 1820–1865 940,311 records 207 km
- Italy, Ivrea Diocesi di Ivrea, Catholic Church Records, 1474-1950 ↗ 1474–1929 939,251 records 207 km
- Italy, Diocesi di Piazza Armerina, Catholic Church Records, 1553-1964 ↗ 1553–1964 841,047 records 207 km
- Italy, Rovigo, Rovigo, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1871-1937 ↗ 1871–1937 826,900 records 207 km
- Italy, Roma, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1863-1930 ↗ 1863–1930 825,269 records 207 km
- Italy, Catania, Catania, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 ↗ 1866–1929 824,250 records 207 km
- Italy, Catania, Diocesi di Caltagirone, Catholic Church Records, 1502-1942 ↗ 1501–1942 811,350 records 207 km
- Italy, Mantova, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1496-1906 ↗ 1495–1906 802,442 records 207 km
- Italy, Ravenna, Ravenna, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1943 ↗ 1866–1943 764,496 records 207 km
…and 35 more.
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