Record Atlas
4 eras · 1200–2026 · 292 places

Calabria

Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Tropea. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Where researchers lose records here

1200–1806 — The earthquake of 1783 levelled much of Calabria Ultra and burned or buried the comune and parish archives with it — Briatico itself was destroyed and rebuilt on a new site. For a great many Calabrian towns there is simply nothing before 1783, and no archive to write to about it.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1200–1806 Kingdom of Naples FamilySearch

THE HOLE. The earthquake of 1783 levelled much of Calabria Ultra and burned or buried the comune and parish archives with it — Briatico itself was destroyed and rebuilt on a new site. For a great many Calabrian towns there is simply nothing before 1783, and no archive to write to about it.
1806–1815 Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples Antenati · FamilySearch

Civil registration from 1809, as on the rest of the mainland.
1815–1861 Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Antenati · FamilySearch
1861–2026 Italy — Provincia di Vibo Valentia Antenati · FamilySearch

The earthquakes of 1905 and 1908 took another bite out of the Calabrian registers. A gap here is more often a destroyed book than an unfilmed one.

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

See the whole span, 1200–2026, on the map →

The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.

292 places on this ground

The 200 carrying the most collections are listed; 92 more stand on this ground. Every place has them all.

258 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

Ranked with the regional ones first — a collection for a province is usually a better lead than a national index, though the national index is often where a name is actually written down. A free account opens the images.

…and 198 more.

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