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5 eras · 1200–2026 · 549 places

Campania — Caserta and Naples

Arienzo, Arpaia, Caserta, Naples. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Where researchers lose records here

1806–1815 — Civil registration begins on the mainland in 1809 — births, marriages and deaths written by the comune on a printed form, in Italian, with the parents named and aged. Antenati has the images, free and without an account. This is the single best year in southern Italian genealogy.

Whose archive this ground was

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

Parish registers only, and only after the Council of Trent required them in 1563. They stayed with the parish and the diocesan archive; there is no civil registration to find because none was kept.
1806–1815 Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples Antenati · FamilySearch

THE GOOD NEWS. Civil registration begins on the mainland in 1809 — births, marriages and deaths written by the comune on a printed form, in Italian, with the parents named and aged. Antenati has the images, free and without an account. This is the single best year in southern Italian genealogy.
1815–1861 Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Antenati · FamilySearch

The Bourbons came back and kept the French registers. The series runs unbroken through the restoration, which is not true of everything Napoleon started.
1861–1946 Kingdom of Italy Antenati · FamilySearch
1946–2026 Italy — Provincia di Caserta Antenati

Antenati publishes to a hundred-year cut-off. Anything more recent is at the comune, and is not public.

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.

549 places on this ground

The 200 carrying the most collections are listed; 349 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.

All record regions · The map