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3 eras · 1087–2026 · 8 places

Central Sicily — Enna (Castrogiovanni)

Enna, Piazza Armerina, Leonforte. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1087–1861 Kingdom of Sicily, later the Two Sicilies Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Enna · FamilySearch

The Normans took Enna in 1087, and the town was called Castrogiovanni until it was renamed Enna in 1926 or 1927 depending on the passage. Sicilian civil registers date from 1820.
1861–1927 Kingdom of Italy — Castrogiovanni Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Enna

The town appears in records as Castrogiovanni in this period.
1927–2026 Italy — Enna Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Enna

Mussolini ordered the renaming to Enna in 1927 (1926 depending on the source).

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.

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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.

8 places on this ground

258 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

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