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7 eras · 1200–2026 · 264 places

The Marche — Ancona, Urbino, Macerata, Ascoli

Ancona, Pesaro, Urbino, Macerata, Fermo, Ascoli Piceno. 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
1200–1631 Marches of Ancona, Camerino and Fermo; Duchy of Urbino FamilySearch

Nominally Papal, but local lords (among them the Malatesta of Rimini and the Montefeltro of Urbino) and free communes held most of the land, and Ancona was a maritime republic in the 12th century. The Duchy of Urbino was dissolved in 1631.
1631–1797 Papal States — the Marche Archivio di Stato di Ancona · Archivio di Stato di Macerata · Archivio di Stato di Pesaro Urbino · Archivio di Stato di Ascoli Piceno · FamilySearch

From 1631 the Marche was firmly part of the Papal States.
1797–1799 Republic of Ancona (1797-98), then the Roman Republic (1798-99) FamilySearch

The Roman Republic was declared in February 1798 and ended in October 1799 when Neapolitan troops restored papal rule.
1799–1808 Papal States, restored Archivio di Stato di Ancona · Archivio di Stato di Macerata · FamilySearch
1808–1814 Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Ancona · Archivio di Stato di Macerata · Archivio di Stato di Pesaro Urbino · FamilySearch

Napoleon annexed the Marches (Urbino, Ancona, Macerata, Camerino) to the Kingdom of Italy on 2 April 1808. FamilySearch dates the Napoleonic civil registers of the former Papal States to 1810-1815; other summaries give 1810-1814.
1814–1860 Papal States, restored Archivio di Stato di Ancona · Archivio di Stato di Macerata · Archivio di Stato di Pesaro Urbino · Archivio di Stato di Ascoli Piceno · Archivio di Stato di Fermo · FamilySearch

Joachim Murat briefly occupied the region in 1815. Civil registration was dropped after the French and resumed with the Italian state in 1866, so these decades rest on parish registers.
1860–2026 Italy — the Marche Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Ancona · Archivio di Stato di Macerata · Archivio di Stato di Pesaro Urbino · Archivio di Stato di Ascoli Piceno · Archivio di Stato di Fermo · FamilySearch

The Marche was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy by plebiscite on 4 November 1860. Seven Montefeltro municipalities moved from the Province of Pesaro and Urbino to the Province of Rimini, in Emilia-Romagna, on 15 August 2009.

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.

264 places on this ground

The 200 carrying the most collections are listed; 64 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.

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