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7 eras · 1200–2026 · 295 places

Sardinia

Cagliari, Sassari, Nuoro, Oristano, Alghero, Olbia. 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
1200–1324 Pisan territories, Doria and Malaspina lordships, and the Judicate of Arborea no registers survive

Before registers.
1324–1479 Crown of Aragon — Kingdom of Sardinia Archivio di Stato di Cagliari · Archivio di Stato di Sassari · FamilySearch

James II of Aragon took the Pisan territories in 1323-24. Alfonso V bought the remaining Arborean territories in 1420, ending the judicates, and the kingdom was incorporated into the Crown of Aragon in 1460.
1479–1708 Spanish crown — Kingdom of Sardinia Archivio di Stato di Cagliari · Archivio di Stato di Sassari · Archivio di Stato di Oristano · Archivio di Stato di Nuoro · FamilySearch

Parish baptism and marriage registers begin in 1563 and burials in 1614. Entries before the mid-18th century are mostly in Latin or Spanish, and Italian generally begins in the 1760s.
1708–1717 Austrian rule FamilySearch

The island became Habsburg territory in 1708, and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) assigned it to Charles VI.
1717–1720 Spanish reconquest FamilySearch

Spain reconquered the island in 1717. The Treaty of The Hague of 17 February 1720 gave it to Victor Amadeus II of Savoy in exchange for Sicily.
1720–1861 Kingdom of Sardinia (House of Savoy) Archivio di Stato di Cagliari · Archivio di Stato di Sassari · Archivio di Stato di Oristano · Archivio di Stato di Nuoro · FamilySearch

Napoleon never ruled the island, so Napoleonic civil registers do not apply to it. The Savoy court sat at Cagliari from 1798 to 1814 after the French took Piedmont, and the 'Perfect Fusion' of 1847 (some sources say 1848) centralised the Savoyard states in Turin.
1861–2026 Italy — Sardinia Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Cagliari · Archivio di Stato di Sassari · Archivio di Stato di Oristano · Archivio di Stato di Nuoro · FamilySearch

The Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed on 17 March 1861 by the Sardinian Parliament. The state civil registers held at Cagliari begin in 1866, although one genealogy site gives 1861.

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.

295 places on this ground

The 200 carrying the most collections are listed; 95 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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