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6 eras · 1200–2026 · 781 places

Northern Tuscany — Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Arezzo

Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, Pistoia, Prato, Arezzo. 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
1200–1532 Republic of Florence no registers survive

Before registers. The Florentine Republic fell after the siege of 1529-30; Charles V made the Medici hereditary rulers on 12 August 1530.
1532–1801 Duchy of Florence, from 1569 the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Habsburg-Lorraine from 1737) Archivio di Stato di Firenze · FamilySearch

A constitution of 27 April 1532 created the hereditary duchy, and Pius V made Cosimo I Grand Duke on 27 August 1569. Parish baptism and marriage registers begin in 1563 and burials in 1614. Lucca was a separate state throughout, as the Republic of Lucca, and was not absorbed by Tuscany until 1847.
1801–1808 Kingdom of Etruria (Bourbon-Parma) Archivio di Stato di Firenze · FamilySearch

The Treaty of Aranjuez of 21 March 1801 replaced the grand duchy with the Kingdom of Etruria, which was annexed to France on 30 May 1808.
1808–1814 French Empire — the Departments of Tuscany Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Firenze · FamilySearch

Elisa Bonaparte headed a General Government of the Departments of Tuscany from March 1809. Antenati lists the Napoleonic civil registers for Tuscany as 1808-1814.
1814–1860 Grand Duchy of Tuscany restored; Duchy of Lucca (Bourbon-Parma) 1815-1847 Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Firenze · Archivio di Stato di Lucca · FamilySearch

The Congress of Vienna made Lucca a separate duchy, which Leopold II absorbed in October 1847. A provisional government took over in 1859, and Tuscany was annexed to Sardinia on 22 March 1860 after a referendum. Antenati lists the Tuscan pre-unification civil series as 1815-1865.
1860–2026 Italy — Tuscany Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Firenze · Archivio di Stato di Pisa · Archivio di Stato di Lucca · Archivio di Stato di Livorno · Archivio di Stato di Arezzo · FamilySearch

Italian state civil registration is dated 1866 by FamilySearch, while Antenati's Tuscan listing dates the Italian series from 1860, so the start year depends on the comune.

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.

781 places on this ground

The 200 carrying the most collections are listed; 581 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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