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6 eras · 1200–2026 · 209 places

Southern Tuscany — Siena, Grosseto and the Maremma

Siena, Grosseto, Montepulciano, Orbetello, Piombino, Elba. 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
1200–1555 Republic of Siena no registers survive

Before registers. Cosimo I de' Medici conquered the Republic of Siena in 1555.
1555–1801 Duchy and Grand Duchy of Tuscany; the Presidi coast held separately Archivio di Stato di Siena · Archivio di Stato di Grosseto · FamilySearch

Spain kept the former Sienese coastal fortresses of Porto Ercole, Orbetello and Talamone, with Porto Longone on Elba, as the State of the Presidi from 1557. It was Spanish to 1707, Austrian from 1708, and from the Treaty of Vienna of 1738 a dependency of the Kingdom of Naples, so those towns were not Tuscan before 1801.
1801–1808 Kingdom of Etruria (the Presidi included) Archivio di Stato di Siena · Archivio di Stato di Grosseto · FamilySearch

Naples ceded the Presidi to France in 1801, and France handed them to the new Kingdom of Etruria.
1808–1814 French Empire — the Departments of Tuscany Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Siena · Archivio di Stato di Grosseto · FamilySearch

Antenati lists the Napoleonic civil registers for Tuscany as 1808-1814.
1814–1860 Grand Duchy of Tuscany restored, with the Presidi and Piombino Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Siena · Archivio di Stato di Grosseto · FamilySearch

The Congress of Vienna gave the restored grand duchy the State of the Presidi and the Principality of Piombino. Tuscany was annexed to Sardinia on 22 March 1860.
1860–2026 Italy — Provinces of Siena and Grosseto Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Siena · Archivio di Stato di Grosseto · FamilySearch

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.

209 places on this ground

The 200 carrying the most collections are listed; 9 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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