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8 eras · 1200–2026 · 80 places

Umbria — Perugia, Terni, Spoleto

Perugia, Terni, Spoleto, Foligno, Assisi, Orvieto, Gubbio. 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
1200–1350 Free comuni and signorie (Perugia, Foligno, Città di Castello) no registers survive

Before registers. Local families took power in the early 14th century: the Vitelli in Città di Castello, the Baglioni in Perugia and the Trinci in Foligno.
1350–1798 Papal States Archivio di Stato di Perugia · FamilySearch

Cardinal Albornoz had brought the region under the Papal States by the middle of the 14th century, and the papacy ruled it without challenge until the end of the 18th century.
1798–1799 Roman Republic (French-backed) FamilySearch

Declared in February 1798; Neapolitan troops ended it in October 1799.
1799–1809 Papal States, restored Archivio di Stato di Perugia · FamilySearch
1809–1814 French Empire — Department of Trasimène Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Perugia · FamilySearch

The remaining Papal States were annexed to the French Empire on 17 May 1809. 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 Perugia · Archivio di Stato di Terni · FamilySearch

The Congress of Vienna restored papal rule in 1814-15, and the pope held Umbria until 1860. Civil registration was dropped after the French and resumed with the Italian state in 1866, so these decades rest on parish registers.
1860–1923 Italy — Province of Perugia Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Perugia · Archivio di Stato di Terni · FamilySearch

Piedmont annexed Umbria, with the Marche, in 1860, and the region joined the Kingdom of Italy in 1861.
1923–2026 Italy — Provinces of Perugia and Terni Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Perugia · Archivio di Stato di Terni · FamilySearch

Rieti was detached from Umbria and added to Lazio in 1923, and Umbria was divided into the provinces of Perugia and Terni in 1927.

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.

80 places on this ground

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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