The Richeys

There is no set rule that has been followed for records storage over the years in Italy.  Records are kept in many different places.  In addition to the resources listed below, many records have also been kept in churches.  The Italy Catholic Church Records collection by FamilySearch.org can be of great help.

• Palermo Marriage Records: 1820 — 1885
• Palermo Birth Records: 1896 — 1905
• Palermo Records by Family Name
• Requesting Civil Records from Palermo
• Maps of Palermo
• Media

Palermo Marriage Records: 1820 — 1885

The records below are in Google Docs Spreadsheet format and were created from files originally compiled by Hugh Tornabene. The same information is also available on his site in text and XLS format.

Palermo Marriages	1820 — 1835
Palermo Marriages	1836 — 1845
Palermo Marriages	1846 — 1855
Palermo Marriages	1856 — 1865
Palermo Marriages	1866 — 1875
Palermo Marriages	1876 — 1885
Palermo Marriages	1886 — 1895

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Palermo Birth Records: 1896 — 1905

Palermo birth records are available on Hugh Tornabene’s website.
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Palermo Records by Family Name

I have started a project of reorganizing the information that Hugh Tornabene has found and indexing it by family name. These files will include both the births and marriages for a particular family name for all mentioned years. The first family name I’ve completed is Scaglione.

Scaglione

Births 1896 – 1905 & Marriages 1820 – 1885

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Requesting Civil Records from Palermo

According to Provincia di Palermo Sicily on RootsWeb, “Most Italian records reside in one of two places, the local Ufficio di Stato Civile and the provincial Archivio di Stato. Other records are also found in the Ufficio di Anagrafe and the local Catholic church parishes.”

Ufficio di Anagrafe (Registry Office) Comune di Palermo 90144 Palermo PA ITALY Tel. 091.7405200, Fax. 091.7405524 Website | Translated to English

Archivio di Stato di Palermo (State Archives of Palermo) Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 31 90133 Palermo PA ITALY Tel. 091.2510628, Fax. 091.5080681 Website | Translated to English

You can use the Italian Form Letter Generator from Circolo Calabrese to order these records. It will use the information you enter to generate a letter in Italian in the necessary format.  They also offer tools for follow-up letters.
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Maps of Palermo

• Mapsof.net – Historical Map of Palermo (Interactive) #1
• Mapsof.net – Historical Map of Palermo (Interactive) #2

Media

Palermo, Sicily

Palermo, Sicily — 1800′s

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