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last updated: 13/05/2020

Friulinprin

Essentially it's a database for "all" the men born in the old province of Udine (excluding some towns) from 1846 to 1900, and for the men and women that married between 1871 and 1900 in the modern province of Udine.
The database is not complete though, so if you don't find your guy and you know he must be there, don't give up.
Search Page
Map
Surname distribution by period and town



- Pordenone 
Civil (circa 1871-1910)
The province of Pordenone was created in 1968, so these have been moved from the Udine State Archives to the ones in Pordenone. When you click to view images you see "Udine" is the only choice for province (which is correct). Clicking Udine you can view various towns now under Pordenone. The collection is NOT complete, many towns missing.

- Udine 
Civil (1806-1815 and 1871-1900) -- Restricted --
Clicking on view images gives you 2 options (Pordenone and Udine), I'm not sure why they tried to divide like this, but it's incorrect, it should all be under Udine.
In fact I see duplicate towns that have a few things under Pordenone and others under Udine, so be aware of that (only for a small numbers of towns and only for the 1806-1815).
This collections has the 1806-1815 Napoleonic period for the modern provinces of Udine and Pordenone, and the 1871-1900 [not 1911] for the modern province of Udine.
It's the same collection that's on Antenati, and since it's difficult to know where to search because during the Napoleonic period the towns and their hamlets were shuffled many times, THIS CHART that is in Antenati may be helpful as it tells you which other towns to check for that period. For example if I search for Fiume on that chart I get:
Bannia vedi anche Fiume
Cimpello vedi anche Fiume
Cusano vedi Fiume
Pescincanna vedi anche Fiume
(vedi - look; anche - also, too)
so what they're telling you is that Bannia, Cimpello and Pescincanna have their own section, but also look at Fiume because probably they were hamlets of Fiume at one point (during that Napoleonic period). Cusano on the other hand is only included in Fiume.

The town of Sappada has always been a part of what we call "Friuli storico", culturally and traditionally friulan, but under the province of Belluno in Veneto. Now after a referendum and a long wait their citizens have finally been allowed to leave Veneto and come back to Friuli, under the province of Udine.
The civil records for this town can be found on Ancestry.com in the collection
Belluno, Veneto, Italy, civil registration records 1871-1939
You need a subscription to open them though, either a worldwide one if you're outside of Italy or the basic one for 9,95€ a year if you're in Italy.

- Trieste
Civil: (1924-1939)
The history of Trieste is quite tumultuous, I just want to point out that now Trieste is the smallest province in Italy, but for a period of time, after WWI and before 1947 it included many more towns. See HERE for a list of those towns and the situation before the Paris peace treaty of 1947 and what happened to them (if they became hamlets of other towns or became part of the province of Gorizia, if they were given to Slovenia, if they were renamed...).
Church: Pola e Trieste (1593-1941)
Pola (or Istria) was another province that existed between 1923 and 1947, the towns are now part of Croatia and a few of Slovenia.
The title states the registers start in 1593, but mostly they're for the XIX and XX centuries. Only a church in Pirano (Pola) has 1593-1611 marriages, while another in Isola d'Istra has marriages starting 1677. There seem to be many gaps and years missing overall.

- Gorizia [nothing]
Like Trieste, interesting history. HERE its list of towns until the peace treaty of 1947.



Udine:
Napoleonic period 1806-1815 (includes province of Pordenone)
Definitely use the Elenco delle Frazioni pdf to know where also to look. Boundaries changed a lot between 1806-1815, hamlets became temporarily towns, others were united with different towns than today, and so on.
After Italian unification circa 1871-1900



Municipal Archives

Almost every independent town should have its own historical archive, usually held somewhere in the town hall, or in the town library, or deposited in the provincial branch of the State Archive.
Here's a list of inventories (or finding aids) for some of the municipal archives in Friuli
Municipal Archives (Archivi Comunali)
But if you don't find one for the town you're looking for always remember to check the websites of the town and library, because they may be there.


(miscellanea) 

Comune di Fagagna: l'emigrazione fagagnese
The town of Fagagna (province of Udine) has helpfully put on its website a database of emigrants' names: these are people that left Fagagna between the last part of the XIX century and the 1950s.
Use the left hand column to navigate (not the embedded links, it looks like they don't work): the names are divided by destination at a continental level and within the 4 pdfs you may find a specific country and sometimes a specific town listed.

Fossalta di Portogruaro, San Zenone Parish (Venice province) - Stato delle Anime ("state of souls")
It's a list of head of households in late XIX cent., compiled by the parish priest, with birth years and page reference.
The actual register has more informations such as the other members of the family, occupation, etc
Even if it's in Veneto, it's part of the historic Friuli and also of the diocese of Concordia Pordenone, so I'm putting it here.

Polcenigo - Stato delle Anime (1812)

AMMER: Archivio Multimediale della Memoria dell'Emigrazione Regionale
Pictures, documents, stories and more about emigration and emigrants, helpfully divided by country.

1976 earthquake: victims (searchable by name, surname, age and town)

Forni di Sopra and Forni di Sotto (database)

ItalianParishRecords.org - A useful website with some links to church books Indexes

Alphabetical list of the notaries in the "Archivio Notarile Antico" (Ancient Notary Archives) XIII-XIX cent. from the State Archives in Pordenone with name, place and period + notes. 

WWI and WWII

WWI: fallen soldiers from Cormons (those who fought for the Austrian side) - read the description of the database.

WWI: fallen soldiers from San Vito al Tagliamento

Websites for WWI soldiers:
Always read the info on these pages
Here or Here

Website for WWI brigades and what they did during the war
Here

Website for WWII soldiers:
Here;
Fallen and missing of the RSI (Repubblica Sociale Italiana)
Here (please read info here first);
Another website, dimenticatidistato, has compiled lists by birth province of those who died while pow (civil or military) of the Germans after September 8th 1943 and that are buried in italian military cemeteries in Austria, Germany and Poland:
Pordenone
Udine
Trieste
Gorizia
Venice
Website for the fallen on the Eastern front (ex USSR)
HERE (please click and read the "Avvertenze" link with infos first)

IMI (Internati Militari Italiani) - Lists from the Bolzano State Archives (some pages are hard to read)
Their explanation:













Mentioned in red: guida
pagina dedicata (aka the actual lists you should look at)
pagina dedicata



This is an interactive inventory/database of all the houses of the city of Udine: who were the owners, who was renting, which activities they were used for, who bought from whom, etcetera, at different times in history (each house has a timeline). To compile this database many sources were used:
notarial deeds and wills;
citizens' requests for building permits (to modify their house) sometimes with drawings of the buildings;
registers of all the houses for military purposes (they needed to know how many troops - French in 1809 and Austrian in 1852 - could be accommodated house by house, and in doing so they created a list of the houses, their owners and how many soldiers they could take in;
shopkeepers' registers, and so on.
Interactive map of Udine (1843-1850)
You can chose a house (they're numbered according to the Napoleonic decrees) and it will take you to a specific page for all that was found on that building in the various sources.
For instance this is now part of the University of Udine.
Index to the names of persons and places mentioned (second to last, divided by initial)

Maps

In this website, 2 useful maps from the Austrian period
Second Military Survey (1806-1869)
Covers the entire Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.
Third Military Survey (1869-1887)
Has Gorizia and Trieste plus regions that aren't Italian now (that we lost after WWII).


Newspapers

Udine and Pordenone:
Periodici Friulani (from the central library in Udine)
Trieste:


Every provincial capital (and some others) has its own branch of the State Archives with collections specific to that province (and sometimes the neighbouring provinces).

UDINE
- SAN website
- SIAS website
- GGASI website
- some finding aids / inventories on-line


Books (on-line)

Italianos - Base de dados da imigração italiana no Espírito Santo nos séculos XIX e XX
Interesting book in Portugues (Brasil) that's about Italian emigrants in Brasil (Espirito Santo State) with explanation, pictures and data. Contains lists of emigrants.


Other useful links

Diocesan Archives:
 - Archivio Storico Diocesano (Arcidiocesi di Udine)
 - Archivio Storico Diocesano (Diocesi di Concordia-Pordenone)
 - Archivio Storico (Arcidiocesi di Gorizia)
 - Archivio Diocesano (Diocesi di Trieste) [scroll down]

Association Ancêtres Italiens (for those that emigrated to France)

Dizionario di Abbreviature Latine e Italiane by Adriano Cappelli (page 96 for letter A if you want to jump right into it). This lists Latin and Italian abbreviations.


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1 comment:

  1. Thank you for these links. My grandmother was from Casasola and my grandfather was from Forcella Frisanco. They spoke Friulan but the only one now that remembers some of the language is my aunt. I am researching family history from the U.S. and these links are very helpful!

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