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The anagrafe is the Italian civil registry office that maintains records of residents, births, marriages, and deaths in each Italian commune (municipality). For CBD cases, the anagrafe is the primary source of the ancestor's Italian birth certificate (atto di nascita).
Each of Italy's 7,900+ communes has its own anagrafe. Some are well-organized and respond quickly to record requests; others (particularly in southern Italy and Sicily) are notoriously slow or unresponsive.
Our network of genealogists have direct working relationships with anagrafe offices across Italy, including in difficult communes like those in Sicily, Calabria, Campania, and Puglia.
Example
To prove an ancestor's Italian birth, we request their atto di nascita from the anagrafe of their commune of birth.
Related terms
An atto di nascita is an Italian birth certificate, retrieved from the anagrafe (civil registry) of the commune where the person was born.
Stato civile (civil status) refers to the Italian system of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths, maintained by the anagrafe in each commune.
A comune is an Italian municipality — the basic unit of local government. There are 7,900+ comuni in Italy, each with its own anagrafe (civil registry).
Jure sanguinis (Italian for 'right of blood') is the Italian citizenship-by-descent regime, which has no generational limit and is the most accessible CBD regime in Europe.
A 1948 case is a judicial petition for Italian citizenship filed in the civil court of Rome, available to descendants of Italian women who gave birth before January 1, 1948.
AIRE (Anagrafe degli Italiani Residenti all'Estero) is the registry of Italian citizens living abroad, maintained by each Italian consulate.