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Genealogy Research in Southern Italy



The lists of surnames will help to find the correct spelling of the surname and have an idea of its distribution in nearby areas. In searching for the Italian comune, remember that some provinces changed during the 20th century, and new ones were created: the province of Pescara was formed in the 1920's, and previously its municipalities were included in the Provinces of Chieti, Teramo or L'Aquila.

MOLISE was until the 1960's part of the region called at the time "Abruzzi e Molise". Then it became a separate region, and a decade later another province, Isernia, was created, including roughly the municipalities in the west of the region, so all the places in the region of Molise were formerly in the province of Campobasso. Other provinces also were established in their present structure at different times in the course of the 20th century, such as Latina, Frosinone and Rieti in Lazio, or Vibo Valenzia in Calabria.

Lists of surnames for very large municipalities (over 3,000 inhabitants) are not available. The source of the lists is the telephone directories of the early 1990's.

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