Source Information
About Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy, Indexed Death Records, 1896-1936
This database contains indexed death records for comuni (towns) in the northern Italian region of Piedmont from 1896-1936 that were under the jurisdiction of the Verbania Tribunale in the provinces of Novara and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. A list of all the towns included can be seen in the browse table below. Some of these towns encompass frazioni (hamlets) and comuni soppressi (historical or extinct localities).
The keeping of vital records for the unified Kingdom of Italy started in 1866. In the southern part of the country, formerly under the Kingdom of The Two Sicilies, it started in 1809 with the exception of Sicily in 1820.
These indexed death records contain:
- Name of deceased
- Death date
- Date of record
- Names of parents
- Place of death
- Age
- Birth year
- Birthplace
- Record number
Images may contain other information such as the name of the person recording the death, profeession of the deceased and parents, name of spouse (if married), indication of a deceased parent, and names of witnesses.
This collection only contains images that have been indexed, the full, unindexed collection of images and records can be found in the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy, Civil Registration Records, 1870-1937. The Civil Registration Records include birth, marriage, marriage banns, death, citizenship records and allegati (supplemental records).
Reading the Records:
Depending on the year, these records are either free-form hand written paragraphs or pre-printed forms with hand-written information entered into fields. Records from earlier years are of the hand written paragraph type, while records from more recent years contain the pre-printed forms.
Each record is assigned a record number that is unique to that year. This record number is written (either numerically or spelled out) in the margin. The primary person’s (or people’s) names are usually written below this. This makes searching for a particular person page by page fairly easy.
Sometimes there will be marginal notes written on a record. These marginal notes generally contain other vital information for the individual that the record is about. For example, on a person’s death record you may see information written in the margin regarding that person’s marriage and/or birth.