nuccia wrote: |
Ada, thanks! I learned a lot. Now I have a question - What is the difference between Allegati and Processetti? There was a newsletter sent out by my FHC and the editor was not clear about what the Allegati were so I would like to said her "Gente's" official definition so anyone who can share, please do. She will be writing her follow up newsletter tomorrow and I would like her to include the answer in it. This is what she wrote: A number of our patrons have ordered films from Italy entitled “Allegati” and even after looking at them I could not figure out what they were. Ancestry says “The allegati records are documents about a family that a couple had to submit before they could get married. They often provide documentation on several generations of the bride and groom’s family, occasionally even stretching back to the 17th and 18th centuries.” |
uantiti wrote: |
From what I could understand, the proxy was written by the groom (he was a notary). He could not go to Brognaturo for the marriage as he had to follow his business so he sent his brother in law to act on his behalf and marry the girl. Very romantic, isn't it? Ada |
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PROCESSETTI: These documents, first required by a Napoleonic Edict of 1808, were required by the state before a couple could get married. Some towns stopped requiring processetti at the end of the Napoleonic Era in 1815, but most Southern Italy towns continued the practice until unification circa 1865. As uantiti pointed out, the particular situation determined what documents were required. In its simplest form – when all of the parents of the couple to be married were alive and present in the town to consent in person to the marriage – the processetti would include just the bride and groom's birth extracts and the pubblicazioni posted in anticipation of the marriage. In the most extreme case (where all of the parents were deceased), processetti would include the bride and groom's birth extracts, the parent's death extracts, the grandparent's death extracts, and the pubblicazioni. In addition, the death extracts of any deceased spouse would also be included. However, in the case of multiple spouses, only the last spouse's death extract would be included. Finally, certain other extracts and notary records might be included, such as the consent of an absent father, adoptions, the recognition of a child once abandoned to the ruota di proietti, notarized statements of paternity or death where the relevant civil record could not be found, etc. Once I found a Sentence of Death among the processetti (for one of the fathers – not the groom!). A virtual gold mine for genealogists! Different towns enforced these requirements differently. All of the required death extracts were not always required or presented. For example, only the grandfather's death extracts would be included in some towns. DIVERSI: As nuccia pointed out, there records might include anything. However, the most common documents seen among the atti di diversi are (1) birth records of still-born children (morti-nati), (2) birth records of abandoned children (nati di proietti), (3) records of deaths of inhabitants that took place outside the town (morti fuori), (4) adoptions (adozioni), (5) recognitions of abandoned children (recognizioni), (6) changes of domicile (domicilio), (7) records of earlier deaths (morti tardi), and (8) records of the deaths of persons unknown (morti ignoti). There may, of course, be other records that I haven't run across during my research. |
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