Genealogy Research in Southern Italy

The official, continuously updated website for the Italian phone directory is http://paginebianche.it/

To find present addresses you will need exact spelling of the surname; then you can limit the research by village or town, or province or region of origin (abbreviation, i.e. Napoli refers to the city, NA to the province), or region of origin in case the surnames is common and there are over 200 in Italy (the Pagine Bianche search engine supplies max 200 results). If you do not insert the place, the engine will search throughout Italy.

The screenshots below will show you how to use the white pages effectively to find addresses of people and offices. If you need to write for certificates, instead of the surname insert in the "cognome" fiels the word "municipio" (=townhall).

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Below is the screen that you will see and where you'll have to fill just two fields, before clicking the button "cerca".

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If your search returned over 200 results, you will see the screenshot below and you will be able to limit to a place (the other options have no interest here). This function is useful also to know all the places in a province where a given surname appears.

Abbreviations of Italian Provinces

ABRUZZO : Chieti (CH) - L'Aquila (AQ) - Pescara (PE) - Teramo (TE)

BASILICATA : Matera (MT) - Potenza (PZ)

CALABRIA : Catanzaro (CZ) - Cosenza (CS) - Crotone (KR) - Reggio Calabria (RC) - Vibo Valentia (VV)

CAMPANIA : Avellino (AV) - Benevento (BN) - Caserta (CE) - Napoli (NA) - Salerno (SA)

EMILIA ROMAGNA : Bologna (BO) - Ferrara (FE) - Forlė-Cesena (FO) - Modena (MO) - Parma (PR) - Piacenza (PC) - Ravenna (RA) - Reggio Emilia (RE) - Rimini (RN)

FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA : Gorizia (GO) - Pordenone (PN) - Trieste (TS) - Udine (UD)

LAZIO : Frosinone (FR) - Latina (LT) - Rieti (RI) - Roma (RM) - Viterbo (VT)

LIGURIA : Genova (GE) - Imperia (IM) - La Spezia (SP) - Savona (SV)

LOMBARDIA: Bergamo (BG) - Brescia (BS) - Como (CO) - Cremona (CR) - Lecco (LC) - Lodi (LO) - Mantova (MN) - Milano (MI) - Pavia (PV) - Sondrio (SO) - Varese (VA)

MARCHE : Ancona (AN) - Ascoli Piceno (AP) - Macerata (MC) - Pesaro-Urbino (PS)

MOLISE : Campobasso (CB) - Isernia (IS)

PIEMONTE : Alessandria (AL) - Asti (AT) - Biella (BI) - Cuneo (CN) - Novara (NO) - Torino (TO) - Verbania (VB) - Vercelli (VC)

PUGLIA : Bari (BA) - Brindisi (BR) - Foggia (FG) - Lecce (LE) - Taranto (TA)

SARDEGNA : Cagliari (CA) - Carbonia Iglesias (CI) - Medio Campidano (MD) - Nuoro (NU) - Ogliastra (OG) - Olbia Tempio (OT) - Oristano (OR) - Sassari (SS)

SICILIA : Agrigento (AG) - Caltanissetta (CL) - Catania (CT) - Enna (EN) - Messina (ME) - Palermo (PA) - Ragusa (RG) - Siracusa (SR) - Trapani (TP)

TOSCANA : Arezzo (AR) - Firenze (FI) - Grosseto (GR) - Livorno (LI) - Lucca (LU) - Massa-Carrara (MS) - Pisa (PI) - Pistoia (PT) - Prato (PO) - Siena (SI)

TRENTINO ALTO-ADIGE : Bolzano (BZ) - Trento (TN)

UMBRIA : Perugia (PG) - Terni (TR)

VALLE D'AOSTA : Aosta (AO)

VENETO : Belluno (BL) - Padova (PD) - Rovigo (RO) - Treviso (TV) - Venezia (VE) - Verona (VR) - Vicenza (VI)