{"id":12245,"date":"2016-01-13T10:28:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=12245"},"modified":"2023-10-16T14:50:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:50:01","slug":"follow-up-story-good-news-about-the-italian-state-archives-laquila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/follow-up-story-good-news-about-the-italian-state-archives-laquila.html","title":{"rendered":"Follow-Up Story: Good News about the Italian State Archives L\u2019Aquila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009 I wrote about the destruction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/archivio-di-stato-state-archive-laquila.html\">Archivio di Stato (State Archive) L\u2019Aquila, Italy, building that was destroyed by an earthquake<\/a> on 6 April 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake itself destroyed some records, and it also exposed the entire collection \u2013 centuries of records \u2013 to further destruction from the weather.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12246\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/photo-0113_2016-italian-state-archives.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/photo-0113_2016-italian-state-archives.png\" alt=\"Photo: the Italian State Archives L\u2019Aquila damaged by an earthquake in 2009\" width=\"430\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/photo-0113_2016-italian-state-archives.png 430w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/photo-0113_2016-italian-state-archives-295x300.png 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Archivio di Stato dell\u2019Aquila<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The archivists there and around the world immediately looked for \u2013 and found \u2013 solutions. The archivists signed an agreement two years later, on 30 June 2011, with the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, to digitize and begin putting these records online.<\/p>\n<p>I contacted FamilySearch to see how that is progressing and was informed that:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCivil registration (stato civile) of births, marriages, and deaths within the custody of the State Archive of L\u2019Aquila (Archivio di Stato di L\u2019Aquila) [which] also includes ten-year indexes (indici decennali); residency records (cittadinanze); marriage banns (notificazioni o pubblicazioni); supplemental records (allegati); marriage supplements (processetti); miscellaneous records (atti diversi), etc.\u201d are being put online.<\/p>\n<p>FamilSearch also reported:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecords included in this collection coincide with the modern-day provinces of L\u2019Aquila and Rieti.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These records can be searched on the FamilySearch site here: <a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1937372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1937372<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Digital copies of these records can be searched and viewed on the Italian National Archives (DGA) Portale degli antenati website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article about how the genealogy records of Italy\u2019s State Archive of L\u2019Aquila are being digitized following an earthquake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12715],"tags":[2339,1143,2525,1662,11067,11064,852,6776],"class_list":["post-12245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-earthquakes","tag-familysearch","tag-genealogy-records","tag-genealogy-technology","tag-italian-national-archives","tag-italian-state-archives-laquila","tag-italy","tag-natural-disasters"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/illustration-0113-2016-featured-graphic-scanner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95319,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions\/95319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}