Region: Calabria Province: Cosenza
Tracing your Italian roots back to Trenta, in Cosenza province, Calabria region?
This comprehensive guide empowers you to understand the records available in Trenta, unlocking your family’s rich history.
Where to Begin Your Ancestry Journey in Trenta
If your ancestral trail leads to Trenta, Italy, their vital records are likely housed in two key locations:
- Trenta City Hall Archives: Established in 1809, these archives hold civil registry records like births, marriages, and deaths for Trenta residents since then.
- Trenta Parish Churches: For records pre-dating 1809 or for religious ceremonies, exploring Trenta’s parish church archives might be necessary.
Civil Records in Trenta
In towns and villages of Calabria and in Cosenza province civil registry offices were established in 1809: it means that you could find your ancestors records in Trenta Town Hall archives as of that date.
(If your goal is to get your Italian Citizenship and you need official certificates from Trenta Municipality, follow this link).
So, if your ancestors lived in Trenta during the past centuries, then you should start your family research from the City Office of Trenta to know more: our local expert is ready to help you in your research!
With his deep knowledge of people and local history he will assist you not only finding names and dates (births, marriages, deaths) but he will reveal to you many other precious information on the life of your ancestors available in the old registers.
- Professions: do you know what your ancestors did for a living? Our genealogist will be able to give you this info!
- Addresses: the house where your family lived (a great information if you intend to visit Trenta !)
- Churches: where they were baptized or married
- Signatures: if your ancestors knew how to write, he will be able to show you their original signatures.
(If you can’t visit Trenta, our researcher will give you the necessary info to find by yourself the relevant places on the maps available online)
Next picture shows the demographic trends in Trenta from the Italian Unification (1861).
This is a necessary info to understand how many people lived in the town in the past.
To go on quickly in your research is important to know if the last name you are investigating is a frequent surname in Trenta. As more your surname is common, as more it could be difficult to find the right branch of your ancestors family in Trenta archives, expecially if you have not exact dates (there could be cases of homonymy).
It’s useful for you to know that some of the most common surnames in Cosenza province are:
Aiello, Barone, Bruno, Caputo, Caruso, Chiappetta, De Luca, De Marco, De Rose, Esposito, Falcone, Ferraro, Filice, Fusaro, Gabriele, Gagliardi, Gallo, Garofalo, Gaudio, Gencarelli, Gentile, Giordano, Greco, Guido, Leone, Longo, Madeo, Marino, Martino, Mazzei, Morrone, Nicoletti, Nigro, Palermo, Perri, Perrone, Porco, Presta, Pugliese, Rizzo, Romano, Ruffolo, Russo, Salerno, Santoro, Spadafora, Sposato, Veltri.
Church Records in Trenta
Church archives in Cosenza province may store even older information. You will find religious records of the same events (births, marriages and deaths) but, most important, you could go further back in time!
So in case you would like to go back in centuries, it’s good for you to know that the parish registers in Calabria started during 1500!
Parish archives are far less accessible expecially from abroad and very hard to read and decipher if you are not used and skilled.
But our local genealogists, are graduated in history and archivistics so, with their expertise, they can research the church registers of Trenta on your behalf to gather info about your family history during centuries.
For our experience, if you plan to come here to visit Trenta, we always suggest to start the research months before the arrival.
This because a comprehensive genealogy research is time consuming!
Starting from home, you will have time to get a complete research avoiding to waste your holidays in the offices or in the churches dealing with italian bureaucracy .
(Remember that archives are not open to public and officers and priests are not required by law to give you access to the local archives)
With the results gathered by our genealogist and translated in your language before your arrival, you will have the possibility to plan carefully your visit.
In this way you will have more free time to enjoy your tour to the roots on your ancestors footsteps.
Another important source of information are the notary documents available to expert researchers in the State Archives of Cosenza.
If you need a professional help from our local genealogist in Trenta area , write to trenta@italianside.com or fill the form here.
Our expert will study your request and will reply to you with a plan and a quote for your family research.
If you think to contact the town hall by yourself, we suggest you to read our tips for your search. They are useful advices to search in Calabria and of course in Trenta too.
Here below you can read the messages received from other visitors in Trenta forum:
if you only want to discuss with other people interested in genealogy in Trenta feel free to leave a message below.
Hello: My wife’s grandfather was born in Trenta in 1878 as Nicola Greco. For some unknown reason he legally changed his name in 1899 to Nicola Noto. His father was Alessandro Greco and his mother was Maria Antonia Pantuso. He had a sister named Caterina Greco. If anyone has any info on his family and why he changed his name please let me know. Thanks,Chuck
I am looking for information on my great great grandfather Pasquale Cannataro. I know he was married to a Maria but don’t know her maiden name which I would also like to find out. I know they had one son, my great grandfather Michele Cannataro born October 4, 1858. I don’t know if there were any other children but would like any of that information also. Michele was married to Guiseppina Spadafore (born 1863). They had four children that I know of, Ippolito Paolo, Francesco, Salvatore and Marie Sue. They lived at #7 Vico Delirio or Delizio in Trenta when my grandfather Ippolito was born in 1887. They came to the United States in the early 1900’s. Any information would be greatly appreciated. I am hoping to get my Italian citizenship and would like as much information as possible.
I’m searching for relatives in Trenta, and verification on the facts that I now know. It appears that my Grandfather is Giuseppe Baldino who was born in 1876 and at age 14 immigrated to New York in the company of Nunziato Baldino (possible father). Ship documents list them on the ship Alesia in 1890. I can trace Giuseppe from arrival in NY forward but have no indication of relatives in Trenta nor anything about Nunziato Baldino other than ship documents.
I am searching for relatives of my grandmother, Rosina Feraca from somewhere near Trenta. She was born on 28, 1898. She had 2 sisters, Mariette and Theresa and 3 brothers, Salvatore, Peppino and Benny. Salvatore and Peppino stayed in Cosenza and raised there families there. The rest of the siblings moved to New York. I went to Cosenza in 1967 with my grandmother and stayed with Salvatore Feraca and his family. I met many cousins that I am now searching to find. They would be the children of Peppino Feraca and Salvatore Feraca. The spelling of Feraca may be different. Some of the first names I have are:
Davio, Geach, Salvatore (priest), Carmella, Mariette, Libya.
Hopefully I have enough information to help find some of our cousins.
Thanks you!
Rosemary
What I am ultimately looking for are siblings to my great great grandfather Achille Branca – I found information at the below website but its been down for 2 weeks now! Can I find the children of (Antonio) Ferdinando Branca and Maria Rogato at any other site? Im trying to locate Achille Branca’s siblings.
This is what I know:
Achille Branca, calzolaio born on 15/12/1873 in TRENTA son of (Antonio) Ferdinando Branca and Maria Rogato
My name is Marnie Robison. My great-grandfather, Pietro Alfredo DeRose, came to the United Statea in the early 1900’s. He was born in Isola di Capo Rizzuto, but his father, Giuseppe De Rose was from Feruci. Giuseppe was born 2 March 1856 and died 9 April 1916. Giuseppe was married to Luigia Lorenzo, who died there 16 November 1946. I am looking for pedigree research for Giuseppe’s children and their spouses. (I know his direct line paternal ancestry back three or four generations). Eventually, I want to fill in the rest of the De Rose family tree with spouses and children.