Region: Calabria Province: Cosenza
Tracing your Italian roots back to San Lucido, in Cosenza province, Calabria region?
This comprehensive guide empowers you to understand the records available in San Lucido, unlocking your family’s rich history.
Where to Begin Your Ancestry Journey in San Lucido
If your ancestral trail leads to San Lucido, Italy, their vital records are likely housed in two key locations:
- San Lucido City Hall Archives: Established in 1809, these archives hold civil registry records like births, marriages, and deaths for San Lucido residents since then.
- San Lucido Parish Churches: For records pre-dating 1809 or for religious ceremonies, exploring San Lucido’s parish church archives might be necessary.
Civil Records in San Lucido
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 San Lucido Town Hall archives as of that date.
(If your goal is to get your Italian Citizenship and you need official certificates from San Lucido Municipality, follow this link).
So, if your ancestors lived in San Lucido during the past centuries, then you should start your family research from the City Office of San Lucido 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 San Lucido !)
- 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 San Lucido, 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 San Lucido 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 San Lucido. As more your surname is common, as more it could be difficult to find the right branch of your ancestors family in San Lucido 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 San Lucido
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 San Lucido on your behalf to gather info about your family history during centuries.
In case you want to visit churches, these are the addresses of parishes active today in San Lucido:
S. GIOVANNI BATTISTA – Via S. Giovanni
For our experience, if you plan to come here to visit San Lucido, 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 San Lucido area , write to sanlucido@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 San Lucido too.
Here below you can read the messages received from other visitors in San Lucido forum:
if you only want to discuss with other people interested in genealogy in San Lucido feel free to leave a message below.
Hello! My name is Daniela Lo Feudo. My grandfather, Vincenzo Lo Feudo, immigrated to Santos, Brazil in 1920. He was born in 1902 I believe in San Lucido. My great grandparents’ names were Antonio Lo Feudo and Rosina Losso. Any information will be greatly appreciated as I am trying to search my ancestors as far back as possible. Thank you!
My great grandmother’s name was Rosa Cicero, my Grandmother’s name was Antoinette Novello ( or Di’Novelo).
She was from San Lucido.
I feel my people are there and my familia – anyone?
I am Martin Fernandez, 46 from Buenos Aires Argerntina, my mother is Maria De Gennaro from Argentina, my grandfather Osvaldo de Gennaro was Born in Buenos Aires 1920,but my great grandfather was born in San Lucido in1878, his mother was Rosario cataldo and his father Salvatore De Gennaro he come to Argentina about 1890-1905?Im looking for my De Gennaro family roots who lives now a days in San Lucido or Cosenza área,because i am planning to obtain my european Passport
My grandfather, Antonio Cassano was born in San Lucido on Aug 4, 1896. I believe his mother was Maria Nesi. He married my grandmother, Elisetta Alo in possibly in San Lucido but I don’t know the date. Does anyone have any information on him? I have reached a dead end searching for his father, siblings and marriage date.
Hello
Does anyone have any information regarding Alberto Marchese (could be Colomino or Filippo or Calvano) he was born about 1910 and was a prisoner of war in England. He returned to Italy about 1946 was in a fatal flying accident.
Regards
My Mother lived in San Lucido between the ages of 1-8. As far as I know both my maternal grandparents were born here as well. We hope to make a pilgrimage to San Lucido in a year or two. Is there any way to find out where my family may have lived, the school or church they attended? My Mom’s name is Gemma Guglielmo and my grandmother’s maiden name is Fiorina Miceli. My mom passed away from Alzheimer’s Disease which took it’s toll for 10 long years and although she forgot many things, she Always spoke about the little town she grew up in. Thank you.
I was just informed that I had an aunt (my father’s sister) who was born and disdain San Lucido. My father (Alberto Sangineto) was born in 1914. His sister, Elena, was born a few years later. I would like to know when she was born and when she died. She died when my father was about eight years old. Can you help me? Adeline Sangineto ?
Mio padre nacque a San lucido il11marzo 1877.mori’a San lucido nel settembre 1939.emigro’in Brasile. (Rio de janeiro)ma mantenne sempre la sua famiglia di quattro figli e moglie a San lucido
My father was born in San Lucido in 1920 his name Giovanni Battisa Giglio. He had two brothers Ezio and Luigi Gino Giglio. Their father was born and married in San Lucido. I am interested in information on any other relations I had or have in San Lucido.
Hello John. I love genealogy. My grandmother was Angelina Giglio. But she goes back to the 1870’s. There are a lot of Giglio’s still in that town. I have a little home 250 meters from the beach of San Lucido. I plan to go in April and
eventually I will be living (near) there. I can look up Giovanni Battista Giglio. and his brothers Ezio and Luigi, but the middle of Gino would be odd. It is a nickname and is probably the name: Luigino.
You had written Battisa (you forgot the “t”. ). Saint Giovanni Battista is the patron saint of the town. Big feast every year !. The word Giglio is the flower LILY. I don’t know how this site works – to see your answer or to see if you receive this.
Ermida….You are right about Luigino. I did not find many Giglio’s in the phone directory. I would be interested in seeing the birth certificate of my father and his two brothers. They were both older then him. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
I believe Ezio was born in 1915. Luigino was born between 1915 and 1920
Saluti da San Diego, in California! Il mio nome è Bruce Baumann e vorrei chiedere cortesemente di qualche aiuto nel trovare i miei parenti della famiglia che proveniva da San Lucido, Cosenza. Ho cercato di trovare informazioni su questi parenti, ma purtroppo non ho avuto fortuna. Spero che forse la Chiesa di San Giovanni (o qualche altra Chiesa nella zona) potrebbero avere alcuni registri di nascita o registri di battesimali per i miei parenti; e sarebbe davvero bello se potessi individuare alcuni membri della famiglia che ancora vivono nella zona. Ho intenzione di visitare San Lucido con mia madre a febbraio 2015. Qui sotto è l’unica informazione che ho sulla mia famiglia di San Lucido.
I nonni di mia Madre erano Luigi Cassano e Maria Lauretta Bruno, entrambi da San Lucido. Luigi è nato a San Lucido intorno al 1865. Ebbe un figlio, Vincenzo, con la sua prima moglie. Non sappiamo il nome della sua prima moglie, né sappiamo cosa è successo a lei. Vincenzo Cassano è nato a San Lucido intorno al 25 Ottobre 1890. Luigi e Vincenzo sono venuti negli Stati Uniti (a Erie, Pennsylvania) nella prima parte del 1900. Vincenzo ha combattuto durante la prima guerra mondiale, ma non sopravvisse alla guerra. Luigi tornò a San Lucido e ha fatto diversi viaggi tra l’Italia e gli Stati Uniti.
Luigi poi sposò Maria Lauretta Bruno, anche lei nata a San Lucido intorno al 1889, così lei aveva 24 anni di meno di Luigi. Luigi aveva un fratello, Natale Cassano, nato a San Lucido intorno al 1887. Maria Lauretta Bruno aveva un fratello, Giovanni, e una sorella il cui nome non lo so. La sorella di Lauretta ha lasciato l’Italia e andò in Brasile. Non sappiamo nulla di più della sorella.
Luigi e Lauretta hanno avuto un figlio, Pasquale, nato a San Lucido, il 24 settembre 1909. Nel 1913, Lauretta è venuta negli Stati Uniti con Pasquale e Natale Cassano, il cognato. Qualsiasi aiuto che potrebbe essere in grado di fornire nel trovare ulteriori informazioni su Luigi Cassano e Lauretta Bruno, i loro antenati sarebbe molto apprezzato. Mi piacerebbe anche sapere se ci sono delle loro famiglie che ancora vivono a San Lucido. La ringrazio per aver letto la mia lettera e per qualsiasi aiuto che potrebbe essere in grado di fornire.
Io parlo solo inglese e spagnolo, e molto poco italiana. Una amica ha tradotto questa lettera italiana.