Region: Campania Province: Avellino
Tracing your Italian roots back to Bisaccia, in Avellino province, Campania region?
This comprehensive guide empowers you to understand the records available in Bisaccia, unlocking your family’s rich history.
Where to Begin Your Ancestry Journey in Bisaccia
If your ancestral trail leads to Bisaccia, Italy, their vital records are likely housed in two key locations:
- Bisaccia City Hall Archives: Established in 1809, these archives hold civil registry records like births, marriages, and deaths for Bisaccia residents since then.
- Bisaccia Parish Churches: For records pre-dating 1809 or for religious ceremonies, exploring Bisaccia’s parish church archives might be necessary.
Civil Records in Bisaccia
In towns and villages of Campania and in Avellino province civil registry offices were established in 1809: it means that you could find your ancestors records in Bisaccia Town Hall archives as of that date.
(If your goal is to get your Italian Citizenship and you need official certificates from Bisaccia Municipality, follow this link).
So, if your ancestors lived in Bisaccia during the past centuries, then you should start your family research from the City Office of Bisaccia 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 Bisaccia !)
- 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 Bisaccia, 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 Bisaccia 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 Bisaccia. As more your surname is common, as more it could be difficult to find the right branch of your ancestors family in Bisaccia 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 Avellino province are:
Albanese, Bruno, Capobianco, Capone, Carbone, Cardinale, Caruso, Cioffi, Cipriano, Colucci, Coppola, Cucciniello, De Feo, De Luca, De Maio, De Simone, De Stefano, De Vito, Di Pietro, Esposito, Famiglietti, Ferraro, Festa, Fiore, Forgione, Gallo, Grasso, Graziano, Guarino, Guerriero, Iannaccone, Iuliano, Lepore, Lo Conte, Lombardi, Luongo, Matarazzo, Napolitano, Nigro, Petrillo, Picariello, Romano, Ruggiero, Russo, Santoro, Sarno, Spagnuolo, Vitale.
Church Records in Bisaccia
Church archives in Avellino 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 Campania 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 Bisaccia 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 Bisaccia:
NATIVITA’ DI MARIA – Piazza Duomo
S. CUORE DI GESU’ VITA E RESURREZIONE NOSTRA – Via Piano di Zona
For our experience, if you plan to come here to visit Bisaccia, 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 Avellino.
If you need a professional help from our local genealogist in Bisaccia area , write to bisaccia@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 Campania and of course in Bisaccia too.
Here below you can read the messages received from other visitors in Bisaccia forum:
if you only want to discuss with other people interested in genealogy in Bisaccia feel free to leave a message below.
I would like some assistance in researching my family history in Bisaccia. Can you help?
Like to find out about Anthony Limotta born June 8th 1889.
I am looking for family records on Ragazzo and Gallicchio in Bisaccia.
My great grandmother was Concetta LaVita who was from Bisaccia. In 1898 she gave birth to my grandfather, Nicholas Villarosa. I believe the birth was out of wedlock. I am trying to determine who fathered my grandfather. Rumor here is that he was killed locally after fathering a second child, Lucille.
Ciao, mio nonno nacque a Bisaccia nel 1899 mese di aprile, non so dopo quanto tempo fu dato in affidamento a una famiglia di Lacedonia e il nome fu Dagostino Alessandro e a Lacedonia lo chiamavano Filippo, vorrei sapere se nel municipio di Bisaccia c’e’ scritto il nome dei genitori oppure madre naturale, io sono molto orgoglioso delle origini di mio nonno, grande uomo
My grandparents were born in Bisaccia c1888. Donato Ragazzo and Filomena Gallicchio Ragazzo. I would like to get a copy of their BCs.
One of my brothers and I just returned at the end of Sept 2016 from Bisaccia, the town of our father’s birth, having spent a week there. We met cousins and had the advantage of their guidance. We did go to the town hall and were able to look (have shown to us) two birth records (Russo and Cella) on two different occasions but it wasn’t easy. Despite having a local resident assist us the person in the town hall made it seem like he was doing us a big favor retrieving records which were there in plain sight. Had all of maybe 2 minutes access. We could have found much more info but under these circumstances.
It is that really my home land ?
Hi,I am looking for relatives of Antonio Vito fortunato.He was my grandfather
Idk but we share the same last name. I’m trying to figure out
I’m trying to find info on Maria Civita Conforti. she was born about 1855 in Bisaccia. Her husband was Vincenzo Coviello and they had a daughter Rosina and she went to the United States and married Francesco Manganelli in 1910. There also was a Donato and Guiseppe Conforti who went to the United States and lived near Boston, MA. I’m trying to understand their connection to each other as my Mother in law is the granddaughter to Maria. I think donato and Guiseppe’s father is Maria’s brother. Could use some help. Thank you, Cheryl
Hello,
My great-grandfather, his parents, and a few of his siblings immigrated to Hamilton, Ohio from Bisaccia in the early 20th century. I have many names, his date of birth, and even a family photo from 1905 or so. My great-grandfather’s name was Vincenzo Donatiello, the son of Giuseppe and Maria Donatiello. I visited Bisaccia in 2010 with my dad when I was studying in Florence and wish I had thought to visit the town office. I would appreciate any help in finding out more background on my family.
Thank you.
My wife’s family (Russo) also came from Bisaccia to Hamilton, OH. That’s probably not coincidence.
My Grandfather Frank Cella came from Bisaccia, Italy to CT and then to Hamilton, OH
I am trying to locate my great grandfathers birth certificate but am under the impression it along with some other records from Bisaccia were destroyed or lost. Is there any way I can still get one for him?