Civil registry

The State Archives holds

the Ancona Historical Archive, which

contains the city registry’s information from June 1808 to July 1815. The brith,

marriage and death certificates of the parishes of the Ancona, Fabriano,

Jesi, Loreto, Osimo e Senigallia dioceses between

1863 and 1865 and the Civil Registry files of the whole Ancona province (1866 – 1950) and its attached files are also available at this Archive.

Army census

The Ancona Military District holds the Ancona Province Recruitment Lists (classes of 1836-1944), Ascoli Piceno, Macerata, and Pesaro-Urbino.

The Navy Recruitment Lists the Ancona Province classes of 1900-1918.

Conscription results of Lagosta (Lastovo, for the classes 1901-1925) and Zara (Zadar, for the classes 1899-1925), at the time included in the territory of the Military District of Ancona.

Recruitment number and military draw number

Army rolls of the Military District of Ancona, from the class of those born in 1874 until 1945. The rolls kept at the State Archives in Ancona concern only ‘military troopers’ (privates and inferior graduates) registered in all the municipalities of the province.

Personal records of soldiers enrolled in the Ancona Guardia di Finanza for the classes from 1830 to 1904.

Military rolls of the Navy (1901-1919). However, the rolls relate only to military personnel transferred from land to sea. The Ancona Harbour Office, on the other hand, keeps the complete series of those registered in the Italian Navy.

Special matriculation rolls. These are 39 registers paid by the Distretto Militare di Ancona to the Archivio di Stato di Ancona in December 2018. The series includes: Matriculation rolls of the Italian Red Cross, registers of partisans and partisans registered with the military district, registers of volunteers, register of the fallen, golden roll of the fallen of the Great War.

Other sources in the archive

Registers of the deceased of the City of Ancona (1554-1861). These are the annual records of all the deaths that occurred in the town, which the parish priest noted down in alphabetical order (by the proper name of the deceased, followed by the surname).