Region: Basilicata Province: Matera
Tracing your Italian roots back to Cirigliano, in Matera province, Basilicata region?
This comprehensive guide empowers you to understand the records available in Cirigliano, unlocking your family’s rich history.
Where to Begin Your Ancestry Journey in Cirigliano
If your ancestral trail leads to Cirigliano, Italy, their vital records are likely housed in two key locations:
- Cirigliano City Hall Archives: Established in 1809, these archives hold civil registry records like births, marriages, and deaths for Cirigliano residents since then.
- Cirigliano Parish Churches: For records pre-dating 1809 or for religious ceremonies, exploring Cirigliano’s parish church archives might be necessary.
Civil Records in Cirigliano
In towns and villages of Basilicata and in Matera province civil registry offices were established in 1809: it means that you could find your ancestors records in Cirigliano Town Hall archives as of that date.
(If your goal is to get your Italian Citizenship and you need official certificates from Cirigliano Municipality, follow this link).
So, if your ancestors lived in Cirigliano during the past centuries, then you should start your family research from the City Office of Cirigliano 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 Cirigliano !)
- 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 Cirigliano, 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 Cirigliano 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 Cirigliano. As more your surname is common, as more it could be difficult to find the right branch of your ancestors family in Cirigliano archives, expecially if you have not exact dates (there could be cases of homonymy).
It’s useful for you to know that the most common surnames in Matera province are:
Andrisani, Bianco, Bruno, Carbone, Carlucci, Cifarelli, Colucci, Coretti, D’Alessandro, Di Cuia, Di Lecce, Di Pede, Ferrara, Festa, Fiore, Fortunato, Gaudiano, Giordano, Grieco, Guida, Iacovone, Lamacchia, Lauria, Leone, Manicone, Martino, Matera, Montemurro, Montesano, Nicoletti, Olivieri, Padula, Paolicelli, Papapietro, Quinto, Rinaldi, Rizzi, Romano, Rondinone, Rubino, Ruggieri, Russo, Sacco, Salerno, Stigliano, Tataranni, Venezia, Vizziello.
Church Records in Cirigliano
Church archives in Matera 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 Basilicata 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 Cirigliano 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 Cirigliano:
S. MARIA ASSUNTA – Largo Chiesa Madre
For our experience, if you plan to come here to visit Cirigliano, 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 Matera.
If you need a professional help from our local genealogist in Cirigliano area , write to cirigliano@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 Basilicata and of course in Cirigliano too.
Here below you can read the messages received from other visitors in Cirigliano forum:
if you only want to discuss with other people interested in genealogy in Cirigliano feel free to leave a message below.
My grandparents, mom, and aunts and uncle were born in cirigliano. They immigrated to Canada in 1953. My grandfather’ s name is Salvatore Mastronardi and my nonna’s name is Camilla cacao. Children’s names Mario,Rosalia,Carmela,Tonina, andGiuseppina. Do you have information.
Thank you,
Melina
Hello,
My 2nd great grandfather was Antonio Cirigliano. He was born in 1873 in Italy. He arrived in New York City in 1884 and settled there. He was naturalized in 1896 and raised a family in NYC.
Since his last name was Cirigliano, I was wondering if he definitely came from Cirigliano in Matera or if there are other areas I should look at. I could not find where he immigrated from in any records.
Thank you so much.
Hello,
I would love any information. My grandfather was Giuseppe DeRosa lived-in Cirigliano from 1912-1934. His siblings all lived in Cirigliano at one time. They are Nicola, Giovanni, Camilla, Mariastella, and Antonetta. Their mother was Cristina Quirino, died in Cirigliano in 1970. Her husband was Saverio DeRosa. I believe I may have relatives living there with the surname of Villone as well, since that was the maiden name of Cristina’s mother.
Mr grandmother was Rosa Fortuna born in Cirigliano. Her brother was Giuseppe. Their parents were Francesco and Margarita.
I am visiting Italy and Cirigliano in August. I would love to know if anyone has heard of the people mentioned above. I realize it was a long time ago.
Hi Jim,
my father’s family is from Cirigliano. I’m trying to build my family tree, I know some relatives went to America, among Francesco and Giuliano (Julian) Fortuna. I’d like to share some information to understand if we have some relatives in common. If you are interested, leave a message here, and we can organize a chat.
Hi thanks for considering my request,
I would love to know about the family names, Marino and Sanservino .
My great grandparents were both born in the town of Cirigliano ..
They both immigrated to Canada in the early part of the 1900’s.
My great grandfather s name is Frank Marino ,
His wife s name was Anna Sanservino ..
They both came by boat to Ellis island .. Later settled in BC Canada.
I would love any information you may have ,
Thank you
Luana McDonald
My great grandparents were also from Cirigliano. They were Joe and Filomena SanSeverino which was the original pronunciation. I can’t remember the exact relationship but he was related to Marinos. I’d have to check again. They ended up in Revelstoke and also I believe, came through Ellis Island according to records I found. He came earlier and then went back to marry a younger girl and brought her back. I wish I’d found your msg sooner! My mother is a Sanservino (changed spelling by my grandparents) and she’d remember better. They had 6 children, one of whom was my grandfather Nick (Vito Nicola).