Region: Calabria Province: Crotone
Tracing your Italian roots back to Caccuri, in Crotone province, Calabria region?
This comprehensive guide empowers you to understand the records available in Caccuri, unlocking your family’s rich history.
Where to Begin Your Ancestry Journey in Caccuri
If your ancestral trail leads to Caccuri, Italy, their vital records are likely housed in two key locations:
- Caccuri City Hall Archives: Established in 1809, these archives hold civil registry records like births, marriages, and deaths for Caccuri residents since then.
- Caccuri Parish Churches: For records pre-dating 1809 or for religious ceremonies, exploring Caccuri’s parish church archives might be necessary.
Civil Records in Caccuri
In towns and villages of Calabria and in Crotone province civil registry offices were established in 1809: it means that you could find your ancestors records in Caccuri Town Hall archives as of that date.
(If your goal is to get your Italian Citizenship and you need official certificates from Caccuri Municipality, follow this link).
So, if your ancestors lived in Caccuri during the past centuries, then you should start your family research from the City Office of Caccuri 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 Caccuri !)
- 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 Caccuri, 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 Caccuri 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 Caccuri. As more your surname is common, as more it could be difficult to find the right branch of your ancestors family in Caccuri 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 Crotone province are:
Adamo, Aiello, Arcuri, Astorino, Basile, Bevilacqua, Bruno, Caligiuri, Carvelli, Cortese, Curcio, Esposito, Fabiano, Falbo, Fazio, Ferraro, Gallo, Garofalo, Gentile, Giordano, Greco, Iaquinta, Ierardi, Le Rose, Lombardo, Macrì, Mancuso, Marino, Marrazzo, Martino, Mauro, Oliverio, Pace, Palmieri, Perri, Poerio, Pugliese, Rizza, Rizzo, Rocca, Russo, Salerno, Scalise, Schipani, Sestito, Tallarico, Vaccaro, Vona
Church Records in Caccuri
Church archives in Crotone 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 Caccuri 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 Caccuri:
S. MARIA DELLE GRAZIE – Via Chiesa
S. PIO DA PIETRELCINA – Via Cognale
For our experience, if you plan to come here to visit Caccuri, 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 Crotone.
If you need a professional help from our local genealogist in Caccuri area , write to caccuri@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 Caccuri too.
Here below you can read the messages received from other visitors in Caccuri forum:
if you only want to discuss with other people interested in genealogy in Caccuri feel free to leave a message below.
My great grandmother Rosa Oliverio was born in Caccuri in 1874. Her father’s name was James. I have no information on her mother. Rosa was married to a man with the last name Lacaria and they had a son Pietro, then they came to America, West Virginia and had another child Frances who is my grandmother. My GGF Lacaria took Pietro and went to Buenos Aries leaving Rosa alone with my grandmother Frances. If anyone has any information on a Rosa Oliverio or James Oliverio I would appreciate it. Also any information on the Lacaria family.
Hi Lisa,
I’m not sure there is any connection, but my husband’s maternal side is Lacaria. Are you on ancestry that we could share infomration?
I am trying to find information on my great grand mother Rosa Oliverio. She was born in Caccuri in 1874. I have her death certificate from Niagara Falls, NY and it has her father as James, and there is no mothers name on the certificate. Rosa was married to a man whose last name is Lacaria and they had a son Pietro born 1894 in Cantazaro Calabria. Her husband took Pietro and went to Buenos Aires while Rosa was pregnant or just had my grandmother Frances (not sure if they were in Italy at the time or in West Virginia USA). Rosa was devastated over Pietro being taken and Rosa nor my grandmother Frances ever spoke of Lacaria (I had to search for 2 years to find out the last name). I would appreciate any information on Rosa’s mother’s name, the first name of her 1st husband Lacaria or any information on Rosa’s siblings, if she had any. Thank you!
I just came across this site. I can see the need to find out more about Brandie and Mark. My grandparents, Francesco Guzzo and Maria Mazza married in Caccuri in 1905. They came to Montgomery WV about 1907. Their first three sons were born in Boomer. About 1915 they moved to Buffalo and lived on Myrtle St and Swan St as the family grew to eight boys. Their neighbors included the Demme family, the Naples and the Coniglios. Every summer the families travelled south to farms around Brant and North Collins to work on the farms. Mark, I have been in touch with members of your family as we have a common cousin.
I have been reading on several different forums trying to find more information. It is so interesting to see how many people came to Boomer from the same small area in Italy!
My great grandparents were from caccuri. Luisa Perri born in 1900 emigrated to the us to marry my great grandfather Giovanni pignanelli in 1913. She had a half sister named marguerite. Their name was changed to Pinion after settling in Boomer. WV. I would love to know my great great grandparents names. Thank you for any information.
Brandie: That’s interesting. My Great-grandfather, Vincenzo Demme, left Caccuri in 1912 with seven of his friends to go to Boomer as coal miners. His wife, Vincenza, and their first born, Francesco, followed them in 1914 via Naples. They ultimately ended up in Buffalo…