Region: Campania Province: Avellino
Tracing your Italian roots back to Montefalcione, in Avellino province, Campania region?
This comprehensive guide empowers you to understand the records available in Montefalcione, unlocking your family’s rich history.
Where to Begin Your Ancestry Journey in Montefalcione
If your ancestral trail leads to Montefalcione, Italy, their vital records are likely housed in two key locations:
- Montefalcione City Hall Archives: Established in 1809, these archives hold civil registry records like births, marriages, and deaths for Montefalcione residents since then.
- Montefalcione Parish Churches: For records pre-dating 1809 or for religious ceremonies, exploring Montefalcione’s parish church archives might be necessary.
Civil Records in Montefalcione
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 Montefalcione Town Hall archives as of that date.
(If your goal is to get your Italian Citizenship and you need official certificates from Montefalcione Municipality, follow this link).
So, if your ancestors lived in Montefalcione during the past centuries, then you should start your family research from the City Office of Montefalcione 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 Montefalcione !)
- 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 Montefalcione, 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 Montefalcione 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 Montefalcione. As more your surname is common, as more it could be difficult to find the right branch of your ancestors family in Montefalcione 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 Montefalcione
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 Montefalcione on your behalf to gather info about your family history during centuries.
For our experience, if you plan to come here to visit Montefalcione, 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 Montefalcione area , write to montefalcione@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 Montefalcione too.
Here below you can read the messages received from other visitors in Montefalcione forum:
if you only want to discuss with other people interested in genealogy in Montefalcione feel free to leave a message below.
Hi. i am looking for anything about the Calcinari name. i know my great, great grandfather has the area on his records.
Reggerio Calcinari. His father was Fortunato At one time they owned a farm in the area,
We were just in the area and it was beautiful.
Thank you.
Angela
I believe my great grandfather, Giuseppe Anzalone (Joseph
Anzelone a- changed a to an e about 1910) and Camilla Anzelone and his wife are from Montefalcione. He immigrated to the US in 1880. How can I verify that Montefalcione is his birthplace?
I am looking for the marriage date of Angelo Baldassarree and Carmela Saran in Montefalcione about 1900.
Thank You
My family came to the United States in 1920 my grandfather’s name was Leonardo Vacario, my grandmother’s name was Mary Asunta, she had two children with her Mary and Rocky. I saw a copy of their names on a ship’s manifest and their recorded as going through Ellis Island
My grandfather was Leonardo Vacario , grandmother was Mary Asunta. They came to the United States in 1920. I saw the ship’s manifest with both their names on it. They came through Ellis Island. She had two children with her, Rocky, and Mary.
my mothers sister and brothers were born in Naples Avelino montefalchione. My grandmothers maiden name was Pepe. Her first name was Lucretzia.thank you for any information you may have.
Ann Sanza
My maternal grandfather was Pasquale Pepe born in Montefalcione in 1893. His parent were Angelo Pepe and Teresa Fulano. I know very little else about this branch of the tree.
My wife’s grandmother Marionanna D’Amore was born in Montefalcione on 16 December 1889. Her aunts Olympia and Elizabeth and uncle Felice were also born there. We are looking for the names and whatever information available of their parents. My wife will be in the area of Montefalcione in September 2016 and would like to meet family members who may be living there.
I have been doing research on my mother’s family. My grandfather’s name
was Basilio Polcari, he was born in Montefalcione on Aug. 28, 1886 – his
parents names were Mariano Polcari and Maria Nasta Polcari. He had one sister named, Rose, I don’t know what her married name was. He emigrated to the United States in 1903. I know that his father died when he was 2 years old. His mother never remarried. She came to the US when he married my grandmother on March 7, 2012 and stayed a few years. Returned to Italy a few years later and never returned. I’m trying to unravel the mystery of my great-grandmother Maria Nasta Polcari – I was told that she had been born in Germany and adopted as an infant. Names that have been mentioned
are Schiavone and also Van(or Von)Damme. Not much to go on. Would love to know the real story and also if there are any relatives still in Italy. I was told that my grandfather’s sister Rose had 6 children. I’m hoping to find some answers
My great grandfather Luigi Polcari from Montefalcoine immigrated to Boston in 1900 with his wife Maria and their 4 sons Annebale, Raphael,Gaetano and Carmine. The birth date of his 4 sons are 1885,1887,1889,and 1891 I am looking to find any information regarding the Polcari Family that still lives in Montefalcoine
Morning, my grandmother’s last name was Anzalone, Maria. She came to this country usa, in 1916, with her husband, Sepharial Capone and 6 children. His son Ben was my dad…the Anzalone family is in Revere, Ma. which I have not seen for some years…It seems like this is a connection, email me…ask your mom if anyone from her family married a Capone while in Montafalcione…I also am trying to find out more about my lineage….thank you Joanne Capone
Hello I wonder if you could help me. I am trying to locate information on my grandfather Carmine Anzalone from Montefalcione Avellino Italy. Unfortunately I never got to meet him as he died when my mother was only a teenager, however my mother whom is now 84 years of age recollects her time with her father and has told me some wonderful stories which I have passed on to my own children. I would so much like to know his date of birth and also of when he died.
My father, Francesco Ernesto Iantosca, was born in Montefalcione on March 26, 1905 and came to The United States as a child of 7 years in 1912 with his father, Feliciano. His mother, who died in Montefalcione before his father emigrated, was Angela Baldassarre Iantosca.
Can you share any additional information regarding either family (Iantosca or Baldassarre)?
Francis
Hi
I came across your post as I was researching my family name. I have a Feliciano Iantosca on my family tree. I would be happy to share the family tree with you. It dates back to 1700 with “Angelo Iantosca” in Montefalcione.
God Bless
Philip
I would like to see the family tree! My maiden name is Elena Iantosca and my great grandfather’s name was Feliciano Iantosca.
Hey Philip, can you send me the family tree that you have. I believe we may be related.
Francis,
Did Francesco have siblings named Pasqualina and Antonio?
My grandfather, Davide Petruzziello left his families farm in Montefalcione Italy in April 1898 bound for New York. He was born in 1874 or so.
Is there any information on his family or their decendants in Montefalcoine ? I would be grateful to find any information on his life and family there.
I am planning a trip from the United States to Italy in September 2014 and am trying to find any living relatives. Im not sure where to find any information beyond this and would ask for you assistance. I know my great grandfather Angelo Ventresco was born in BUGNARA, L’aquilla, Abruzzo in 1870 and emigrated to US in 1890. His parents, I think, were Francesco Ventresco born 1856 and Luiga Salamone, who may have been from Barisciano My great grandmother Anna Frattaroli was born in 1880 in Bugnara. Her parents were Pasquale Frattaroli and his wife Columba Calaluca who never left Italy.
On the other side of the family, Mariano Rizzo was born 7/21/1883 in Taursi Avellino,Campania imigrated 4/23/1898. His parents were Mariano Rizzo, born 1859 and Mother Vicenza Seruetella. My great grandmother Catrina Pagliuca was born around 1882 and emigrated in April 1902 from Montefalcione Avellino Campania. Her father was Angelo Pagluccia and her mother was Matella Ansalone
I was doing a little digging into the “Family” geneology and came across your message. So, Angelo and Anna are my Great Grandparents as well. My grandfather was John Ventresco and Grandmother Rose Ventresco. My father was Joe Ventresco (Sr). Was your grandfather Joseph and grandmother Matilda Rizzo?