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Jewish Genealogy in Italy by Nardo Bonomi
Italian Resources for Jewish Genealogy by Nardo Bonomi
Italian Genealogy Page
Italian Genealogy, Culture, Heritage, and Databases
Tuscany: Archivio di Stato di Firenze: Online Civil registrations for Napoleonic Period 1808-1814; Italian Restauration 1816-1865
Livorno: Civil registrations Napoleonic Period 1808-1814
Livorno: Civil registrations during Restauration 1816-1860
Livorno: Civil registrations during Restauration 1861-1865
and similar for civil registrations of Pisa, Firenze, Siena, Pitigliano, etc.
(Thanks to Michele Sacerdoti for this information(
Italian Ancestors Search on the word "Juifs"
Names of Jews in Rome in the 1550s
Table of Names of Jews in Rome in the 1550s
Jewish surnames in Rome during 1500s
A Sample of Jewish names in Milan 1540-1570
Jewish names in 1492 Sicily from Sicilian Provincial State Archives
Sicilian Genealogy Types of Genealogy Records

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Databases (See for latest available databases )

Venezia Ancient Cemetery
Livorno 1841 Census of Jews
Tuscany: Archivio di Stato di Firenze: Online Civil registrations for Napoleonic Period 1808-1814; Italian Restauration 1816-1865   (Link off-site)
Livorno: Civil registrations Napoleonic Period 1808-1814
Livorno: Civil registrations during Restauration 1816-1860
Livorno: Civil registrations during Restauration 1861-1865
and similar for civil registrations of Pisa, Firenze, Siena, Pitigliano, etc.
  (Thanks to Michele Sacerdoti for this information)
Jews in the Italian Ghettos - 1516-1789   extracted by Lea Haber Gedalia
Two Charity Societies in Livorno, Italy (1664 and 1715)
Name Index of Luzzatto's Gal Avanim, Trieste, 1851
Surnames in Italy (Searchable)   (Link off-site)
Sephardic Ketubot from Italy (786 Ketubot, 3,200 persons)
Italian Sephardim Deported to Bergen Belsen

General Sites

Medici Archive Project Jewish Initiative - The Jews and the Medici
Medici Archive Project Jewish Initiative - Documents relating to Jewish History
Jews of Italy
Jewish diaspora: Rome
The Ancient Jewish Cemetery at The Lido in Venice
Jewish Catacombs in Italy
Jews built the Roman Coliseum
The Jewish Cemetery at Lido in Venice - Stefano Levi Della Torre
Vatican opens Inquisition archives
Sicilian Jews (by Judith Roumani)
Calabrian Jews: Thinking Outside the Tzedakah Box
Arab Sicily
Jews of Messina by Professore Giuseppe Martino
Jews in the Army of the Kingdom of Italy (1848-1923)
I-TAL-YA - L'Isola della Rugiada Divina

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Bibliography
For a more complete extensive bibliography

Malka, Jeffrey S.

Sephardic Genealogy:
Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World.

Avotaynu, 2002. Click here for Table of Contents and to order.
Indispensible. The ONLY comprehensive book for Sephardic Genealogy. -- History, research methods, archives, surnames, maps, bibliography, and more.
Luzzati, Michele
Ebrei di Livorno tra due Censimenti (1841-1938)
memoria familiare e identita.

Comune di Livorno, Belfore eidotre librai, 1990. Contains the 1841 census of Livorno Jews in table form and several family trees (Piperno, Funaro, Disegni, Bueno, Cava, Raba, Bassano, Belforte, Castelli, Rosselli-Tedesco-Castelfranchi, Cingoli-Ottolenghi, Salmoni-Funaro-Bonaventura, Salmon, Cave Bondi)
Toaff, Renzo
La Nazione Ebrea a Livorno e a Pisa (1591-1700)
Firenze: Leo S. Olschiki Editore, 1990. Full Index.
Luzzati, Michele
Gli Ebrei di Pisa (secoli IX-XX)
Pisa: Pacini, 1998.
Schaert, Samuele
Tutti i cognomi delle famiglie ebraiche (All the Surnames of the Jews of Italy)
Epoca, 1987.
Sacerdoti, Annie
A Guide to Jewish Italy
Rizzoli, 2004.

See also bibliography of Jewish Sicily and bibliography, Sicilian Jews

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