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Title in the Language of the Records
Stato Civile di Messina, Italia

Overview
The general purpose of a road map through Italian Civil Registration records is to provide a guide through the multi-year collections. Tables below list the starting image and ending image for each year's entries, along with the image number associated with the index for that year. Color changes within each table highlight a transition from one image collection to another. By general convention greens are used for births (Nati), yellows for marriages (Matrimoni), and reds for deaths (Morti).

This particular road map is intended to provide a guide through the multi-year records files for Gioiosa Marea.

Index Order
Index pages for Gioiosa Marea's vital records vary in their ordering technique, sometimes from year to year and sometimes from one type of record to another for the same year. Records for each year are sorted within each index as follows:


 * Chronological order:
 * Births: 1866, 1868, 1870-1872, 1874, 1888
 * Marriages: 1866, 1868, 1870-1874, 1881-1882, 1884-1894
 * Deaths: 1866, 1868, 1870-1872, 1874, 1885.
 * First letter of given name; chronological within each letter:
 * Births: 1867, 1869, 1873, 1875-1877, 1880-1887, 1889-1895
 * Marriages: 1867, 1869, 1875-1877, 1879-1880, 1883, 1895
 * Deaths: 1867, 1869, 1873, 1875-1877, 1880-1883, 1886-1895
 * First letter of surname; chronological within each letter:
 * Births: 1878-1879, 1896-1910
 * Marriages: 1878, 1896-1910
 * Deaths: 1878-1879, 1896-1910

Marriage records, when alphabetically arranged, are placed in order by the groom's name.

When ordering is done by surname, persons with dual surnames (e.g., Molica Franco) are generally sorted by their first surname. Persons with a "Di" prefix attached to their surname are generally alphabetized by the actual surname

Finally, there are some cases where names are given in transposed order; e.g., in an index listing surnames first, one or more entries might appear with a person's given name first.