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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. Records for each year are sorted within each index as follows:


 * Chronological order: 1866, 1868, 1870-1872, 1873 (Matrimoni), 1874,
 * First letter of given name; chronological within each letter: 1867, 1869, 1873 (Nati, Morti), 1875-1877, 1879 (Matrimoni),
 * First letter of surname; chronological within each letter: 1878, 1873 (Nati, Morti)

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

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