Italian Parish Records

Italian Parish Records www.italianparishrecords.org  
An online library for Italy's Catholic Parish Records.
Facilitate the preservation of the endangered Catholic sacramental parish records.  These unique one-of-a-kind records are the only historical documents that contain documentation that encapsulates almost the entirety of Italy’s people, exclusively from 1500 to the 1900s.   Our ultimate goal is to establish an online research library for accessing the Italian Catholic parish records and their respective extracted data, accessible freely to academics, genealogists, and the general public. 
These registries are unique and contain priceless data as recorded in the ordinances kept by the Catholic Church.  Occupations, migration patterns, natural disasters, etc. can be studied through data obtained in these records.  They hold a treasure chest of information that must be preserved before it is lost forever.