Complete genealogy of a village, commune of Nocario, Castagniccia, Corsica

Complete genealogy of a village, commune of Nocario, Castagniccia, Corsica : Systematic examination of the archives of the civil status and parish registers (in Tuscan Italian and French) of a Corsican commune, for a scientific study on kinship and historical demography, between what the memory of the archives and the memory of the Nucarinchi today can teach us.

The civil status surveys were undertaken, in a first phase, with the help of Claire Battesti & Christian Badoual-Battesti†.

A first use of these early (incomplete) genealogical data has been initiated on the unofficial website of the commune of Nocario (site originally created by Christian Badoual-Battesti†) http://www.nocario.com.

Then, an intensive and systematic phase, with a new protocol, followed — after a pause of a couple of years — as part of a new and essential collaboration (since 2018) with the CNRS sociologist François Ireton (see Création du CIRC : Centre international de recherches sur la Castagniccia). This work is evolving into a study of historical demography on the Orezza Valley and focused mainly on the municipality of Nocario, in conjunction with a study of the evolution of land in Nocario. See: Anthropologie du paysage en Castagniccia, Corse.

In addition, we then benefited from the remarkable diligence of Mrs. Madeleine Laurens de Nocario (who worked with extreme accuracy on the difficult Ancien Régime parish registers).

– Eventually, all the data - once the work of recollection, transcription and verification is completed - will be offered to the public in open source. Nocario will probably be the only village with such a complete and systematic civil registry (birth/baptism, marriage, death/burial) (including marriages of villagers celebrated in other municipalities).

Pages d’un registre paroissial de la paroisse de San Michele di Nocario (aujourd’hui Nocario) de 1771 conservé (et photographié pour notre travail de retranscription) aux Archives départementales de Corse à Bastia. Ces pages sont ici en toscan (l’italien utilisé par l’administration en Corse et notamment l’état civil jusqu’en 1845).