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 civil registration records 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, the inhabitants of Nucariu/Nocario, 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 interdisciplinaire 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).

– In due course, all the data will be made publicly available (open access) once the work of collation, transcription, and verification has been completed and an initial phase of analysis has begun. 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).