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Les GENS: Généalogies ethnographiques de Nocario systématisées
(Systematized Ethnographic Genealogies of Nocario)
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).
– The collation, digital reproduction and systematic examination of all the surviving and accessible registers are now complete. The reproductions form the GENS documentary corpus, while the structured records of all baptisms or births, marriages, and burials or deaths form the GENS records database. The latter also includes marriages celebrated in other municipalities of the Orezza Valley when they concern a resident of Nocario. This stage is described in GENS: Completion of the Systematic Examination of Nocario’s Registers.
The reconstruction of individuals and families is continuing in the GENS genealogical database, structured according to the GEDCOM standard. Ultimately, the data will be made publicly available once verification is sufficiently advanced and an initial phase of scientific analysis has begun.
