Sicilian Civil Records

As in most of the rest of Italy, births, marriages, and deaths were recorded in Sicily by the civil authorities beginning in 1820. These records are called Napoleonic records because they begin at the close of the Napoleonic era. The birth records are exceptionally complete; they contain not only the name of the child, the date of birth, and the parents, but also the maiden name of the mother ( and sometimes the mother's father name), and the day and hour of the birth. In Polizzi Generosa these records have been microfilmed by the LDS for the years 1820 through 1910, and are available for rental through local Family History Centers.
Church records began in Sicily, as in most of Catholic Europe, begin around 1590. In Polizzi Generosa they have been very difficult to access.