Help with access to digitized record collection Fonte, Treviso

K Sinclair

I have been using the records from the attached collection for Fonte Treviso Veneto Italy. However, the last 4 groups that don’t have a camera icon can’t be viewed on line. Is this a limitation on use outside a Family History Center or the main library in SLC, or some other restriction? I am anxious to see a copy of Giovanni Dal Molin’s birth registration from 01 May 1936 and would like to know where or how the record can be viewed.

Thanks so much for your help

A van Helsdingen

It looks like these records are "born digital", meaning there are no physical microfilms and the only copies that exist are digital.

The absence of a camera icon thus indicates the records are not available. The most likely reason is that there are records that are protected by Italian privacy law. 100 years is the privacy limit in many countries around the world. If that is the case in Italy, each of the unpublished films will be published 100 years after the newest records on the film.

It is possible that by then FS would have worked out a way to split up films. For instance if the records from 1885 were split from the rest of film 5390776, those records could be published immediately.

Cousin Vinny

@A van Helsdingen is correct. Italian privacy law does not allow the public release of birth records until 100 years after the event (70 years for marriage and death records).

To request a 1936 birth record you will need to contact the comune of Fonte directly. And you may be required to provide photo ID as well as demonstrate a direct ancestral link to the person who is the subject of the birth record - they are only supposed to release records to direct descendants. There may also be a fee.

K Sinclair

Thank you both for confirming what I had suspected about limits on birth records being 100 years.

Best regards,

Keir Sinclair