Just to let everyone know - the European Vital Records are on a CD rom from the LDS just like the British Vital records. They have different disks for different parts of Europe. Italy has 1 disk (Spain has 6) so you can see the wide variation in the data collected. There are large parts of Italy which have no information on the disk so it's very hit and miss on what you get. >From what I have seen there is more info from the north than the south. They only have birth/baptism records and marriage records - nothing on deaths. Some records are better than others with some giving the grandfathers of bride and groom as well as the parents. If anyone is thinking of buying it but wants to know how many records there are with a particular name let me know and I'll check. It's definitely only a fraction of info the LDS has microfilmed because there are no records from the villages my family came from and yet I have looked through about a dozen rolls of microfilm of b/m/d records at the LDS from these villages. The info from the microfilm is not on the website either so if you know (or suspect) the village/area your family are from go to the LDS site and then go to the library catalogue and put in the village and it will come up with a list of films they have available and which your local LDS can borrow. Most of the records I have seen seem to be between 1810 and 1865 but if you have an unusual family name you'll probably be interested in any people with that name even if you can't fit them into your family at the moment. Although the records are in Italian it is fairly easy to pick up the format of the information and then it's easy to flip through the records looking for the surname and then copying down the details only from the records you want. NB the format changed 3 or 4 times over that timespan. Carla (Scotland)