Notarial records — where to find them free
Contracts, wills, inventories and property transfers witnessed by a notary — dense with names and relationships.
Public archives Provara searches for notarial records
Civil registration (birth, marriage, death), church books, population registers, notarial and tax rolls, militia — 207 archives
How to ask
In Provara, ask Provara whether a notarial record names an ancestor. With web search on, it searches this archive in one call, reads the best hits, and proposes only what the record it read supports — with the record beside the claim.
Start freeEvery licence on these pages was read from the archive's own terms on the date shown. Provara proposes only what a record it has read supports, shows the record beside the claim, and marks anything unsourced as a hypothesis. Nothing on this page states a fact about any person.