Direito à cidadania italiana: um estudo nos instrumentos de pesquisa do Archivio di Stato di Ferrara na Itália e do Arquivo Público do estado do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The research for the right to the italian citizenship is very evident, people who have this right must collect documents that prove faithfully their ancestry to the Italian country. This search for the documents may become tiring, because they are saved in many different archives and organized in different ways, causing the loosing of information and an exaggerated retard to conclude the process. The italian and brazilian archives have the documents that will be used for the search. The organization of the documents must serve to the users and researchs that need the documents, even if it’s for citizenship, academic researches, for knowledgement about immigration or just to know about the habits of the past. The researcher uses the research instruments to visualize the information before to consult the archive. These instruments must be arranged to the genealogic information be organized and clear to the researcher. The Archivio di Stato di Ferrara, in Italy, has online instruments that available to the researcher the information. The Arquivo Público do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, works to the information be described to attend the researchers that goes to the hall to consult about family’s genealogy. Overall, the main objective of the institution is to available the archivistic information through the research instruments for the objectives be concluded with success.