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Italian Passports – a good source of information? Not always.
Anyone who is lucky enough to have their Grandfather’s Italian passport would expect that the name, parents’ names, date and place of birth would be as accurate as it could get. And yet, in the past couple of years I have found this not to be the case. From 1869, passports were required to leave … Continue reading
Sins of the father….the story of Anna
Stories about women are rare so I would like to take a few minutes of your time to focus on a kind of heroine. One who went against the culture and traditions of the time. A young woman whose true story we will never know, but one that we can imagine, based on various documents … Continue reading
When records can’t be found.
Morgan was having difficulty locating records for his ancestral town of San Lazzaro in Campania and asked for help. The first thing to do is to check the Family Search catalogue. Nothing there! Next stop is a Google search for Comune di San Lazzaro. In the list is a item ‘La frazione di San Lazzaro … Continue reading
Legal assistance for dual citizenship and inheritance issues
We have been seeing an increase in dual citizenship applications and really felt we needed to offer clients some help with difficult applications or refusals. We are lucky to have found Avv. Norma Cecconi who lives in Rome and is a lawyer with experience in the field of immigration and citizenship requests and in dealing … Continue reading
Italian/Albanian ancestry? We can help!
Please welcome Giuseppe ‘Baffa’ to our team. Giuseppe has a degree in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. He has published many papers and books on various issues related to Arbëresh culture and tradition, which he knows very well. In addition to being interested in Albanian culture, he is an arbëresh living in Santa Sofia d’Epiro, … Continue reading
The battle against epidemics in the 1800’s
With all the hype about today’s epidemic of the Coronavirus I couldn’t help rereading a book written and researched by the schoolchildren of Sora 10 years ago about the fight against epidemics in the 1800’s. I have translated and extracted some of the more interesting information for your entertainment. The two big epidemics of the … Continue reading
Finding Achille
Alistair Goold came to me with a desperate plea for help. With the help of an Italian lawyer he had exhausted all known avenues to locate the birth record of his GGFather without which he could not get his Italian citizenship. He sent me a list of the archives they had searched without success. Filomena … Continue reading
How to search the Family Search on-line images.
You would think the same rules would apply as those I wrote about for the Antenati site and they do but only up to a point. Family Search uploaded their films as they appear in the catalogue. Meaning that if the reel holds more than one type, or year, of records, they all come up … Continue reading
How to search the Antenati site
The ‘search’ function on Ancestry, family search and the Antenati site is a place to start but don’t be discouraged if it doesn’t produce any results. The indexing project is far from complete and even though ‘your’ names may appear to come up in the search it doesn’t mean they are the right family. Sometimes … Continue reading
Seasons Greetings
Seasons Greetings for 2020 Thanks to you we have had our best year ever with 124 projects conducted in 64 different towns. We have seen increases in the Province of Latina and Campania and Isernia but the bulk of requests are still in the Province of Frosinone. This year I would like to introduce Serena … Continue reading
Customised Italian genealogical research
