Antenati and the Archivio Storico di Frosinone
The State Archives in Frosinone came into being in 1956. It contains notary records from Notaries who retired more than 100 years ago and dating back to the 1400’s, judicial records, military records, lists, along with some civil records after 1865. It is these civil records that we are most concerned with for genealogy purposes. … Continue reading
Passport records for 1903 for Sora (partial) and Pescosolido
Thanks go to Eugenio Berenger for compiling these lists of persons from Pescosolido who applied for a passport in 1903 in the Province of Frosinone. A partial list of persons from Sora is also shown. Others towns in the Province are listed in the register but we are publishing just these extractions. Since the passport … Continue reading
Finding Foglio Matricolare – Italian Military Records
Finding the military service record for an ancestor can be a great source of satisfaction……or not. Seeing your ancestor labelled as a ‘deserter’ can be a shock but often it just means that they did not return to Italy when called for military service from whichever country they had emigrated to. Refusing to serve meant … Continue reading
How professionals work together.
I just spent a week working in the Province of Frosinone with Janeen Bjork a professional researcher from America. She was working on a huge DNA project involving diverse families whose patriarchs were recruited to work in a stone quarry in Upstate New York. The families came from several towns around my home base. Some … Continue reading
Search of the week – Reuniting family in Castelliri, Frosinone
This weeks’ search had two challenge’s. Finding living relatives and taking the family tree back to the microfilms so Anthony could do some of his own research. Castelliri is a small town on the border of the Vatican States and was formerly known as Castelluccio. Since they were just over the border, and part of … Continue reading
POLSINELLI (Pulsinelli) family of the Province of Frosinone
The Polsinelli family begins with Giovan Giacomo born in 1540 in Arpino. He had five sons, all married but only one had descendants that stayed in Arpino. It was from his son Fabio that all the Polsinelli in Sora, Isola del Liri, and Broccostella etc. descend. Professor Rocco De Cesare (now deceased) of Arpino created … Continue reading
