Hi everybody, For over a year I have been trying to get hold of a copy of the complete records for Como in Italy. I live on the island of Ibiza and there is no Family History Center anywhere near here. Thanks to a volunteer in Utah I have been able to get quiet a few Birth, death and marriage records for my family Desio. However I still have many things to check out. I wrote to the FHL to see if it was possible to buy a copy of the records so I could check them myself, the answer was that I needed to be a Genealogical Soc. to be able to obtain them. I am willing to copy out the full records for everyone that like myself can't get to a FHC but need ideas of how to get hold of a copy Ruth

Hi Ruth, Behind the scenes here at the list, the plans are shaping up for our Anglo-Italian Family History Society. We've got a chair, vice-chair, treasurer, marketing coordinator, surname index coordinator, societies liaison officer to serve until we are in a position to have proper elections (we still need more hands, particularly a membership secretary, so if anyone wants to step forward...). We're working on a constitution, then we can open a bank account, then we can start recruiting members. Meanwhile material is being compiled for the website, the first draft of which should be up within the next week or so. We are also sounding out various institutions about holding our yet-to-be-assembled research collection. So by our first meeting on 4 May we should be a fully fledged society. If you can hold on till then, maybe we can help you to obtain the films? You could be head of our transcription projects... Elaine Acting chair > Hi everybody, > For over a year I have been trying to get hold of a copy of the complete > records for Como in Italy. I live on the island of Ibiza and there is no > Family History Center anywhere near here. Thanks to a volunteer in Utah I have > been able to get quiet a few Birth, death and marriage records for my family > Desio. However I still have many things to check out. I wrote to the FHL to > see if it was possible to buy a copy of the records so I could check them > myself, the answer was that I needed to be a Genealogical Soc. to be able to > obtain them. I am willing to copy out the full records for everyone that like > myself can't get to a FHC but need ideas of how to get hold of a copy > Ruth > > > ==== ANGLO-ITALIAN Mailing List ==== > Italian Research > http://www.dreamwater.net/anglersrest/Italian.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >