I subscribed to this newsletter & find some of the things worth sharing. If you want to subscribe too, there are instructions at the end of this letter! Cheryl Pillar ---------- > From: Family Tree Finders <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Family Tree Finders Tuesday July 6, 1999 > Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 7:00 AM > > > > FAMILY TREE FINDERS > Tuesday - 6 July 1999 > (Bonus Issue) > > Getting Started in Italy > > Recently I have received a number of questions in regards to > Italian research. Most of them are asking for help with what is > available online. If you are hoping to discover vital records > and civil registration cites online, you will be disappointed. > > If you are looking for some guidance in researching your > Italian family history, then you will be pleased with what is > available. Here are some web sites that will include you > information about others doing Italian research, as well as > how-to articles and links to other site: > > -- Arduini & Pizzo: An Italian-American Family History > http://homepage.interaccess.com/~arduinif/ > -- The Italian Genealogy HomePage http://www.italgen.com/ > -- Italian Genealogy? Start Here > http://www.daddezio.com/index.html > -- PIE Pursuing Our Italian Names Together in E-mail > http://www.cimorelli.com > -- Radici - The Italian Genealogy Webclub > http://www.initaly.com/gene/ (this web site is a membership > service) > > Generally before you can pursue your Italian family history, > you will need to determine the town they were born in. The > records you are most likely to use in your Italian research are > civil registration and these are on the commune (or town) > level. > > One word of caution, it is possible that in the researching of > passenger lists, naturalization records, death records and > family resources that you will discover the name of the > franzione (the village). While this is good information, you > will need to do a little more research to discover what > commune the franzione is part of. A search of an atlas or > gazetteer should help you determine what civil division you > have. And the gazetteer might help you in determining the > commune if you have indeed discovered the franzione. > > Once you have the commune, you will then want to turn your > attention to the Family History Library Catalog. Civil > registration records for many of the communes have been > microfilmed by the Family History Library. You can check > the FHLC to see if they have been able to microfilm the civil > registration for the area you need. > > Word of warning, these records will be in Italian and perhaps > in Latin. To aid you in this research, you will want to visit the > FamilySearch web site where you can find the Family History > SourceGuide which contains about one hundred research > outlines and other aids. These include word lists for Italian > and Latin. You can access the SourceGuide at > http://www.familysearch.org/sg/ . > > A good book that is extremely useful when researching your > Italian ancestry is "Italian Records" by Trafford Cole. This > book is published by Ancestry, Inc. You can read more about > it by visiting the Ancestry web at http://www.ancestry.com > and selecting the Software and Books. "Italian Records" can > be found under "International and Ethnic" in the screen that > appears. > > > > > Rhonda R. McClure > [email protected] > > If you know someone who is interested in genealogy, > please forward this entire message to them! > ___________________________________________________________ > SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION > > TO SUBSCRIBE: send an e-mail to: > [email protected] > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Don't hit 'Reply', instead send a new e-mail from > your subscription address: [email protected] to: > > [email protected] > > At the site you can change your address, cancel or join: > http://209.85.48.168/cgi-bin/gt/login.html > > Difficulties? email:[email protected] > ___________________________________________________________ > Copyright 1998 by SodaMail. All rights reserved. > http://www.sodamail.com > >