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Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in Italian Civil Marriage Records (Part 6)
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Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in Italian Civil Marriage Records (Part 6)

March 2019 |
Last month we started exploring Italian civil marriage records and now we are ready to do a deep dive into translating one. The format and availability of a civil marriage record will vary from village to village depending upon the time period of...
Little Italy: Chicago
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Little Italy: Chicago

February 2019 |
Little Italy, talvolta chiamata University Village, è un quartiere nel Near West Side di Chicago, delimitato da Ashland Avenue a ovest, Morgan Street a est, Eisenhower Expressway a nord e Roosevelt Road a sud. Oggi  la comunità è composta da...
Roslyn was able to quickly track down the date of her paternal grandparents' marriage (Nicola Torella and Pasquala D'Onofrio) by searching the indexes of the years before their first known child was born. In this 1863 marriage index for the village of Pietrabbondante, Italy, the marriages are arranged by groom's surname and show the name of the bride, the names of the groom's parents, the day and month of the marriage, and the record number.
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Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in Italian Civil Marriage Records (Part 5)

February 2019 |
This month we are exploring Italian civil marriage records. Of all the civil records available, it is my opinion that these can be the most challenging to research and translate. However, they are also very valuable in terms of the genealogical...
Little Italy: Cleveland
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Little Italy: Cleveland

January 2019 |
This year, La Gazzetta Italiana is excited to feature Little Italy’s all over the country. And where better place to start than in our hometown of Cleveland! Cleveland’s Little Italy centers around the historic section of Mayfield Rd. and Murray...
Roslyn tested with Ancestry.com and was surprised to see that she inherited a "french connection" from her German/Croatian mother. Her Southern Italy DNA mostly came from her father whose Molise family lines she can trace back to the early 1700s. She received a small portion of her Italian DNA from her mother's side as the Italian DNA encompasses part of present-day Croatia.
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Discovering La Famiglia: DNA Testing for Family History Research

January 2019 |
This month was are taking a break from Italian civil records and are going to investigate DNA testing as I am guessing some of you may have received test kits as gifts last month. Types of DNA TestsThere are three main types of kits sold for...
Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in Italian Civil Records (Part 4)
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Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in Italian Civil Records (Part 4)

December 2018 |
This month we are exploring Italian civil death records. We are doing a deep dive into a typical Italian death record so when you are looking at your own ancestor’s record, you will know exactly what to look for, even if you are not fluent in...
Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in the Portale Atenati
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Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in the Portale Atenati

November 2018 |
In the last few months we have explored the most common Italian civil records and did a deep dive into Italian birth records, however, before we dive into the other common records such as death and marriage records, I wanted to introduce you to...
This month, Roslyn does a deep dive on reading and translating Italian civil birth records like this one, her second great-grandmother's. Some civil records also contain baptismal information, usually found in the right margin like you see in this record.
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Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in Italian Civil Records (Part 3)

October 2018 |
This month we are continuing our look at Italian civil birth records with a deep dive into a typical Italian birth record so that when you are looking at your own ancestor’s record, you will know exactly what to look for even if you are not fluent...
This facsimile of an Italian Civil Birth Record from the Family Search Research Wiki makes learning how to translate an Italian record much easier.
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Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in Italian Civil Records (Part 2)

September 2018 |
Last month you were introduced to the types of civil records available, the history of civil records and where to locate online records. This month our focus is on how to search through digitized record books, basic research tips and sources for...
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