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Looking for Italian roots?

I discovered an Italian genealogy research outfit today, and thought I’d share a link. Initially I emailed Cherrye at My Bella Vita about some research interests because I know she does Heritage Tours...

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The Baroness will see you now: Family history

Just looking at this Italian birth record should convince you to hire a professional for Italian genealogy! Image from Wikimedia Commons. I’m getting revved up for my trip to Italy in a few months, and...

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Italian shoes: Legacy of my ancestors

Designer shoes from Taormina. I hired Roots in the Boot to research my family roots in Scigliano (Calabria), and learned that I come from a long line of shoemakers!! Every Gualtieri ancestor of my...

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Thinking of hiring some Italian family research?

Here’s a video from ItalyMondo, showing some of what is involved with a family history search in Italy. I’m hoping for some similar experiences in Calabria this summer–If only my Italian were as good...

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Nugenzie: A genealogical mystery solved!

Symbol of the town of Bianchi, my great-grandfather’s birthplace. When my sister and I began looking into our roots years ago, we were given information by various family members. Someone–perhaps it...

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Digging at the roots in Calabria

Vern (with hat), Glenn, and I exploring Calabria. After a week in Venice in August, we headed to Calabria for the week of Ferragosto and a visit to my ancestral village, Scigliano. For the first time,...

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Where Francesco’s life began: Palinudo

In family history, every answer, every discovery, prompts a new question or search. My great-grandfather, Francesco Aruri, was born in Serra di Piro, and “frazione” or hamlet near Bianchi, Calabria, in...

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Where are you from?

Italians have a long and strong memory of place. My family’s ancestral village is Scigliano, but my great-grandmother left there about 115 years ago. Only a handful of her hundreds of descendants have...

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Another generation of Christmas torcetti

This year marks a very special milestone for my family–the birth of our first grandchild. And though she is too young to eat any, I look forward to making some torcetti while I am visiting my daughter...

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A family history surprise in great-grandma’s will

My mother found a copy recently of a will made by my great-grandmother, Josephine (Gualtieri) Arcuri in August of 1927. At that time my grandmother, Mary Nancy (Arcuri) Sanders was twenty years old,...

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