Are you interested in doing research of Italian heritage for yourself, a family member or friend? Join our Italian Research Special Interest Group and learn what records are available online and where to access them, along with strategies for finding that all important town of origin and how to decipher the Italian records.
Italian Research SIG - 3rd Wednesday, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm - On Zoom. Karen LaDuca, SIG Leader kblquilts@comcast.net
Here are some helpful links that may be useful in your Italian research:
- Extensive "Italian Civil Records" handout at the 1st SIG meeting on June 19, 2024 by Karen LaDuca
- antenati.cultura.gov.it - online state archive records for many provincia in Italy.
- familysearch.org - as well as using the record search, look at catalog search for your ancestral town to find all the records for that locale that have not been indexed. And don't forget to check the Research Wiki.
- comuni-italiani.it - useful if you know the name of ancestral town in Italy, but don't know where it is located.
- italia.indettaglio.it - many different types of information on towns in Italy including parishes, surnames, weather, maps, etc.
- cognomix.it - helpful in trying to determine if a surname is found in Italy and where it is found in Italy today.
- conigliofamily.com/SicilianAndItalianOccupations.htm - a good list of historical occupations that translation apps don't always find.
- conigliofamily.com/SicilianAndItalianGivenNames.htm - Italian names and English equivalents.
- conigliofamily.com/LatinSicilianEnglishGivenNames.htm - Latin names and English equivalents.
- italianparishrecords.org/search-by-region - Search by region in Italy to see what parish records are available online.
We need you! We started our monthly Italian Research SIG on June 19, 2024 only on Zoom. That's the 3rd Wednesday at 1pm. Contact Karen and you'll get an email with the Zoom Link to the meeting each month. We meet 10 months of the year, skipping only August and December.
Contact SIG leader Karen LaDuca at kblquilts@comcast.net to join.