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Subject: Positive Web research
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:21:10 EDT

My own research has blossomed profusely because of the web.
Personally, thanks to the web :
1. I have been able to go back to the 1700s with 3 lines....through a
connection I made on a mailing list who was also researching in my ancestral
town.
2. My first week on the web several years ago, via an italian bulletin
board I connected with a young college girl who shared one of my surnames.
She went to the town hall for me and provided the link I needed to go back
further.
3. I have found location of the birth place of my grandmother on my other
side. The information shared on the mailing lists was crutial to my success.
There was a registry web site for the family name (Moraca) and with the help
of other researchers I was able to slowly put the clues together and find the
town.
4. I have established a web site and a registry for one of my towns
(Sciacca, Sicily)and there are over 30 researchers there....sometimes
providing clues...sometimes discovering they are cousins.
5. Through a bulletin board on Ancestry.com I found TWO second
cousins...lots of information has been shared...and we are soooo pleased to
find each other. 2nd cousins are very close with this line as my dad was an
only child.
That is some of my success ....just off the top of my head!!!
I hope you pursue all the avenues provided by the web Paggie and others.
There are a lot of helpful people out there and a lot of resources.
Good Luck!!!!!
Regards,
Gita Dyer

>>>>>>>>>>>
sdr writes:
Hi Paggi
The web is somewhat helpful for research but unless you get real lucky like
finding someone who is also looking for the same family. The web will never
get
the job done.
Many years down the road the web maybe helpful. The only way you can
research
properly is go to Italy or go to your local Mormon Church and to their
Family
History Center[FHC]. They have volunteers that can get you started. It is
not
necessary to be a Mormon to use the service it is also very inexpensive. I
have
searched my family back to the 1730 using the FHC. The web has been of
little
help I did meet a 3rd cousin and he has given be a few names. The web is
great
if you make a contact like I did. The FHC has the best recedes in the world
from
all over the world on microfilm from church and civil records. The data is
in
Italian listed by year for a given community and contains birth marriages
and
death's from 1809 to the early 1900's in some cases. You read the film on
the
FHC readers and keep the records. I would suggest to keep the data in a
computer
program and there are many available. The following website can be of some
help
,<www.ancestry.com> browse the site it has a lot of data . I work as a
volunteer
at a FHC in Los Altos California and I am not a Mormon. You have 3 countries
involved so you will need all the help you can get. I suggest you keep good
records and stay organized it is a lot of work but fun once you start.
Ciao Steve and Ginny Della Rocchetta


Paggi Horacio wrote:

> I'm investigating the italian roots of my family, and I decided that the
> web was the most suitable way for it. My father was Pedro Paggi,
> Argentinian. My grand father was "Pedro Paggi" (Pietro Paggi ), born in
> Uruguay, South America, the 3rd of September of 1881, my great
grandfather
> was an Italian man named Pietro Paggi, born by 1843, and my great
> grandmother, Ramona Damboriarena, who was Spanish. Moreover, my great
> great grandfather was "Juan Pedro Paggi" - as it was written in the
> documents-that is, Gianpietro Paggi, who was married with Catalina
> Imberti (Italian too, of course). I don't have information about the exact
> place where my great grandfather born or the day of it, but I'm almost
sure
> he was born in Bergamo or Sondrio, and I know he left Italy and moved to
> Argentina, South America, in the 1800's. The main goal of this research
is
> to find out the place and date of bith of my ancestors (it is sad not to
> know where our old relatives came from), which, altogether with many
other
> data I have, would give me a complete background of the past of my
family.
> >>
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