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From: "David E. Zerga" <>
Subject: Re: Caiazzo
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:09:21 GMT


Direttore
Ufficio di stato civile
v Umberto I, 1
81013 Caiazzo (CE)
Italia

The LDS (Mormon) Church has microfilmed the civil records for your town
for the period 1809-1910.

The FHL catalogs can be searched on-line at
http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchcatalog.asp

You can order and view copies of the films at a Family History Center.
Look in your telephone book under Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday
Saints for the address of an FHC near you.

The FHCs are staffed by volunteer workers experienced in genealogical
research.

The Centers are open to all. I visit one in Fresno frequently. I have
never been given materials promoting the religion or solicited to join.

The FHC records provide the added advantage of being a filmed copy of
the original documents. The paper you receive from the Archivio in
Italy is only an abstract of information in the original record.
Valuable
information may be omitted.

Here are some resources that will assist you in reading the records.

1. Cole, Trafford R.
ITALIAN GENEALOGICAL RECORDS, How to Use Italian Civil, Ecclesiastical,
& Other records in Family History Research

ISBN 0-916489-58-2

Ancestry Incorporated
PO Box 476
Salt Lake City UT 84110-0476
(800) 262-3787

The price is about $34.95.

Published in 1995, this book gives an exhaustive treatment of records
sources.

It contains complete translations of many of the most common vital
records forms. There are also sample letters in English and Italian to
use to request records from the civil offices and parish Churches.

If I could have only one book, this is the one I would purchase.

2. Nelson, Lynn
A GENEALOGIST'S GUIDE TO DISCOVERING YOUR ITALIAN ANCESTORS: How to
find and record your unique heritage
Cincinnati: Betterway Books, 1997

ISBN 1-55870-426-4

About $16.99

Much less detail than Cole as to record sources.

Nelson does an excellent job with helping one plan strategies for
finding information.

There are complete translations of many of the records. She includes
forms and checklists for abstracting, recording and organizing data.

Like Cole's book, Nelson has sections with form letters and interpreting
handwriting.

One can 'preview' this book on-line.

http://www.erols.com/lynnn/dyia/main.html

The books may be available at your local public library or branch Family
History Center.

You can order these titles at a discount by using the amazon.com links
at

http://www.jsoft.com/archive/pie/books/

Your purchases help to support the PIE list.

Frank Arduini has a beautiful web site devoted to Italian genealogical
research. He includes complete translations of many of the common civil
record forms.

http://homepage.interaccess.com/~arduinif/index.htm


wrote:
>
> I am looking for the address to write to the Commune (town) of Caiazzo in the
> Province of Caserta, Italy. I am looking for my ancestors birth, death and
> marriage records. Thanks.

--
Very truly yours,

David E. Zerga
SYSOP Genealogia Section,
Compuserve's Italian Forum ITALFOR

POINTer 2230
Fresno, California
Searching ZEREGA, MAGIOLO, CUNEO, FERRETTO, RATTO
Coreglia Ligure and Dezerega, Genova, Liguria

AMERICA- It's A Fine Italian Name

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