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From: "James Fuoco" <>
Subject: RE: advice for going to Italy, anyone?
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:18:07 -0500
In-Reply-To: <IOQMd.12$53.0@lakeread07>


Gina, I would suggest you check the church records; they go back hundreds of
years. I just completed a genealogy of my family and hired the services of
a professional genealogist (www.lamiastoria.com). This is the way to go
especially if you have an uncooperative or suspicious priest! You can email
me if you'd like to find out more.
The only other advice I can offer is if you find something you want to buy,
buy it; you may not find it again in another town!

Regards,
James Fuoco (Mignano Montelungo)

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From: Gina DeAngelis [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 3:23 PM
To:
Subject: advice for going to Italy, anyone?

Hi,
I'm going to Italy in a few weeks with my family to meet cousins, etc.
we have already contacted. I would also like to consult some vital
records and have written (in Italian, of course) to the Sindaco of the
town concerned for permission...

I would like to be prepared for this trip and since others on this list
have probably traveled to Italy to do research... any helpful hints?
Things you wish you had thought of before you went? Things you would
have done differently?

I don't speak Italian (only enough to get to the bathroom and order
dinner!), but my mother speaks Abruzzese dialect and a friend of ours in
Italy is willing to translate for us with non-English-speaking relatives.

I would like to find more genealogical information from two towns in la
Marche--the vital records are not available for this province from the
LDS family history centers, and the stato civile has no records before
1866. Does anyone know if that's because la Marche only began civil
records in that year, or are the these records in the state library or
some place where I can see them only in person?

Thanks everyone,
Gina

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