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Heritage
Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in U.S. Birth Records
When your ancestors settled in America, many of the important events that happened in their lives and their families’ lives…
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Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in U.S. Death Records
A death record will be the most recent record available for your ancestor. There are several types of records available…
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Discovering La Famiglia: Finding Your Family in U.S. Marriage Records
When your ancestors settled in America, many of the important events that happened in their lives and their families’ lives…
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Discovering La Famiglia – Finding Your Family in U.S. Military Records
You may not have thought about using U.S. military records to find out more about an Italian-born ancestor, so in…
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Discovering La Famiglia – Finding Your Family in U.S. Census Records
Using U.S. Census records to discover your Italian ancestor’s early life in America can be both exhilarating and frustrating! Census…
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Discovering La Famiglia – Finding Your Family in Immigration Records
Last month we looked at ship manifests; this month we will explore U.S. immigration records. We are focusing on immigration…
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Discovering La Famiglia – Finding Your Family Surname in a Ship Manifest
We were very excited to introduce to you last month our new column, Discovering La Famiglia. The column’s author, Roslyn…
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Discovering La Famiglia – Starting Your Italian American Family History Journey
Learning about your ancestors can be extremely interesting and extremely frustrating at the same time, but I can tell you…
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Creative Ways to Use Social Media to Find Your Italian Roots
Many Italian Americans are becoming interested in discovering more about their Italian roots, but they may have been overlooking a…
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History & culture
How Did Your Italian Family Get Its Name (Cognome)?
If you are like me, you may have wondered how your family got its surname or cognome in Italian. I…
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