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Research in Other Countries => Europe => Topic started by: sharonboon on Tuesday 27 April 10 11:18 BST (UK)
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Would anyone be able to recoomend any good resources that are available in order to track my Italian relatives. I have Ancestory and it doesnt help me much the IGI isnt helping me either. I would be looking for births and marriages around the 1840's - 1860's.
Thanks
Sharon.
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Do you know where in Italy they lived?
http://www.italiangen.org/Colebio.stm
http://genealogy.about.com/od/italy/a/family_tree.htm
http://www.daddezio.com/genealogy/italian/records/index.html
etc.
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Hi
Albertina who married Jerome Cavazzi was born in Parma in 1851 i have little else to go on and Jerome was born in Piacenza. From what i can put together they came to Newcastle i presume married as i cant find any UK weddings for them and started off a life in Newcastle.
Thanks
Sharon.
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Hiya Sharon....there`s a slight possibility they may have landed in Liverpool.. http://www.scottiepress.org/projects/litaly.htm
Have a look and see if any families ring a bell....it`s a great read anyway......allan ;)
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Hi Allen,
Thanks for that it was interesting to read although none of my Giordanos or Cavzzi were mentioned :( it was interesting about the mosaics, as one of my relatives were mosiac workers too. Do you know if they would only sail from Italy to Liverpool or would Newcastle be a post too?
Thanks
Sharon.
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Hiya Sharon....sorry , but I don`t know....I would have thought Newcastle was trade - whereas Liverpool had trade and passenger ships ,you`ll have to see if someone may be able to answer you ....allan :)
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If Albertina was born in 1851, then in Italy you will not find her birth certificate, as records in Archives started to be collected around 1860.
You can find her baptisme act, but only if you know in which parish this happened...
Instead, you can find her marriage act, because she surely was more than 9 yrs old when she got married, so this act will be registered in the Archivio di Stato.
Usually marriages took place in the maiden town, so you should look in Parma first.
Try to contact Parma's Stato Civile, and send them an enquiry with your ancestors data.
This will be enough if they got married in Parma, but if Albertina originally came from the towns surrounding Parma, you'll have to ask to the Archivio di Stato of Parma.
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Hi Sharon
Did you get the name Jerome from UK census as it doesn't seem like an Italian name theres no J in the Italian alphabet. This is just a thought perhaps its something you hadn't thought about.
Regards Lynne
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Hi Sharon
Me again just looked at the 1911 census & I could see his name spelt as Jerolamo so more than likely its Gerolamo.
Lynne
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Hi Everyone
I have a couple of variations for Jerome, Girolamo and Gerolamo, interesting about not having a J in their alphabet. Also very interesting about the birth records not being available before 1860 (archives). The records that i have of Albertino and Jerome are not consistent in Albertinos birth place. 1911 says Palma and the the 1891 says Piaenza (need to brush up on my georgraphy)
Thank so much for all your help
Sharon.
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Just one more thing for now - if i contacted Archivio di stato of Parma for details about their marriage would Jeromes name and only Albertina (no surname) be enough information for them to go on - i can assume only dates.
Thanks you are all so kind
Sharon.
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Hi Sharon, one more site to look at:
http://italiangenealogy.tardio.com/index.php
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sharonboon
Have you tried www.familysearch.org
the Mormons have films of births,deaths and marriages for many places in Italy.
You may be able to find a Family History Centre near where you live and once you order a film you have to go there to view the actual records.
I was trying to copy a link for you but at the moment the site seems to be on maintanence and is on the 'go slow'
If you want to try later log into the site scroll down on the home page to where it says 'Find a Family history Centre' type in where you live it will bring up a list of the nearest FHC to where you live.
to get to the list of films available you click on 'Library' then on the drop down menu choose Library catalogue click on that then choose 'key word search' now type in the comune/place in Italy you are wanting to search click again and it will take you to another page with the name of the place if its in their records and if you look up in the top right hand corner you will see a box saying 'films available' click on that and it will bring up a list of all the years of birth death marriage records that they have films available to hire.
Hope this helps
Emmy(Genos)