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Title: FAIS Family Tree - Looking for relatives from SARDINIA - ITALY. Please assist.
Post by: Kris Nugent on Saturday 25 February 17 22:08 GMT (UK)

Hi,

I have recently joined Ancestry.com to establish my personal family tree (FAIS), see attached. I am currently residing in Australia but my relatives are from Sardinia, Italy. I have been able to find passenger lists (Italy to Australia) and Australian census records for my parents, Benito Mario Antonio Fais & Teresa Seci, but absolutely nothing about my Grandparents or Great-grandparents from Sardinia (they never migrated, unlike my parents). My records search and ancestry hints have been inconclusive and I am at a dead end.

Can anybody please help me in my search from information? Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated.

Warm regards,

Elisabeth

Title: Re: FAIS Family Tree - Looking for relatives from SARDINIA - ITALY. Please assist.
Post by: Kris Nugent on Saturday 25 February 17 23:53 GMT (UK)

Additional Information:

My Paternal Grandparents, Domenico Pietro Fais (1892-1966) & Sabina Piredda (1889-1969) were from Bonarcado, Oristano, Sardegna, Italy.

My Maternal Grandparents, Giovanni Antonio Sechi (1905-1970) & Maria Giuseppa Margherita Ligia (1907-1990)  were from Zeddiani, Oristano, Sardegna, Italy.

I personally visited their gravesites in Sardinia and acquired their birth and death dates from their gravestones in their respective towns.

Title: Re: FAIS Family Tree - Looking for relatives from SARDINIA - ITALY. Please assist.
Post by: jorose on Sunday 26 February 17 11:57 GMT (UK)

You would need to look at civil/church records in Italy.

As luck would have it, some civil records for Oristano are online:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1947719

These are NOT directly searchable by name, you need to look at the original images.  It can be a bit hit and miss what's online, but Bonarcado has some indexes and birth records.  I couldn't see a match for Domenico Pietro Fais (perhaps he was born elsewhere in the area?) but a Maria Sabina Piredda was born in Bonarcado in 1889.

This will hopefully link you to her birth record:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jl2/

Similarily you can look for records in Zeddiani (you'll find it under Cagliari )

Title: Re: FAIS Family Tree - Looking for relatives from SARDINIA - ITALY. Please assist.
Post by: Kris Nugent on Sunday 26 February 17 12:40 GMT (UK)

Thank-you so much for your assistance, jorose. You have been most helpful. Much appreciated.

Warm regards,

Elisabeth

Title: Re: FAIS Family Tree - Looking for relatives from SARDINIA - ITALY. Please assist.
Post by: BAC on Sunday 23 July 17 12:16 BST (UK)

Hi Elisabetta!
I just saw this, I can help you if you are still searching as we are related !

Title: Re: FAIS Family Tree - Looking for relatives from SARDINIA - ITALY. Please assist.
Post by: Kris Nugent on Monday 24 July 17 00:55 BST (UK)

Hi BAC!

Yes, I am still searching. I would love your help and to meet a new relative.  :)

Warm regards,

Elisabetta

Title: Re: FAIS Family Tree - Looking for relatives from SARDINIA - ITALY. Please assist.
Post by: garstonite on Monday 24 July 17 09:42 BST (UK)

www.geneanet.org - 15 results for Ligia  11 are for the village of Zeddiani ,Oristano ,Sardegna

http://www.listelevaoristano.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/162/ruoli-matricolari/RuoliMatricolari/30083

http://www.listelevaoristano.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/162/ruoli-matricolari/RuoliMatricolari/10040

Title: Re: FAIS Family Tree - Looking for relatives from SARDINIA - ITALY. Please assist.
Post by: Kris Nugent on Monday 24 July 17 10:51 BST (UK)

Thanks so much for your input and feedback, garstonite. Much appreciated.  :)