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Europe / Re: Cassino Tamburrini's
« on: Monday 21 March 11 21:07 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: SBracewell on Monday 28 February 11 06:20 GMT (UK)
I have the daunting task of trying to track down / document my wifes ancestors who hail from Cassino in Italy. This is not an easy task as all BMD records were destroyed in the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944.
Just for your information, a local non-profit historical society called CDSC (Centro Documentazione e Studi Cassinati) is painstakingly putting together the documentation of the city and people from Cassino that got lost during the bombing of the city in WWII.

Their website is all in Italian, but I assume that there must be someone of the members that can correspond in English. I suggest you to send them a couple of lines and see if they can be of any help.

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Births Switzerland>Italy>France late 1870s pattern
« on: Sunday 20 March 11 22:01 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: kohlerkinfinder on Friday 18 March 11 21:47 GMT (UK)
The woman who helped me with the Italian research, a woman here in the U.S., wrote a couple of letters to Vicenza, Henry's stated birthplace, with no result. She said that Henry was probably not born in Vicenza proper, that there were several - probably not the correct word - municipalities - within Vicenza; and, unless I knew exactly where in Vicenza he was born, it was unlikely that I would find out where.
In the province of Vicenza the place with more people called "Petrin" in the phone book is Valdagno. Maybe that could be a place to start...

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Births Switzerland>Italy>France late 1870s pattern
« on: Friday 18 March 11 21:14 GMT (UK)  »
Venice was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866 (after the Austro-Prussian war), therefore Tancredi "Henry" Petrin was Italian by birth.

I wonder whether his birth registration could be found in the historical archives of Venice ...

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Proving an Italian link in London
« on: Friday 18 March 11 21:08 GMT (UK)  »
It should be however taken into account the fact that until 1861 there was no unified Italy, and therefore your ancestor was very likely a subject of one of the many kingdoms in which the Italian peninsula was divided at the time.

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Research about Italians in the UK
« on: Friday 18 March 11 21:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hello everybody,

I found this website while trying to find some ropes on how to trace heirs of persons of Italian descent who died in the UK and left behind their estates.

After watching some episodes of "Heir Hunters" on BBC and finding out that there are quite a handful of Italian (or Italian sounding) family names in the list published in the "Bona Vacantia" website, I have been thinking about how to use my personal experience to track down possible relatives and descendants of the deceased, probably still living in Italy and totally unaware that a distant relative passed away in the UK and left them his earthly belongings.

The problem I have stumbled upon is that there is no trace of birth certificates registered in the GRO index for the majority of names that caught my attention (likely because they were all born abroad), and without knowing their age at death it's impossible to get their death certificate, and with it the precious information that could bring about the whereabouts of their respective place of origin and surviving relatives.

I am therefore willing to help any probate researcher who would like to join forces with me in unearthing connections between the deceased and their estranged families.

Best regards to all,
Arturo.

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