EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE GUIDE
Italian Genealogy
Books and Sources
Italian Heritage, Genealogy
and Social Culture Groups
Miscellaneous Resources

BOOKS and SOURCES
"Italian Genealogical Records" How to use Italian Civil, Ecclesiastical, & Other Records in Family History research by Trafford E. Cole
Ancestry Incorporated, USA
 Ancestry Incorporated
P.O. Box 476
Salt Lake City, Utah 84110-0476
"Finding Italian Roots" The Complete Guide for Americans by John P. Coletta, PhD.
Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc.
 Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc.
1001 N. Calvert St.
Baltimore, MD 21202

ON-LINE BOOK SOURCES:

Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co.
 Ancestry On-Line Store

ITALIAN HERITAGE, GENEALOGY
and
SOCIAL CULTURE GROUPS:
These homepages are my favorite resources for Italian genealogy.  The people who created these homepages have worked very hard to provide helpful genealogy tools and this dedication really shows in the results of their work.  I recommend you look at everything on the sites.  Following each website heading, I've tried to list the sub-pages  I think would be especially useful to you.
P.O.I.N.T. Magazine a journal of Italian Genealogy
P.O.I.N.T.= Pursuing Our Italian Names Together
P.I.E. Mailing list     (P.I.E.= Pointer's In E-mail)
P.I.E.  Homepage       POINT is an organization that is separate from the PIE the mailing list group.  The PIE homepage space was generously provided by Tony Cimorelli, to archive the information accumulated by PIE mailing list members. The space is only one small part of Tony's personal website.
Italian Genealogy Homepage (New Zealand)
    I.G.H. Index: webmaster = Tardio
    • Introduction to genealogy
    • Surname database
    • Form letters to Italy
    • See Dennis Piccarillo's 5 step process-"How to get your ancestor's papers from the Immigration and Naturalization Service."
    • Toolbox
    • Research tips and more
    • See the "Family Pages" section and view
      Frank Arduini's Homepage for some very good research tools.
Guilio-On-Line
Ken's Genealogy Homepage webmaster= Ken Johnston
  • See his lists of Italian Occupations
    and his list of Given (first) Names.
*GenSearch: Italy webmaster = Vera Calistro
  • Available for most regions (i.e.  Abruzzo and Molise)
    and provinces except for Puglia.
*ROOTSWEB Main Page
Italian City and Town LOCATORS:
(locate towns by name)
MICRONET: an Italian city, province, region, phone/zip(CAP), locator
In Italian language.
Go down the page to --> "Pagine Gialle Elettroniche" (business directory).
In the lower left corner you will find the "Pagine Bianche" (white pages).
Search by locality, name and zip codes).
Key words:
ricerca= search for
prefisso= prefix code (as in telephone)
cognome= surname
nome= given/first name
numero= number
azienda= business/company
FORTUNA, epicity (formerly called) Italian City Locator
MAPS  Italian place name locators:
  • VIRGILIO MAPPE  Point and click on the area you want to view close-up.
    Or search by place name.
  • INFORMA DOVE  This site is still new and under construction.

    • MISCELLANEOUS
    QUERY BOARDS, MESSAGE BOARDS and BBS (Bulletin Boards):

    GENFORUM   This is a great public genealogy FORUM website that can help you to find other people searching for your family surname.   They have FORUM boards for place names, too.
    Example:   a State like West Virginia or a town name like New York City, N.Y.

    P.I.E. FORUM  PIE Forum is a section of the PIE Homepage where you may ask any genealogy questions.

    *GENCONNECT  Genconnect is a part of the vast ROOTSWEB website. It is a very educational site and has genealogical QUERY boards of many kinds.   These boards are primarily divided by county, state and countries.   Especially good for locating old town names, cemeteries, maps and landmarks.   There are some town pages being built as well.

    NOTE:   See what other wonderful things are being done on the Genconnect and USGenconnect projects.   They have organized a nationwide projects for placing the US Census on-line; transcribing tombstones, old family bibles, some old vital records-special census records, special lists and more.

    SEARCHABLE PUBLIC "FAMILY TREE" DATABASES:
    LDS(Latter Day Saints-Mormons) On-Line Genealogy Database  Excellent resource for everyone in genealogy.   Search by surname, locality, and country. Many, many other helpful "tools" and useful information.

    RootsWeb  Huge database of contributed family information AND of individual member's family genealogy homepages.  This site has mind staggering amount of helpful resources.  Rootsweb has lists upon lists of addresses and URL's for genealogy mailing lists, historical societies, family reunions, maps and more.

    Family History.com  This site is part of the Ancestry.com organization.   CAUTION; only part of this very large website domain is free to search. The Family History.com pages are one of the free areas to search.

    LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS and HISTORICAL SOCIETIES: Don't forget the tremendous resources our country provides in the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institute for locating old books, rare records, recordings, maps and special collections and presentations.  See the Ellis Island presentation.  American Memory collection.   Many of these organizations are now on-line.

    Make use of your local and state libraries genealogy and history selections as well as the many local and state historical societies around the country and the world.

    [Disclaimer: My webpages are not affiliated with
    the websites listed on this page. I do not receive compensation for
    promoting these homepages or publications.]

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