An absolute MUST HAVE if you are going to be viewing microfilmed records!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #175582 in Books
• Published on: 1997-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

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Customer Reviews

One of the best out for overall Italian Genealogy Research
One of our PIEsani has just published a book.
Lynn Nelson has written:
A Genealogists Guide to Discovering Your Italian Ancestors.
The book focuses on "using Italian vital records to climb your family tree".

146 pages of Lots of where to start and what to look for, and how to compare documents for validity.
Included is a history of Italy, and has tables with the Regions, Modern Provinces and the Pre-Unification Names, as well as maps.
She discusses Italian naming traditions.
There is a typical day in the life of a 19th century peasant.

A chapter focuses on how to determine your ancestors hometown using Census Records, Ships Passenger Lists, Naturalization Documents, and others.

Another chapter depicts the best tips for using the Stato Civile, deciphering Italian handwriting, reading and understanding the Atto di Nascita, marriage, death, marginal annotations, etc.

How to use the Family History Library is detailed.
There is an Italian letter writing guide, Italian-English word list (occupations, months of year, numbers, genealogical terms...), and all the addresses of the Italian Archivio di Stato (8 pages).

My favorite is a step by step example of researching a relative, through verbal interviews, FHL records, a checklist, and other research tools. Highlights include side by side comparisons of original Italian documents (birth certificates, marriage certificates, etc) with the English translations.

Well written and a good research tool, now in my arsenal of books.
WELL DONE LYNN!!! (except you forgot to list PIE - oooopppps)
Even has a web page with forms (FREE) to download.
http://www.erols.com/lynnn/dyia/main.html

Tony Cimorelli
Webmaster for PIE
Pursuing Our Italian Names Together In Email

Simply the biggest help I've had to unlocking my past
In one concise, well written book, Ms. Nelson has made researching an Italian family possible by giving simple, yet to-the-point directions to finding, reading, and understanding the documents and thought processes which will help you find your family.It helps make the past make sense,and is sized so that you can carry it with you to your research sites.

The best for Italian research
It has been one year since I started researching my Italian Ancestors and this was the first book I purchased. It was so easy to follow and helped me tremendously in reading the birth certificates, to write letters in Italian and to understand where to search.