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Long Distance Italian Genealogy Research

Shellee Morehead, PhD, CG
Oct 18, 2019
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Introduction
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History
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Finding the Italian Hometown
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Potential Problems
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Italian Records Online
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Italian Church Records
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Italian Civil Records
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About this webinar

Learn how to make the most of online Italian records, and learn methods for searching the unindexed, digital images to find your ancestors. With Italian ancestry, the most important genealogical fact that you need to get into records in Italy is the name of your ancestor’s hometown. Since many of us can’t get to Italy to visit our ancestral towns, gathering information about our ancestors from afar is the next best thing. With the name of your hometown in hand, a little luck, and a lot of patience, you can search Italian records from home, online at midnight in your pajamas. In this lecture, you'll discover some of the main genealogical record groups that are available online for Italian research.

 

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Shellee Morehead, PhD, CG
Shellee Morehead, PhD, CG, has a Ph.D. in evolutionary ecology from the University of Utah and is an associate professor of Biology at the New England Institute of Technology. She was certified by BCG in 2012, and researches, writes and lectures o
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