Fortify Your Family Tree

I've made it clear in my welcome message that I never trust someone else's family tree if they don't show their sources and I c...

Somewhere along my genealogical travels I found out that my great grandmother's mother—who never came to America—was named Maria Luigia...

When I first started researching my Italian ancestors after spending my honeymoon in Italy, I couldn't understand how they left such a ...

Have you ever looked at a document in your family tree, let's say a census sheet, and realized you also need a family that lived on the...

Here's a lesson that supports my earlier post, " How Is That Possible? " When my recent post about Italian marriage records ...

I've shown you some birth, death and marriage records from the Napoleonic era in Italy. These were somewhat easy to read because they us...