Researching your Italian ancestors is not as difficult as you might think! Dan Niemiec explains the easiest ways to find their town(s) of origin in Italy, using Italian civil and online records.
Dan also shows you how to find which Italian records are available on FamilySearch. Finally, he introduces Italian civil records and how to find the genealogy data buried inside them.
Dan Niemiec has been the genealogy correspondent for Fra Noi since 2004 and has given well over 100 presentations on Chicago or Italian research, among other topics. He has spent over 30 years tracing his Italian ancestors back to the mid-1600s, and by tracing the descendants of those ancestors, he has connected to well over 90,000 relatives and counting.
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