Abruzzo Genealogy

Professional genealogist and family heritage guide in Abruzzo Italy

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

@ShamrockGen there is always the age of bride and groom, their place of birth and name of the parents, and that's always been more than enough to produce a marriage extract, but not for the office worker I met...

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

After a decade of working with Italian municipalities for certificates, I faced a first today. A clerk can't produce a marriage extract due to no birth dates on the act - a common trait in old registers. Is it ignorance or work evasion? Quite baffled!

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

Smart: Gain insights from the trees shared by other users.

Dumb: Copy from shared trees without verifying sources and making necessary checks.

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

How much does genetic inheritance matter about what we are?

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

Visiting the grave of Avigdor Perets Kosowski, my grandmother’s grandfather, in the old Jewish cemetery of Czestochowa, Poland. I got 1/16 of my genes from him. How much does genetic inheritance matter?

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

I found this interesting https://t.co/VH3YxY8fKR

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

Interesting articles in the 'Italian American Review', currently available for free on JSTOR.
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[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

Everyone is a king at doing something, maybe we found an explanation
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[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

Still not bad for Italy 🇮🇹

[Vasilis Dalianis @VasilisDalianis]

The world’s healthiest countries: 6 of the top 10 are in Europe. Spain 🇪🇸 is the number 1 and Italy 🇮🇹 number 2 https://t.co/9d6cMC1xaE

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

It's never easy to explain to people that have other family origins why Italians do all those "strange things" 🙂. After the Running Virgin Mary of... https://t.co/ZjuhlRp6ZR

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

It's always fun getting to know local people in towns and having someone collaborating to find information about a family. This time the research of possible relatives involved also the help of local police. Hope nobody got worried when they rang the bell!

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

It is well known that we Italians have many and original local traditions and that they are very important for us. The Virgin Mary running through the square of Sulmona on Easter morning is for sure one of the... https://t.co/XJVek9m942

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

Many genealogy records still cannot be found online. Sometimes they even cannot be found where they are intended to be, in archives. This time they were kept by a private company, waiting for the archive to... https://t.co/WSYHW4yqEy

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

I have bad news for you, you've been spelling the most common Italian first name the wrong way! Online genealogy records are already full enough of this mistake. This is the best teacher that I found online (at least for the... https://t.co/QiPYKPaXwc

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

A full and intense day passed discovering the traces of Dana's ancestors in an ancient village made of stone under a windy blue sky and finished toasting with new friends and some great homemade local wine... https://t.co/0wgxodK8Ca

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

Wishing we'll be able to get amazed again by the beauty of this city that tries to rise again after the terrible earthquake of 10 years ago. https://t.co/x8XMePWI3r

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

We are already used to be listed in this kind of charts, but it's always good to see two Abruzzese... https://t.co/gWQm24fUb9

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

Frosolone was (and is) world famous for the production of blades, and when researching family history there, it is quite easy to find ancestors that were knifemakers or scissor makers. This was also the case of... https://t.co/eh6wYQYAbx

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

Thanks to the special openings and events organized by the Italian National Trust (FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano), yesterday in Castel Frentano (Chieti) we met Mr. Tonino Primiterra. Before retiring, Mr. Tonino... https://t.co/3w7M7WIT5A

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

Spring started - even if still a bit chilly here - and also our special Guided Ancestry Tours are in full swing! Here are some shots from the tour we made yesterday with Pam and Katie, two very nice girls from the US, researching Pam's family origins.

[Abruzzo Genealogy @AbruzzoGen]

Visiting Italy this year and not knowing enough Italian? Make sure you have a local guide to assist you and translate so that you can make out the most out of your "Italiano" experience.... https://t.co/XF1WMqgNbd