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SEARCH YOUR FAMILY HISTORY
How many times at dinner table you heard your family members talk about the village where granpa and granma were originally from.If you are in search of your italian roots and would like to experience where it all began,meting one of researchers in your ancestral town for a day,
maybe the best decision you ever made
A BIT OF HISTORY
Between 1860 and WWI,9.000.000 italians left permanently of a total of 16 millions who emigrated, most from the south and most travelling to North or South America.Two-third of the migrants who left Italy between 1870-1914 were men with traditional skills.Poverty was the main reason for leaving.
Another factor was related to the overpopulation of southern Italy.this created a democraphic boom and forced the new generation to emigrate at the end of 19° century and the begining of the 20° century, mostly to the Americas.
20 milions stopped in Ellis island before finding a new life after a hard trip of 30 days. Most of italians skills men died in two of most important disasters in the history. In the 1907 in Monongah mining 171 italians miners died, they came from Calabria ( S. Giovanni in Fiore) Molise ( Frosolone,Duronia, Bagnoli del Trigno, Torella del Sannio) Abbruzzi ( Atri, Civitella Rovereto, Civita d'Antino, Canistro) and in the 1913 other 146 italians emigrated died in the Dawson disaster, knows nowdays with the name of Ghost town.
The United States was the main destination for italians immigrants, with most first settling in New York metropolitan area, but with other major Italian American Communities developing in Boston,Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, S.Louis, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, S. Francisco & New Orleans but many immigrants went to Canada making them the third-largest ethnic group.Almost 1,000,000 italians reside in the Providence of Ontario making it a strong global representation of the Italian diaspora.
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VISIT YOUR ANCESTRAL TOWN IN ITALY
The day starts at the Municipal Hall where you will be able to sort throug these giant ledgers looking for the birth of your Italy born Ancestor, his siblings, his parents and grandparents. From this process we will be able to record the street addressess where your ancestors lived. Meeting point with the Mayor ( according in advance ) whom will give you all the certifications on the State Archives. Printed documentation ( birth, marriage and when available death records) and other vital records found ( possible address of birth, professions of family members, witnesses at births and marriages, etc).
Photographs of the town, meaningful town buildings and sites,and, if existing, pictures of the homes your ancestors were born in and lived in ( if still standing ) during the 1800s, your assistant or your driver will help you to estasblish a relationship with people that might known your ancestors, maybe meeting on the way or inside a coffe's town.
If you are part italian then it may always have been a dream of yours to visit the italian city that your ancestors once called home and this can be a wonderful way to discover more about your family heritage and culture, even to understand yourserlf travelling to Italy to experince its sights, aromas and textures is, by far, the best way to connect with your italian roots. Have you ever imaginated yourself walking down the street where your ancestor was born? We can make your dream come true!
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