
Struggling to Find Your Italian Ancestors? How to Navigate Italian Archives.
From Jersey Shore to Postiglione: Finding Italian Ancestors You never know when and where your Italian ancestors will show up. How one genealogist found her Italian ancestors on a most unusual family vacation. It was the summer of 2016. As was my extended family's tradition, we rented a house at the Jersey Shore for a week in the summer. As is the goal of all family vacations, the hope is to create new memories and forge stronger connections between members. That is why my family could not comprehend why I suddenly chose to spend a week devoted to the beach in my room with the air conditioner on full-blast. Honestly, I had come intending to spend hours with them on the sand. But that was before I received THE text message. It was from my genealogist friend, Cath. She had BIG news. The records from my ancestral Italian village, Postiglione, were available on Portale Antenati, the Italian Archives website. This was different from the kind of notification you dismiss …
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