
My Journey to Dual Italian Citizenship
Legacy Tree Genealogists’ Sarah Gutmann was excited to have stumbled upon a record that could potentially change the narrative of her family’s history. In this article, she describes her journey toward dual citizenship to pay homage to her family’s Italian heritage.For eight decades my grandpa believed his father, Joseph Fraggetta was a first-generation American. Despite this claim, I could not find my great grandfather’s 1906 birth record. One day, about 15 years ago, I was poking around on Ancestry.com, and I stumbled across a 1913 passenger list that perfectly aligned with Joseph Fraggetta’s family of origin. This included a seven-year-old boy named Giuseppe Fraggetta.With such an uncommon surname and matching demographics, it seemed too coincidental to be pushed aside. As a genealogist, I was excited to have stumbled upon a record that could potentially change the narrative of my family’s history. I expected Grandpa to be just as pleased and intrigued by my …
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