Napoleonic civil registration was introduced in Italy in 1806, after the fall of many regions to imperial France, and remained in place until 1815. The keeping of civil registration by the communities of that time has produced a series of records of births, marriages, and deaths, in duplicate, which, depending upon the time and place…

After meeting him and exchanging some information about our common Civitella ancestors from Guardiagrele, Italy, I wanted to interview Thomas C. Civitello because I found very interesting and worthy of being shared the way how, by chance, he started to be interested in his family history and started a methodic research that led to good…