A remark about how we should name locations in Abruzzo for our genealogy purposes Currently the Abruzzo region includes four provinces (L’Aquila, Teramo, Chieti and Pescara) and 305 municipalities (“comuni”). To know more about them please take a look at our database. However, the current situation is the result of many changes that have taken…
The following are the notaries for the area of Guardiagrele. Please note that notaries of an area drew up deeds also for people of other towns, that used to apply to him, and the notary himself could have worked also in other areas. This sometimes can make harder the study of notary deeds, because finding…
We receive quite often requests from persons who look for ancestors that, at some point, are listed in the papers as born from unknown parents. Provided that it’s not possible to make a general analysis of this kind of situations, it’s quite common in these cases to find children that grew up away from their blood…
Some days ago we came across this interesting book dated 1899, the Biographical Dictionary of the Italians in the Plata (“Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani al Plata”), that reports origin, a short biography, and the work and social position of the Italians emigrated during 1800s that achieved the success. Among them many were shop keepers, mainly…
David Priest lives in North Carolina with his wife Maribeth and their two children, Ryan and Ryley. He was born and raised in Pennsville, New Jersey. David is the youngest child of Louis James Priest III and Beverly Longacre Priest. He has two older brothers Marc and Stephen. David’s father Louis is one of five children born to Louis Priest Jr. and Helen Ferrelli Priest both of them born in USA from parents who immigrated from the Italian region Abruzzo.
The following are the notaries for the area of Guardiagrele. Please note that notaries of an area drew up deeds also for people of other towns, that used to apply to him, and the notary himself could have worked also in other areas. This sometimes can make harder the study of notary deeds, because finding…
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…