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Back to Your Italian Roots: The Search for Family Never Ends

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 05/07/2021 - 03:53

This month’s installment in our series on readers traveling to ��ý in search of their roots and relatives features the story of Mary Louise Tucker, who has…

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Back to Your Italian Roots: A Very Special Trip to Abruzzo

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 03/12/2021 - 00:00

Husband and wife Chris and Alana Loreto first traveled to ��ý in search of their Italian roots in 2014. That very special trip took place in Abruzzo, where…

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Janet Badia and her sister Lisa in the courtyard of their Barisciano B&B

Back to Your Italian Roots: “An Incredible Adventure”

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 02/19/2021 - 00:00

“Mio Dio!” (Oh my God!) - these are the words Janet Badia most associates with her first trip to ��ý to discover her family’s roots; as she recalls, “they…

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Megan Kunze in Florence - her great grandfather Albert Alberti

Keeping Our Ancestors Alive By Learning Their Stories (Back to Your Italian Roots Series)

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 02/05/2021 - 00:00

“The moment we spotted Pienza from the road, perfectly placed atop the rolling Tuscan hills, I was transfixed. We pulled over to take in the first view of my…

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Back to Your Italian Roots: The Ciampi Family That Didn't Exist

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 02/21/2020 - 00:00

[Photo: Current Ciampi family members living on the same 1700s farmland as their ancestors.] Joan Ciampi was told by her Italian American relatives there…

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Hidden in the Rubble: Finding A Family's Past in Poggioreale, Sicily

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 01/10/2020 - 00:00

[In the piazza, meeting relatives who brought with them old family photos. The man in this photo is a Campise relative of Sarah Campise Hallier…

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Back to Your Italian Roots: Perseverance Caused Magic to Happen

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 11/22/2019 - 00:00

Liz Zito’s story is one of perseverance. Her Italian parents, born in small Calabrian villages, migrated to Australia separately – her father in 1925, her…

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Back to Your Italian Roots: Recapturing the Love of a Bisnonna

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 07/05/2019 - 00:00

Marilyn Ricci grew up “100% Italian-American” in St. Paul, Minnesota, surrounded by the love and warmth of her Italian American family, and especially her…

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'Back to Your Italian Roots': A Dream Trip Comes True

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 05/17/2019 - 00:00

[Photo: Pamela McCollough traveled to Abruzzo to search for her relatives...and found them!] Pamela McCollough, a retired modern language educator, traveled to…

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Letters and documents from relatives who emigrated to America

In Emilia-Romagna, Finding Relatives and a Way To Help Others Learn About Family History

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 04/19/2019 - 00:00

For our series ‘Back to Your Italian Roots,’ where we share stories of readers who have traveled to ��ý to reconnect with relatives and visit their ancestral…