Sorry I did not see this post earlier.


Just a tip to you and perhaps anyone.......when I have been stuck in the past in your dilemma.......I go to Ebay and usually look for vintage or historical Italian maps. Sometimes you can find reproductions and sometimes they are prints.....but it's a fairly ...

Hi MaryMena......I saw those as well, I missed a couple but I saw most...Randy Bachman's was pretty charming

But you are right, the people looked surprised and I liked the fact that they showed the process of finding the material (at least to a degree)

I wished they were a full hour but it seems ...

BTW.......to the Canadians out there.

Who watched Who Do You Think You Are - Canadian version?

It aired on CBC about three years back. Ancestry was a sponsor, but not in an overt way.

I thought it was actually OK, but it was 13 episodes and only a half an hour....so they rushed through pretty fast.

Sigh....I have to agree with you guys.....I hate that show. I watch becuase being a genealogy junkie there is very little offline to feed my addiction, but the show is just bad.

Don't get me wrong, this is a great idea for Ancestry to drive traffic but I wish they would have made this more ...

Whoops.....an afterthought...

I would recommend to anyone that if you looking for an Italian cookbook that is a 'must have' in your cucina....it would be a book called The Silver Spoon, it is published by Phaidon Press. It was originally published in 1950 as Il Cucchiaio d'argento, and has been ...

PeterTimber.....whoops, realized after I posted that we recommended the same thing...great minds DO think alike....if I do say so myself!!


wldspirit, I live in Canada and I saw the book at one of the major retailers here in Toronto (Indigo) it was in-stock and on the shelves so I imagine that the ...

Hi there

I got a book a while back and it's very good so far. It's called
Cucina of Le Marche by Fabio Trabocchi.

While the cooking in Le Marche is pretty regional, he does a pretty good job of telling you all about the recipe and how it changes by region. My family is from the Fano region, not ...

Actually I should have been clearer...Crescia is a kind of cake/bread hybrid, some will call it cake, some will call it bread.

At Easter and Christmas we had Crescia...a wicked cheese cake concoction made with 10 eggs and cheese, pepper etc.......there is a family battle every year over who makes the best (the poor men who have to diplomatically navigate THAT one...yikes)

I have never heard of anyone else eating this ...

Actually, we do fried macaroni with the curly edges at home...I either put icing sugar on them or honey and nuts. We just called them crostili. All we do is make pasta (as per usual) roll it out a little thinner, cut with a roller that gives a 'rick-rack' edge in large trianlgesa nd fry in oil until ...

Tamberino, great starting point. Thanks very much


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Thank you so much.....generally I had read all of the information about how surnames were developed and altered, but had never found any specific information about MY last name.....It is amazing becuase I had a theory that this was how the ...

I have been curious as to the orgins or etymology of my family surname, where it comes from? is it an evolution of some other name? an example of a family name 'lifted' from the town they resided in.......The name I am looking up is Talamelli, is there anywhere that I can look up family names or a ...

Hi chiola616


Does your friend have any addtional information...perhaps she doens't have a town, but maybe a province? even geographic info might help a little....did they live near water? in the mountains? were they farmers? fisherman? Even small insignificant details may help give a peice of the ...

milagiro....don't feel bad.....I did the same thing about 6 years ago when I first started.

The conversation was truly hilarious in retrospect (although at the time I was horrified by the wordstuff coming out of my mouth to desperately try and make the conversation work) and it provided my husband ...

http://www.chiesacattolica.it/cci_new/parrocchie/

When there I click on diocesi and then drill down to the region and then parish I need. I am not that familiar with the region, so beyond this I am just guessing for you....but maybe someone else will know more.