Cemetery Records

[chrisdamato]

Here is the U.S., we have "FindAGrave" and other websites that provide information and photos of headstones. Is there a way to get the same information from towns in Italy???

[erudita74]

I don't have a subscription to ancestry.com, but see this is on the website:

Italia, Archivio di Find A Grave, 1800-Presente

https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.a ... b+Property

[chrisdamato]

Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I was unable to locate anyone in my family. Is there a more direct way to go about this? Would contacting the individual towns help me in any way?

[erudita74]

I suggest you read the following article concerning cemeteries in Italy.

https://angelresearch.wordpress.com/200 ... emeteries/

I have never tried contacting any ancestral town to see if anyone would take photos for me. The only way I ever got some photos years ago, but not necessarily for my direct line ancestors, was by being in contact with someone who was traveling to the town, took photos, and then shared them with me.

Erudita

[chrisdamato]

Thank you. That is disappointing. It would have been amazing to find gravesites.

[Rossonero3]

Thank you. That is disappointing. It would have been amazing to find gravesites.

The article that erudita74 linked is very accurate, unfortunately. I visited the cemetery in my ancestral comune last year and none of my ancestors were there to be seen, although I recognized many many surnames from all the research I've done over the years. Most every burial I saw was had been done within the last 100 years. It's an unfortunate fact with Italian and european burials and I agree with your sentiments about finding a 200+ year old grave site of an ancestor, it would've been amazing. Funny because I live in Salem, MA and we have gravestones here from the 1600's, but I go to Italy and every burial is in the recent past.