thanks for the advice re Italian Embassy. I was thinking about getting in touch with the regional consulate earlier today, just before you posted but you've saved me a lot of ringing round, thanks.

I've already put in a request to our local social services and they#re waiting for the files from the ...

thank you that's a great start!

hi, first post on these forums!

My mother Teresa Meffe of Torella del Sannio, b. 1936, had three children in the 1960s by Luigi Massa, Campobasso b 1939. Two of us, myself and a younger sister Moira, were given up for adoption in England, my other sister Gina was brought up in a convent in Italy ...