Thankyou Marty.

I will do that.

Nancy

Hi Marty,

All I know, besides my grandfather's birthdate, (9/4/1887) are the names of his parents. (Scipione Paci and Amabile Busisi). I have no other information and I'm trying to find out the names of his brothers and sisters. My uncle, who is 80, would like to know and so would I. So I'm ...

Thanks for all the help and comments. I was pretty much counting on this document to be the answer to my search but It sounds like I was wrong. I'm still going to contact the commune and see what happens. And thanks for the link to Monte San Savino online info. i'll definitely spend time with it. Is ...

I'm a beginner as far as Italian genealogy goes but I have been studying the Italian language for a few years and I thought it may be helpful for you to know this particular grammatical concept in Italian. Italian has gender for it's nouns (and other parts of speech), masculine and feminine. Every ...

Hi all. Can anyone clarify what exactly the Stato di Famiglia is and do I request it through the Stato Civile? Also, can anyone tell me if Monte San Savino in Arezzo has any of it's Records on-line? I think I checked properly through FamilySearch and could not find any records but I want to be sure ...

Any advice on finding an Italian/English translator so I can write back and forth with an Italian relative? This would be for personal letters and such, nothing legal. Thank you.

hello. It's been a long process but I wrote to potential relatives and received an e-mail from a very distant relative. I understand very basically what he is saying but I would appreciate a translation of his first paragraph. The text in parentheses are my notes.

Stiamo facendo ricerche, per ...

Thanks so much. I'm studying Italian and know enough to not try to translate anything.

I have finally put together a letter to send potential relatives in Italy using this site and others. I want to put the following sentence in the letter to explain my purpose more clearly. Would someone kindly provide me with a translation? Mille grazie.

"I am hoping to find more information on my ...

I thought this was an interesting question so I went to the link provided by adelfio. For those who don't have time to do the reading..$30 was the average steerage fare to NY (the article also said that by about 1900 the trip took about a week).

I'm trying to read through the old postings of the various forums but haven't figured out how to hop from, for ex. Page 1 to Page 20 without starting almost from the beginning, when I log in for a new session. I checked the Forum FAQ and tried various things but haven't figured it out.

Also, what ...

It is exciting. The internet is really a great tool. My grandfather was from Monte San Savino, a small town in Tuscany. I hope to visit in the near future also. How can you go wrong in Tuscany! Sicily would be great too.

Just a note of encouragement: I'm new to this but after using mainly this website for search, procedures, terminology, ideas, etc. I decided to write to the comune (in Italian) where my grandfather was born to inquire about cost and procedure to receive copy of birth certicate and extract. So I was ...

Went through Ellis Island passenger lists and could not find a Carlo Paci at all and then went through a list of Italian 1st names to see if there was something similar to search but that didn't work. We think he came over sometime shortly after WWI. Could there be other lists to check or could he ...

I found only 6 people with the name of Paci and I guess a few businesses. I want to write to them but I thought I should have a bit more information such as the names of all the 18 siblings. Maybe that's not necessary though.

I didn't think of getting the manifest of my grandfather's brother ...