Hello - I recently visited Lipari and the municipality there gave me a copy of my grandfather's birth certificate. I am going to apply for dual citizenship and see they also require a copy of his marriage license. I have the date. Does anyone know where I should send this request. Many thanks ...

Tessa and VotM:

I cannot thank you enough! This is such great and useful information. I'm speechless :D This really helps to start fill out the tree. I hope I can find people like you when I search for my father (not Italian). Thank you again and best wishes for a wonderful new year.

Francesca

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Here is a POSSIBLE birth registration for Giovanni Iacono in 1859 in Lipari
Father: Gaetano Iacono, 35, farmer
Mother: Maria Xxxinno(?), 42.
Birth on 30 August at 9 AM
Baptized on 31st.
Record #159
http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core ...

Buon Natale! I belong to Ancestry.com and have been rebuilding my family tree from Lipari, Sicily. I have found quite a bit about my grandmothers (Caterina Ziino 1857) and her sister (Giuseppa Ziino 1859). Caterina married Giovanni Iacono (1859) in 1883 had a son Antonio. Giuseppa married Vito ...