My request is different from most. I have made significant progress on my tree using the records available in the city of Palermo, Sicily, however I have many ancestors whose records are located in the churches of San Nicola di Bari-Albergheria and Santa Maria Monserrato (plus who knows what else behind that) during the 18th century. I have tried directly contacting Santa Maria Monserrato, but they do not answer my emails; San Nicola di Bari-Albergheria doesn't even have email contact.
I understand that in the current environment not many churches are giving genealogists permission to examine their records. Ideally, I would just travel to Palermo myself to do this, but such isn't an option at this time.
The difficult part for the genealogist is the clients: we are fully fluent in the ecclesiastical language and move very fast through things. We're essentially looking for a (preferably Palermo-based) genealogist who is OK with doing more of a treasure hunt because, for most of these ancestors, we even have narrowed-down windows in which events could have taken place. As a result, the goal is more a matter of finding and scanning the records with no translation or transcription needed. I have asked Marcello about this, but he graciously declined.
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