:D Howdy folks, maybe I am reinventing the wheel here, let me know if I am getting this right. In order to process an application for dual citizenship in Italy, I must be able to: 1. Speak Italian; 2. Present documents showing that I have a male Italian citizen who is an ancestor (for me that would ...

:D Hi Trish, thanks for looking up stuff for me. I got sidelined by trying to learn to speak Italian so that I could compose a letter or speak to officials in Marsala about what to ask for regarding my ancestry. In the meantime, I have met some interesting people in town and online. Also, I was ...

:P My husband just thought of an idea and I wonder if any of you have heard of this as a way of traveling: He thought of something like a time share; offering our house as like a B&B to a couple or a family that lives in Sicily for a week or two in exchange for the same for them to host us for us to ...

FELICE ANNO NUOVO to all you lovely people. I ate at a Tuscan-style American restaraunt on New Year's eve! Hope your's was good, too!
Darmarnix

:roll: How do I contact this Family History Center? Do they have a website or a physical address that I send the $5.75 to? Will I be able to read the film or must it be printed? Once I get the film will this be useful to request the certificates from Marsala for my grand parents and their parents ...

:? Ok, I'm confused. I guess, I need to start with Paolo's death certificate in order to find out who his father is, correct? I am wondering about the birth dates for my grandparents, tho. We always celebrated grandma's birthday on December 13th. I know that the death cert. for Frances Lascari is ...

Greetings everyone. I've been doing some detective work concerning my maternal heritage. My mother's parents emigrated from Sicily in the early nineteenth century. My mother said her father, Paolo Lascari, emigrated from a village "outside of Palermo." He came to Detroit, got lonely and wrote home ...