Thank you

Hello,
I wish to write a letter to possible relatives living in Sicily but I neither speak or write in Italian. Do you know of a form letter that is both proper and polite to use? I plan on including a clear, simple family tree with it.
sincerely,
josie

Pippo,

Thank you for your reply ~ I have visited the website and have sent an email with my parents names to confirm this is the church. Unfortunately, I neither write nor speak Italian so I will wait awhile to see if I get a reply and if not I will work on composing an email in Italian. I noticed ...

I took another look at the certificate I do have and it does say on it: Province of Catania ~ Comune di Ramacca. I have a very old weathered poster that has ~ S. Giuseppe ~ Di Ramacca on it....do you know how to locate the Church? Thank you so much for your help. It makes sense about the Comune ...

Hello,
My husband and I are planning to visit Italy/Sicily in the near future and I have been doing family research for a few years. I have a lot of information but there are many gaps, one of which is finding the Church my parents were married in, I am pretty sure it is St. Guiseppe in Catania (10 ...

Does anyone know the best way to translate a very large amount of letters, probably around 300? They are old, from 1948-1949 - some very weathered and thin.
thanks,
josie

thanks again, you have helped very much.
Bye
Josie

Thank you, how can I contact Catania State Archive to view these records?

Riccardo,

Both sets of my grandparents and my father came from Ramaaca, Catania - no one in the family knows my Great Grandfathers first name but his last name would have been Di Silvestro or possibly Silvestro. I am told he did died in a prison in Sicily but not sure which one, possibly a prison ...

Thanks T !!!! I will check those sites out.

Hello,

My grandfather might have died in a prison in Sicily. Does anyone have a list of prison names?

Hello,
I am searching for living relatives in Catania. My father Joseph Paglia was born in Catania in 1924, his mother was Rosa Paglia (maiden name Alvares) born 1896, his father was Giovanni (John) Paglia born 1888. I believe Rosa had sisters named Concettina Zappala, Francescia Canpanelli and ...