P.S. Thanks for the suggestion about writing the archives in Pazin. I just emailed them to see if they had anything that might help.

My grandfather was born in 1906 in a tiny town called San Lorenzo in Istria. I have the original "birth certificate" he used to apply for naturalization, which seems to have been written right before he immigrated rather than when he was born.

The reason I am assuming that there is a registry in ...

Briginda,
Who instructed you that you would need a Court order to obtain the document?

The website for NY Vital records says, "If the applicant is not the spouse, parent or child of the decedent, a lawful right or claim must be documented. An example of a lawful right or claim would be a death ...

Hello,

I was wondering whether anyone had any information about a "registry" of Italians from Istria (now part of Croatia) after WWI. Apparently, that area was Italian and then got batted back and forth from Austrian Empire to Kingdom of Italy to Yugoslavia to today Croatia. I want to find out ...

Thanks for the tips about the naturalization documents. I do have the originals. So they don't require them to have an apostille or be certified if they are original? Is that correct?

My father was born in 1947 in Manhattan, and died in 1999 in Tennessee. It is through his father than I am ...

Hello,

I apologize if this may have been discussed already in the forum, but I searched and did not find the exact answers.

1) I am trying to get the certified copies with apostille my Italian grandparents' naturalization papers. They naturalized in New York (Manhattan). After waiting a year for a ...