I think one of my problems is that my husband likes red meat (he'd eat it every day if he could) and my daughter doesn't like anything fresh. We are cutting down on the pasta, though. I was having it three days a week, now I'm down to twice a week, which is what we did when I was growing up.

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The photos were from the 1990s. I know all about the meditteranean diet, and that is how I feed my family, but I want to know if Italians eat junk food like we do in between their meals. I really want to know what a day in the life of an Italian is like, or should I say, was like before they started ...

I have seen pictures of my mother's distant cousins in Calabria. They are all so thin! Does anyone know what a typical diet consists of for southern Italians? I hope that if I can eat like them, I can lose all this weight!

I will definitely join ancestry.com. I'm doing all of this for my mom who wishes she could go to Italy to see where my grandparents lived, but she is almost completely blind so she is doing (or having me do) as much as she can online.

Here's a story that I doubt we could ever find out about. It ...

Tessa, I did not have the birth record and marriage act. Again, thank you so much. How do you get this information? Does anyone have access?

I wondered why my aunt was listed as a U.S. Citizen. My grandfather had come to Pittsburgh several years prior to my grandmother and aunt. My grandmother did become a U.S. citizen. She passed away in 1998 at the age of 94.

Tessa, yes, that is it! Thank you so very much.

This site is very confusing to me! I guess I didn't see it at first.

To clarify, my grandmother, Maria, was born in 1904. She would have been about 30, and my aunt Caterina was born in 1930, so she would have been 6. They left Rome and came to Ellis Island in March 1937. Their last name is Gallo, but my aunt thinks that when they lived in Italy, their last name may ...

Hi, I just joined Italian Geneology, and I hope I'm in the right place to find out which ship my grandmother and aunt came over on in March of 1937. They left Rome on either the Rex or Conte di Savoie. Their last name is Gallo or Folinogallo, Maria and Caterina. Thanks so much!