Curious whether anyone has undertaken church record (pre 1800) research in Gioia Sannitica, province of Caserta.

Thank you. the book was very helpful.

I have attached a picture from the turn of the 20th century of a family member in an official uniform of some sort. I do not know whether it is military or police related. any assistance would be appreciated.

thank all of you for your information. my great-grandfather Antonio Pacelli, father of several in the picture, passed away in 1933. His nephew in the picture would have driven from Connecticut to western PA. i am beginning to suspect he was there visiting family for the funeral.

Thank you Mark. A bunch of Italian immigrants riding in the American dream.

unfortunately the image was not originally scanned at a high enough resolution to enlarge and still be clear. that was my first attempt in trying to pin point a date.

I need a little help from car aficionados in trying to get an approximate date for this photo. hopefully the model year of the car will help pin point that date. things i know: the adults were born between 1900-1910, the little boy 1920.

For my paternal ancestry i appear to have a rather odd Y-DNA (CTS-10228) I2 haplogroup. I have been able to identify my paternal Italian ancestral family to have lived in a specific town in southern Italy from 1530ish to 1900. the typical % Italian DNA (from three separate DNA testing sites) ranges ...

i find very few matches on my paternal line M-423 who are from Italy. Based on extensive research, i can document my paternal line in Italy back to the mid 16th century for certain. They lived in the same town until emigrating to the USA in 1900. The area in Italy where they lived was occupied by ...

I2a2 who migrated into Italy since at least 1572.

Yes, thank you Tessa. i had seen that article and, unfortunately, it remains a possibility. in all my other searches using the information from there - Canada, Fayette Co. , Pa, etc... i could not locate any other information about a trial, verdict or other that might indicate whether that Carmine A ...

Yes. I have much information for his two brothers when they came to USA.

(1) brother Geremia (b 09/28/1889); various versions of his name, ended up with James.
(2) brother Constantino (b 06/06/1895).

and other information for his siblings who remained in Italy. Carmine has been hiding for quite ...

yes thank you. that is his birth record which i have, one of my certain data points for him.

Might be helpful for me to identify a couple other Carmine Rapuanos who are not winners for me either:
(1) Carmine George) Rapuano died in Wilmington DE in 1957
(2) Carmine Rapuano immigration 1876
(3) Carmine Rapuano immigration 1880

I had come across that record prior but that Carmine Rapuano was born a couple decades after the one for whom i am searching. Thank you.

Tom