I stumbled across this very old thread when I was doing some research for my son's fiancee, a 2nd great grandaughter of Giuseppe Terrizzi and Grazia Paone (great grandmother was Jennie Terrizzi). I too, was confused by the use of the surname of Deritz in the 1920 census for the Giuseppe Terrizzi fam...

Thank you, so much to the replies on this confusing marriage sequence. Like I said, I'm new to researching Italian records but I find them reasonably easy to translate and it's fortunate that so many civil records are online. It would be nice if church records were too, but not that I've found. This...

I am not of Italian heritage but have begun to do some genealogy research for my future daughter-in-law who is. As such, I've spent some number of hours researching some of the Messina civil records hosted by familysearch. They are easier to follow than Polish records that I'm used to researching bu...