Amongst our many masters here, is anybody a US based certified translator?

I have a fair-sized project, and I'd much rather give it to someone 'in the family' here on the board than to a random translation company that is likely just going to job it out to a contractor will only get half the fee ...

First - this is a long post, sorry about that, but I want to be specific.

Also, it's a legal question so I will, of course, confer with my lawyer -- but it's also a question about translation requirements and since many of the masters here actually do legal translations, I thought someone might ...

Death records tend to have a lot of inaccuracies because they are filled out by some official working with whatever information is on hand, usually provided by the least stressed-out relative.

There's usually a line on the form indicating who provided the information.

Assuming Carmela had a long ...

Thanks, mmogno.

I'm still at the "See Spot run" level of Italian.

These run-on legal sentences are good exercise at all the weird tenses, but even with all the dictionaries open in front of me, it's still pretty baffling.

Ironically, I used to be able to get some idea if I was in the right ...

Hi Guys;

Could you please check me on this translation of my mother's citizenship certificate?

I'm eventually sending it out to a qualified translator before I ship it off to Italy, but I feel like I really want to take a shot at it first to see how I do.

It's written in that weird passive-past ...

Last June (2023) I used Rob (usernale: avepally) at fiver.com, which is an online small-freelance-task website.

https://www.fiverr.com/avepally/send-you-an-envelope-and-italian-stamps-to-use-for-a-sase

For $20 he'll send you 4 euros worth of Italian Postage, and a correctly addressed envelope. If ...

Don't know how many people have noticed this, but there's a YouTube channel called Pasta Grannies

https://www.youtube.com/@pastagrannies

It's literally just a show that pops into kitchens all over Italy and talks to 90 year old women while they cheerily make hand-made pasta.

Worth checking out ...

Hi Suanj;

What a timely post - I have a question for you.

As I've been researching my personal case I've discovered timing issues which will probably thwart me, but I'm still gathering my information together because, well, this is immigration law and immigration law can change with one court case ...

Cedrone:

I'm having trouble following the exact question, but if you're looking for a marriage in Uniontown, Pennsylvania in the 1910's, or records relating to someone Connelsville, Pennsylvania, both of those towns are in Fayette County (counties are the smallest civil division in Pennsylvania ...

I'm hoping someone can offer me some advice about requesting birth and marriage documents from italy

I'm going to request atti di nascitti for my mother and atti di nascitti and atto di matrimonio for my grandparents.

They were all born in a small town, Isca, on the Calabrian coast in the 1890's ...

A few years ago my wife and I were in Italy and we spent a couple of days in Isca Sullo Ionio to visit my Mom's family.

Isca is a little town of about 1500 on the east side of Calabria, about a mile back from the Ionian coast. It's between the larger costal towns of Sovarato and Badalato, about 15 ...

If we take a look at the Italian Law on Citizenship which was in force at the time (Law 13th June 1912 no. 555), we will find that article 7 reads as follows:


"Except special provisions to be stipulated with international treaties, the Italian citizen born and resident in a foreign country, from ...

I called the Northumberland County Prothonotary's office a few months ago and whoever answered told me that the Prothonotary was no longer going to respond to written requests for naturalization records. People who are looking for records would have to come into the office and do the search ...

As of 2022 though, the Northumberland County Prothonotary will no longer retrieve these records so you'd have to visit in person to do a search. As I don't live in the area and have not visited in several years, due to covid, ICA just got in before the deadline.



Yeah, I'm on the west coast ...

Your mother was born an Italian citizen



Really?

This is the part I don't understand. Imagine her family pulled a "Home Alone" move and forgotten her when they moved to the US and she stayed behind in Italy. Looking back from 2022, she would have a 1948 claim (maybe - depends on what the ...