Thanks for sharing! I've learned a lot about Italian genealogy since I joined this forum. I'm starting my German genealogy soon (just emailed a cousin a week ago) and will be sure to watch the videos for it.
Thanks for this information. I just passed it along to the president of my village genealogy club as well as to the people who attended the Italian genealogy workshop I ran in mid March.
The video class on Italian Geneology by the LDS was very helpful to me as a non Italian speaker in extracting pertinent info from Italian vital records.
The name Italia, probably a Graecized form of Italic Vitelia (='calf land'), was originally restricted to the southern half of the 'toe' but was gradually extended. By 450 B.C. It meant the region subsequently inhabited by the Bruttii; by 400 it embraced Lucania as well. Campania was included after ...