Having problems with the Italian language? Do you need help to translate or understand an old family document? There is always someone who can help you!
As someone who cannot speak or read Italian, I recently found these translation forms for the standard Italian records that prove to be so helpful for all of us and found them pretty useful for extracting the important info and thought I would share, and hope you all find them as helpful as I do.
Contrary to popular belief, not all Italian given names have Christian or classical roots. Many names encountered in older records are almost whimsical, and some cannot be translated into Latin or any other language. In order to avoid possible mistranscription of a given name with which the research...