Over 25 million Italians have emigrated between 1861 and 1960 with a migration boom between 1871 and 1915 when over 13,5 million emigrants left the country for European and overseas destinations.
Hey everyone --
My name is Dana and I'm researching my Italian ancestry (obviously). I was wondering if anyone reading this had a passenger list for the Taormina, traveled from Italy to Ellis Island in September, 1921. Please let me know.
Thanks--
Dana
The dialects of modern Italian all have their roots in the spoken form of Latin (Vulgar Latin), in use throughout the Roman Empire. Vulgar Latin had, no doubt, its own local peculiarities before the fall of the Empire. The political instability that followed Roman rule kept Italy from re-uniting as ...
