Am wondering where I can write to get info on birth/death/marriage and other public records in Sciacca, Sicily. The names I am looking for at the moment are Sanna and Barbera.
Ufficio di Stato Civile, Comune di Sciacca, Postale 92019, Provioncia Agrigento, Sicily. Include a self addressed envelope and $5.00 with postal cupons or just send cash. You can request documents with form letters from www.italianancestry.com in part 3 under Calabrese which are in Italian. Peter
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 ...