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.
While I may have gone about it backwards (I've received all documentation except that from Italy), I'm down to the last three documents - I hope! I need to request both birth certificates and the marriage certificate for my husband's maternal great grandparents from Talamello. I have birthdates and a marriage month and year and I have the contact information for the Comune. And now I'm hoping that I can receive some advice/suggestions/encouragement/information from here on the process of obtaining documentation. Should I send an email request and then follow it up with my written request via mail? Would that be helpful to the Comune by giving them a 'heads up' or a waste of time? (I still need to work on writing my request in Italian...) Any idea as to the time frame I should expect from request to receipt of documents?
Anything else I should know about the request process?
Thank you so much! I'm very excited about the prospect of us obtaining citizenship Jure sanguinis - I'll just need to fill my husband in on his family since I now know more than he ever has!
The typical Italian lineage dates from circa 1600, and for most of us that's reasonably profound. But who wants to be "typical" when you might be able to trace a lineage into the 1500s or even into the Middle Ages? Because success in this field requires practice and perseverance, as well as skills m...
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