Hi ForzaItaliaPgh,

He was born in 1867 and emigrated in 1893, so everything lines up! I'm going to the vital records office next week to try to gather the family records, and hopefully my distant cousins in Lucca can help with that side of things. Wish me luck! and thanks for the offer, I'll let ...

thanks! looks like he was naturalized one or two years after GGF was born! so that means even though he did renounce it, citizenship had already passed to his son? thus making me a citizen (after the paperwork)?

great news if I understand correctly!

Hi ForzaItaliaPgh,
I'm just embarking on my quest for citizenship, via my Great Great Grandfather from Lucca! I was wondering what you meant by this:


Of course, you'll have to make sure that your Great Grandfather was born BEFORE your Great great grandfather became a US Citizen, or else you are ...