It took me years before it dawned on me. My immigrant great-grandfather's maternal grandmother, Maria Casaletto, died in Potenza (PZ) and the death record didn't provide much because the declarants didn't know much. I knew my immigrant great-grandfather's mother was born 1 October 1846 in Potenza ...

There is a movement afoot to press the Catholic Church to open the parish registers to genealogy research. These records started in the 1500's but don't figure you'll be able to trace your ancestry that far back.
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Presently, you can zig-zag back with the civil records if they started in 1809 in ...

Start with the most recent ones. If it's a small town, consider doing the whole town, starting with the most recent marriages and you will adjust as you go back, year after year. The marriages will have the framework on which to add the births and deaths.
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The thing to know is that the civil ...

Can anybody explain what this is? https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12 ... 09/LeqYRBV

Castelluccia (SA) 1824 death record number 101, after the decedent's name it says fezza. What does that mean? https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12 ... 35/0nGy46l

He is also the grandfather of my sister-in-law, Brenda Lynne (Cirone) Alciere. I found his birth record and added it to FamilySearch.

1.) Be aware that FamilySearch.org is run by the Mormons, and they call the Catholic sacrament "christening" to distinguish it from full-immersion baptism which is baptising a living person into the Mormon Church, or which a living person performs in a Mormon temple on behalf of a deceased person ...

I'm doing a big compilation of the Castelcivita records and that includes many processetti.

The browser who is unaware needs to know that processetti are sets of records filed with marriages, including copies of birth or baptism records, and death records, as well as consent papers. A first view ...

The image is at http://dl.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/v/Archivio+di+Stato+di+Salerno/Stato+civile+napoleonico/Castellucciaoggi+Castelcivita/Matrimoni+processetti/1809-1810/1217+suppl+2/007348949_00184.jpg.html

Just in case anybody doesn't know it, you click on those images for enlargements.

Okay ...

I have been tracing my roots and I put a ton of material on my website at http://genealogy.bio (for Potenza PZ) and http://genealogy.bio/Castelcivita/castelcivita.html (for Castelcivita, Salerno) including my own lines and other local lines. For such a small town, a lot of Castelcivitesi emigrated ...

Use nonsolocap.it ("Not only postal codes.it") to look up current names. If you know the province, use beniculturali.it For example, if you are looking for Castelluccia, go to http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/?q=gallery and find Salerno, which brings you to http://www.antenati.san ...

Don't forget the family's records. If his child married in Italy, they would say figlio or figlia di, and the father, and where he is living. I've seen USA cities.


You could check the death records (morti) of Castiglione di Sicilia they might have recorded his death back in Italy if the family ...

A lot of Lotito and Lo Tito names are in Potenza-the-city, and I am related to some of them because Rocco Vincenzo ARCIERI married Angiola Maria LO TITO on 9 Feb 1831 in Potenza-the-city.

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For Potenza-the-city research visit http://genealogy.bio

Search all possible records of your ancestor and his/her siblings, too.

If he had a niece who got married and the marriage record, church or civil, mentions her father's birthplace, giving the exact town, remember that all the siblings were probably born in the same town.

Could it be Castelcivita ...