Antenati and Italian Genealogy Research Tips

[@JosephDitta]

This was great! I've made a similar master list of bookmarks to all the records for Bisceglie, Puglia, that are available on Antenati and FamilySearch. It took a while, but it has definitely paid off because now I can get to the records I need in a flash.

[@ItalianRootsandGenealogy]

Thanks for the feedback pleas share

[@billsallurday]

Thanks for having me on Bob. I hope this helps your viewers.

[@ItalianRootsandGenealogy]

Based on the comments it is!

[@skieye1]

Very Cool Bill. After searching for years, I finally struck gold. Since then we have made a couple of trips to my nonno's home town. Next up my nonna's home town, who was from Salerno.

[@ItalianRootsandGenealogy]

Let me know if you would like to tell your story. Please share. Thank you.

[@skieye1]

As you mentioned when I first started seaching Antenati, I was going page by page through the entire volume. When I discovered that many books had a written index at the end of the volume, it was like a magic moment. On our first trip to our ancestral hometown, I posted on their Facebook page, that I would love to meet up with people in their piazza. We arranged to meet up for a cafe or vino. About a dozen people showed up. They have become like cugini (cousins).

[@ItalianRootsandGenealogy]

Please share

[@skieye1]

Bill dd you mention how your search brought you from Sallurday to Saturday to Sabato ( the Italiano word for Saturday)? An awesome discovery. We too had name issues, and also had dates that were always passed down through the family, but turned out to absolutely be wrong. I wish that I could call my now deceased dad on my cellphone to tell him what I have discovered.

[@ItalianRootsandGenealogy]

Bill told this story in our first interview. I think if you search on Sallurday it will show up.

[@billsallurday]

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[@jeffdamelio]

While I am listening I went into Steve Morse, I had bookmarked the site. No luck. Can't find when my ggf came to the country. My only information comes from a census column in 1910 or '20. So how accurate was that?

[@ItalianRootsandGenealogy]

I'm not sure I understand, is it that your could not find the recored?

[@jeffdamelio]

@@ItalianRootsandGenealogy yes Bob, I haven't been able to find a record that confirms when my great grandfather arrived. I have searched Philadelphia and New York records with no hits.

[@ItalianRootsandGenealogy]

Yeah I get it. I have a road block with my paternal grandfather. He came before my grandmother and uncle and aunts. I have them in 1915 but can't find him. Some records I think are just lost, maybe not indexed.

[@billsallurday]

Hi Jeff. Sometimes the records are hard to find due to language barriers, transcription, spelling errors, etc... If you shoot me an email I might be able to help. My email is in shown the beginning of the video.

[@EquoDam]

It would be good if you could tell how to go to 1500. Because 1800 is just the beginning of the research.

[@ItalianRootsandGenealogy]

It's hard to do online, very few of the churches have the records digitized. The only option is to go there or hire a researcher in Italy

[@EquoDam]

@ItalianRootsandGenealogy yes but it's not hard to go to Italy. Many of us have already been to Italy or are planning to go to Italy and they wonder how to go further in the research.