Wishful Wednesday: Maria Stagno The Ancestor I Wish I Knew
What's a personal blog without some deep secret gushing? I'm following some GeneaBloggers prompts to keep this blog active while I do some of the more mundane research for my ICAP research project. So today on Wishful Wednesday I'd like to talk about the ancestor who...
Tuesday’s Tip: The best place to keep your family tree safe
This post is titled 'The best place to keep your family tree safe' and the key word here is 'safe'. What do I mean by safe? I don't mean safe from predators who want to steal your identity. Common sense internet ethics apply when doing genealogy research. Don't...
Giuseppe Sulfaro
Today I took a little break from my ICAP Gen research project and did some research on my Nonno Giuseppe Sulfaro just for fun. I have a lot of resources on him, and thought I'd had everything that had been published with his name on it. Apparently I was wrong. And...
The Shortcomings of Genealogy and Updates
Sometimes the biggest barriers to genealogical research are the ones you can't control. A few days ago I received an email from the Comune of Messina informing me that my search for the marriage record of Giuseppe and Giuseppa Sulfaro was unsuccessful because "the...
Research, RootsTech and Learning Italian
Yesterday I briefly touched on the need for a genealogist to be structured and organized in their research. Today I tell you how easily distracted and disorganized I am. Yes, I'm already contradicting my words. Off to a good start! The world of genealogy is so...
Finding Elusive Records for the Four-Generation Project
As any genealogist would know you need a strategy and very good organizational skills if you hope to discover anything about your ancestors. The world is such a diverse and expansive research landscape, and the billions of people who have existed before us did not...
In The Beginning
This is the short story version of how I got into genealogy: It was on an evening in December 2010. My boyfriend, now husband, was on Ancestry.com. We were chatting about how one of his relatives had started researching their family tree and had found out a lot of...