This Surname Board List has hand-picked links to most of the popular Italian Genealogy Surname Message Boards where you can search and post your Italian surname originating in any of the municipalities / comunes of Italy. General Genealogy Boards & Lists are also included when they contain a good percentage of Italian Surnames. You will also find sites that list Italian Surnames that are to be found in or originated from a particular Town and/or Region in Italy to help you in your Italian Family Tree Search.
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Specific Message Boards for various areas in
Italy and also other lists such as Volunteers in Garibaldi's Army in
1860, Italian Civil War Regiment, WTC/NYC and more
Italian Surname Searches & Genealogy Message Boards
Italian Names & Surnames page - distribution maps and other interesting statistical databases on Italian Names & Names in general are on the Italy Names Page. This link takes you to the entire page of Italian Name & Surname links.
ELLIS ISLAND & more SHIPS Passenger Arrival Records - Ships Passenger Arrival Lists including Ellis Island Wall of Honor, Ellis Island Passenger Lists, Castle Gardens and other Immigrant Ship Passenger ArrivalRecords links are all located on the
SHIPS section of our free website here at Italian Genealogy Online & all things Italian.
Family Search is a HUGE mega-database of Surnames prepared by the Mormons but containing thousands of Family Trees with information on over 105 million surnames, which are not necessarily Mormon. Try it and then check back as they are adding new records WEEKLY.
DistantCousin.com Family History Resources - Search the entire site many of the links eventually "feed" to ancestry.co so be careful, although they have some valid tree transcriptions.
Family Tree Maker Online Keyword Search - keyword search locates information anywhere in the Family Tree Maker.com Web site, except the Family Finder and the Social Security Death Index.
GenCircles - from the creator of GenForum; Cliff Shaw. This is my favorite User Interface and display of
information. The notes and sources are displayed very clearly. It is easy to use and very searchable. I personally use it for many of my Family Tree studies.
GenealogyPortal.com - FREE searches of many databases. Scroll down to the gray box, type in your ancestors name in place of where I typed mine, then click search.
Genealogy Queries - submit and browse genealogy postings at CousinConnect.com and in various general databases at one time. Beware of their commercial site links at the end of your search results. Always exercise caution.
GeneaNet Genealogical Database Network - universal register of all the world's genealogical resources whether Net-based or not and whether free or fee-paying. You can find Italian Surname listings throughout the world on this one and Geneanet lets you create your family tree directly on it's website, or you can submit a Gedcom from your own genealogical software program and then you can easily present your genealogy on the Internet.
GenForum: Italy - GenForum has over 35,000 online forums devoted to genealogy.Disable scripts, Java and ActiveX in your browser or use pop-up stopper software on your computerso your computer won't freeze up due to pop-ups or spyware.
GenForum Surname Board Search - Search for a Surname Board dedicated to your surname. Post and Search for thousands of surnames. If they don't have a Forum for your surname, ask them to make one. Cliff Shaw designed it to be easy. He moved on to build GenCircles. Let us hope & pray that now that he is gone they don't keep changing it for the worse like some other big sites have recently done.
GenSuck.com-ezboard - Discussing the Pitfalls of Genealogy. General Ranting, Industry News and the "No Excuse! Nomination" Forum. Many tips on how to avoid rip off and genealogy con artists.
Italiangenealogy Forum maintained by Edmondo A. Tardio - He has been running his site from the Netherlands for many years "plus" he really does his own Italian & Dutch genealogy research. (so maybe he & I are related... grin)
Lineages.com - Free Database Search Scroll down for a free search through some "General Information Searches", some handy lookups for the beginning genealogist.
Listado de Apellidos - from Apellidos Italianos in Argentina. "Genealogía Italiana en Español" (in Spanish) To browse, simply scroll down or click on the first Initial of your Surname (Apellido) Interest.
MEGAsearch Genealogy Italy - One window search very well maintained by Rob Kuijsten. LDS (Mormons) Italy, Ancestral File (LDS Mormons) Italy, Geneanet Italy, Google, genealogy Italy, Google News Genealogy Italy, Rootsweb message board Italy, People Finder Italy, Genforum Italy. Ignore the ones that charge $$$ to view.
MetaSearch at Rootsweb - goes through most of their databases quickly, SCROLL OVER and down a little to the right side of page to:Refine Search / Surname.
RootsWeb Search - Literally hundreds of millions of names and many categories.
RootsWeb Surname Database - Register to add your surnames to this list so others can find you; it's free.
Search 3384 Genealogy books - directory of genealogy books on the Internet, featuring 3384 categorized and cross-indexed books
Social Security Death Index Search - FREE lookup from FamilySearch.org.IMPORTANT NOTE: you will *not* find anyone listed who died before 1962 listed on the Internet &/or who didn't collect benefits or whose dependants didn't collect SS benefits after they died. If you can't find your ancestors' Social Security Numbers do what I did - obtain the Official State Death Notices on each grandparent. Their death notice will have their SSN on it. I also included a copy of each individual's Death Notice on the copies of the original SSN app I requested.
The Computerized Ancestor - An internet database furnished by Yates Publishing, consisting of an index to over 840,000 family group sheets with contact information on submittor.
U.S.A. Census Records Search - are all on the Genealogy USA Tools page of this site. More are added periodically Remember: the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) - Family History Centers have almost all of the Census Records in their Libraries and if you are new to research drop by one of their centers for some free tips. (use the SOUNDEX Code Generator on the USA Tools Page before you visit LDS.) Heritage Quest Online is a terrific resource available from home via your free Public Library card from Public Libraries across the country. Check with your local public library and any affiliate libraries which may honor your library card.
WorldConnect Project, more than 385 million names - Click on SEARCH ALL DATABASES More than 239 million names on file. Refine a search that yields too many "hits" by including more information, also, you may use a wildcard. For example, put 187* in the birth year field to search all years from 1870 through 1879.
World Trees on Ancestry.com - family trees submitted by their users. UNFORTUNATELY, they now require you to log in to view the submissions given to them by their users whose intention was to share. Rootsweb WorldConnect is still easy to view but who can say when ancestry.com will rob them of their original vision. (I am considering deleting this link.)
WWW documents at RootsWeb - search through all the registered homepages and databases at GenSeeker-Rootsweb for your Surname.
Brazil: Imigrantes Italianos -Italian Immigrants to Brazil - Scroll down through the page to their links & lists of Italians to Brazil and Descendants of Italy in Brazil researching their Family Trees.
Calabrian Heritage - a forum at "Our Calabrian Heritage" maintained by George Lilli.
Civil Records of Selected Italian Comunes - list of websites or email addresses that represent the transcription of hundreds or thousands of Birth, Marriage & Death records from Italy.
Italian Records on Rootsweb - ITALY: Foggia: Italian Births 1809-1889 Alberona, Foggia contributed by C. Giambattista, Italy: Lazio: American Soldiers (Darby's Rangers WWII) buried in Nettuno Cemetery contributed by Carl Lentz for third Ranger Batallion, WWI Deaths, Santa Caterina Villarmosa, Caltanissetta, Sicily contributed by Richard Danca
ITALY REGIONS at GenForum - I've linked directly to their larger Forums but see if they have added your area of Interest. (areas are added occasionally - so keep checking or ask them to add yours). As of my last check they cover -Abruzzo, Avellino, Bari, Basilicata, Calabria, Foggia, La Spezia, Latina, Milan, Molise, Naples, Rome, Sicily and Venice.
Lettopalena, Abruzzi list of Surnames - started with surnames from in & around Lettopalena, Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy and other towns from Italy's central Adriatic Coast in the western Abruzzo Region. Now, Unfortunately includes a tremendous amount of non-Italian / non consanguineous surnames.
San
Fele, Potenza, Italy Surname list - if your surname is on this list your heritage "may" be linked to the comune of San Fele in Potenza, Basilicata, Italy. Check it out.
Ancestry of Families of Santa Teresa di Riva and Vicinity - If your family came from Santa Teresa di Riva, Savoca, Furci, or Casalvecchio, in the Province of Messina, Region of Sicilia and you are interested in finding your ancestry, this free web site is for you by Mel Moschella.
Sicilian Ancestor & Surname Registry - Information Center by Jeff La Marca with posting by people looking for Genealogy Information on Sicily (Unfortunately still off-line at this time)
SICILY Surname List - ITA-Sicily Very well maintained by Donna Guiffre researching all of Sicily.
Italian Archives, E-mail Surname Lists, Italy Mailing lists, etc.
Dear People, "IF" you contact someone on a "Mail-List or E-mail list and it turns out to be a dead link, please notify the Webmaster of *that* particular site. Thank You and Best Regards Always, Paula Nigro.
ALL ITALY - Italian Surname Collection - from Anthony Parente at "Italians R us" He makes it VERY easy to sign up with over 16,000 names already listed and the display is easy on the eyes, effortless to read and basically as we would say "USER FRIENDLY" ... Bravo Antonio!!!
Calabrian Surname List - Easiest to skip the search box and scroll through the list yourself. The surname searched for did not come up in the search but I found it by going through the list.
Il Circolo Calabrese - A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the Calabria region of Italy.
Clan Cyberesh Mailing List - Arbëresh are people who migrated, or fled, from Albania to Italy beginning in the 15th Century living mainly in the Sicilian Towns of Mezzojuso, Piana degli Albanesi, Contessa Entellina, or Palazzo Adriano, or the Calabrian town of Falconara moderated by John Cusimano contact them for more information.
Gaetano Online Surname List - e-mail contact list maintained Thomas "G" Buccigross. Please kindly contact him if you reach an email link that is no longer valid.
GEN-ITALIAN Search - put in your surname and select the database to search through the 1997 through current postings. This is also archived by Rootsweb - Click Here to view, but they are incomplete and also they do not know how to archive Italian characters, such as ì, è, ò, à and etc. GoogleGroups does not have this problem.
Italian Adoption - by John Campitelli. ITALIADOPTION is limited to adult *living* Italian born adoptees who have been adopted by North American parents and who wish to search for their birth family in Italy. They do not deal with genealogy research of ancestors who might have been adopted in Italy in past generations.
More Email listings of Italian Surnames - Go down to about the middle of the page, click on the initial of your last name & scroll down. This commercial site currently contains 31,052 Italian last names.
Italy Mailing Lists Signups - Big list of Italian Mailing Lists. A good place to find out about Italian Genealogy events, lectures, meetings, research in your areas of interest, etc., and other topics on Italy.
LDS_genealogy - Mailing list for those interested in genealogy, particularly for those interested in the software and databases maintained by Latter Day Saints Church, such as IGI, Ancestral File, and Familysearch.org in general
Northern Italy Family History Research - well moderated free list by Regina Gualco, unfortunately not viewable unless you join (however this is how many mail-lists keep away spam). Specializes in genealogy from the regions of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Lombardia, Piemonte, Trentino-Alto Adige, Valle d'Aosta, and Veneto as well as the bordering areas of France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Emilia-Romagna and Toscana
PIE Mailing List Home - A mailing list for topics related to Italian genealogy and Italy in general. PIE does *not* gateway to USENET and visa versa so it should be generally safe to use a real email address with your subscription to them. I still recommend using a free-email not your ISP email on all and any mail-lists, websites, surname lists and etc.
RootsWeb: Italian Genealogy Mailing Lists - Rootsweb is the Oldest & Largest free Genealogy Web Site and continues today because of its volunteers in spite of having been bought out by a very commercial company. NOTE: if you sign up to any Rootsweb mailing list and post a message your email address will be put on the Internet so you need to use a free email like hotmail, hotpop, yahoo, newspaper web-mail, etc, NOT your personal email through your Internet Service Provider or else use a News Subscription for the connection and "mung" the email address you use when posting.
Various Genealogy E-mail Groups on YAHOO- many private and public groups for Italian and other Genealogy Info (like how to do Genealogy Research with computer, etc.) It is fun to browse the "Public" Forums even if you don't want to join.
Groups.google: soc.genealogy.italian - Google's USENET reader easily lets you read Newsgroups via a browser without a "mail-list" signup. Google purchased the old Deja News Archives and still keeps them online. It is better to read and respond to Newsgroups via a regular newsreader rather than a mail-list subscription because newsgroups are archived on the Internet and mail-lists do not allow address munging, which is the easiest way to protect yourself from Spam when posting in a USENET newsgroup. In the Rootswebarchives of the USENET groups, posters email addresses are easily viewable & obtainable by users of Linux and Web Browsers such as Firefox & Opera although not viewable to most people using IEbrowsers. Unfortunately newbies using Mail-lists gatewayed to USENET tend to "freak-out" when a message they send to a munged address bounces. This stress can be avoided by self-education on how to use newsgroups. Many Internet service providers operate news-servers for their users to access as part of their related services.
The Rootsweb Mail-List 'Gen-Italian' takes part in some of the Usenet discussions *however* after Rootsweb was bought out by ancestry/et-al - that takeover company *appears* to block answers sent to the Roots-Mail-List people's questions when those answers are posted by people with a newgroup subscription** So since this takeover, if you read a dangling, unanswered response to a Roots-Mail-List subscriber's question, which isn't even followed by a thank you or more questions, it is "often" simply because the newbie (and some are newbies forever) never "received" the message in their in-box. So if you belong to Rootsweb GEN-ITALIAN then you will need to use another reader to find all the answers posted to questions. Most of the Newsgroup Users in other countries don't want to fill up their mail boxes with large messages, which often contain ads at the bottom of the message, so they efficiently use their Internet Service Providers news access or a private newsgroup subscription.
After thenewbies stopped receiving International newsgroup users messages this
resulted in many genealogy research volunteers (particularly in Italy) to stop giving advice. Using a valid newsgroup subscription is preferable to subscribing to any mail-list archived on the Internet which will expose peoples legitimate email addresses to Spam because knowledgeable computer users can post USENET messages using a fake email address to avoid harvesting by Spambots. Utilizing address munging is one of the best way to avoid Spam from the Internet. An easy way to disguise your email on USENET is simply to add words that anyone with a workable IQ could remove, such as; "nameofposterDELETE@NOSPAMyahoo.invalid" -- and other various. At the bottom of your message you might put in your real email in words only, without using the @ sign such as: Email: yourname [at] server [dot] com
**Once I posted a test message to that newsgroup and it appeared in the GEN-Italian archives, so they/ancestry might be changing their policy. However, the above will stay in effect until I check it a few more times to know for sure that they are not blocking messages. (maybe they don't want their mail-listers to know that there is another way???)(hmm.. something to think about)
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