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Back to Your Italian Roots: Perseverance Caused Magic to Happen

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 11/22/2019 - 00:00

Liz Zito’s story is one of perseverance. Her Italian parents, born in small Calabrian villages, migrated to Australia separately – her father in 1925, her…

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Back to Your Italian Roots: Recapturing the Love of a Bisnonna

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 07/05/2019 - 00:00

Marilyn Ricci grew up “100% Italian-American” in St. Paul, Minnesota, surrounded by the love and warmth of her Italian American family, and especially her…

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'Back to Your Italian Roots': A Dream Trip Comes True

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 05/17/2019 - 00:00

[Photo: Pamela McCollough traveled to Abruzzo to search for her relatives...and found them!] Pamela McCollough, a retired modern language educator, traveled to…

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Letters and documents from relatives who emigrated to America

In Emilia-Romagna, Finding Relatives and a Way To Help Others Learn About Family History

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 04/19/2019 - 00:00

For our series ‘Back to Your Italian Roots,’ where we share stories of readers who have traveled to Italy to reconnect with relatives and visit their ancestral…

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Small mountain village of Pacentro in central Italy

‘Back to Your Italian Roots’: In Pacentro, Reliving A Father’s Childhood Stories

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 03/22/2019 - 01:00

For our series ‘Back to Your Italian Roots,’ where we share stories of readers who have traveled to Italy to reconnect with relatives and visit their ancestral…

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'Back to Your Italian Roots': Making New Families in Italy

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 10/26/2018 - 00:00

[The Corsi family.] “Italy first captures your attention, and then captures your heart,” says Dawn Mattera, who has traveled to Italy numerous times to search…

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'Back to Your Italian Roots' Series: An Entire Community Becomes Family

by Silvia Donati | Thu, 08/16/2018 - 00:57

[Janet Nelson with the mayor of Valdieri.] It takes courage to leave the small mountain town where you were born and grew up to sail across the ocean and into…

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Back to Your Italian Roots Series: Finding a Sense of Family and Community in Italy’s Fumone

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 06/29/2018 - 00:00

[From left to right, Deborah Caponera, husband Greg, Sergio Caponera and Simonetta Zander at the Comune -city hall- in Fumone researching records.] Growing up…

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Back to Your Italian Roots: A Family Tree Continues to Expand

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 03/30/2018 - 00:00

[Photo: Maurice Petch, second from right, with his wife Angela next to him, with members of his family in Italy he had never met before.] Italy Magazine’s ‘…

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'Back to Your Italian Roots' Series: Following the Goddess Home

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 02/23/2018 - 00:00

We feel very honored that our readers are choosing to share their heritage travel stories with us, and we continue our ‘Back to Your Italian Roots’ series…