ancestry travel
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 05/07/2021 - 03:53
This month’s installment in our series on readers traveling to Italy in search of their roots and relatives features the story of Mary Louise Tucker, who has…
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 03/12/2021 - 00:00
Husband and wife Chris and Alana Loreto first traveled to Italy in search of their Italian roots in 2014. That very special trip took place in Abruzzo, where…
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 02/19/2021 - 00:00
“Mio Dio!” (Oh my God!) - these are the words Janet Badia most associates with her first trip to Italy to discover her family’s roots; as she recalls, “they…
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 02/05/2021 - 00:00
“The moment we spotted Pienza from the road, perfectly placed atop the rolling Tuscan hills, I was transfixed. We pulled over to take in the first view of my…
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 02/21/2020 - 00:00
[Photo: Current Ciampi family members living on the same 1700s farmland as their ancestors.]
Joan Ciampi was told by her Italian American relatives there was…
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 01/10/2020 - 00:00
[In the piazza, meeting relatives who brought with them old family photos. The man in this photo is a Campise relative of Sarah Campise Hallier, whose story we…
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…
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…
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…
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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