The "Portale Antenati" (http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/gallery?g2_view=search.SearchScan&g2_form[search]=name) is a great place to start. I found my husband's great-grandfather's military info there, and he was from the Bari area too.Then, knowing the exact Comune where the family members were born, the Family Search site (https://familysearch.org/search) is a wonderful place to find records from Italy, but takes a lot of patience since the records are micro-filmed (not indexed and searchable), and some years/locations are bundled together or sometimes missing.If he cannot find any info in either sites, then I would write emails to the Comune or churches, or also request official documents through sites such as Pratiche.it, that charge a fee but send someone in person to the city registrar.Hope this helps.
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The "Portale Antenati" (http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/gallery?g2_view=search.SearchScan&g2_form[search]=name) is a great place to start. I found my husband's great-grandfather's military info there, and he was from the Bari area too.Then, knowing the exact Comune where the family members were born, the Family Search site (https://familysearch.org/search) is a wonderful place to find records from Italy, but takes a lot of patience since the records are micro-filmed (not indexed and searchable), and some years/locations are bundled together or sometimes missing.If he cannot find any info in either sites, then I would write emails to the Comune or churches, or also request official documents through sites such as Pratiche.it, that charge a fee but send someone in person to the city registrar.Hope this helps.