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Genealogy Research in Southern Italy

The resources which might help genealogy research in Abruzzo were grouped into the following categories: Italian Resources || Italian Genealogy Mailing Lists || USA Resources || General Genealogy Sites || Lists of Links || Homepages about Abruzzese descent || Graphics and html charts || Software || Books






    Italian Genealogy Mailing Lists
  • Italian Genealogical Society mailing list: send a message with "subscribe" (without quotes) in the body to gen-italian-l-request@rootsweb.com if you want to receive the messages posted as single emails, to gen-italian-d-request@rootsweb.com if you want to receive emails in digest mode.
  • COMUNES_OF_ITALY : to subscribe send an email to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com: writing in the body "SUBSCRIBE COMUNES_OF_ITALY FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME" (without the quotes)
  • italy-gene@egroups.com : to subscribe you can just send an email to italy-gene-subscribe@egroups.com writing only "subscribe" in the body of the message
  • PIE: to subscribe send an email to pie-request@jsoft.com: in the body of the message write "subscribe pie" if you want to receive the messages posted as single emails, "subscribe pie-digest" if you prefer receiving one big email collecting all messages










    General Genealogy Sites
  • Rootsweb: large volumes of data available to the online genealogical community at minimal cost and support services to online genealogical activities
  • Worldwide Gedcom Service : over 10 million surnames in GEDCOM databases. A GEDCOM database is required for access to the system.
  • American National Genealogic Society: Genealogy Online, with its home in Santa Cruz, California, has been helping family researchers since 1994 with a multitude of free services, created by the public.
  • Heritage Quest: a collection of microfilms available for purchase to individuals and organizations, or rental through a membership program.
  • Ancestry.com: Database Available for searching - subscription requires





    Graphics and html charts
  • Genealogy Graphics Collection: wonderfully stylish set, which can be used freely on non-commercial genealogy pages
  • Ultimate Family Tree: creates your family tree and documents your research using citation models
  • Free HTML Codes: to share your own charts on the web through standard html files
  • Ultimate Scrapbook Creator Deluxe: everything you need to turn ordinary photos and images of your memories (including documents, diplomas, keepsakes, letters, etc.) into beautiful and creative memory books.





    Software (Alphabetical)
  • Brother Keeper: a Windows genealogy shareware program that will help you organize your family history information and let you print charts and reports
  • Genealogia, il primo grogramma gedcom-compatibile in italiano.
  • Family Tree-Maker: Three versions with different prices: Family Tree Maker Deluxe 10-CD Set, Family Tree Maker Deluxe 4-CD Set, Family Tree Maker Basic Edition
  • Gendesigner: GenDesigner is an easy-to-use application for creating, editing, and distributing family trees. You may include additional text and pictures for each person as well as convert all the chart into html files
  • Genealogy Software: a site containing information on genealogy software and comparisons of products