To start any serious attempt of this kind, you need the earliest possible name with place and date (death, birth or marriage). From there you'll proceed through births, marriages etc, according to the availability of resources - municipalities certificates, civil records, onciari, parish books, notary records and still other possible sources.
As you proceed backward in time, resources will become scantier, and research longer and more expensive. We have tried to help you along with all publicly available data and the information we have collected up to now, and that we are still collecting, on genealogical resources in Abruzzo.
You have name, surname & date of your ancestor -
You need / are unsure of the place
You have name, surname, date & place of your ancestor and parents' names - You have all necessary details to start a genealogical reconstruction through Civil Records
Check the availability of Civil Records for your place
You have exhausted parish books - onciari -
You need notary acts or other sources
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II. You want to go forward and find relatives
This section is being prepared. Meanwhile if you want to engage us to help you, you can fill our form supplying all information available as yet to you and we'll prepare a custom estimate of feasibility, time and costs.
Or you can try writing a letter to all those families bearing the surname of your ancestor in his/her municipality of origin:
You do not have names and addresses
You can find them in the white pages
You want to know more about the places, traditions, customs of your ancestral land, the recipes and economy, you want to reconstruct the real life of your ancestors, to preserve the heritage that you had from your forefathers through thousands of years of Abruzzese and Italian history
You want literary sources
You need books, journals, essays etc
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You want video and audio
You can search the internet etc
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You are interested in learning Italian and dialect
You can learn through the internet etc
