Ascendancy Research
Tracing one individual or several, generation by generation, back as far as the records go.
Services
Original Records
Copies of original birth (baptism), marriage and death records from civil and church registers.
The history of a family lives in its documents. I locate original birth (baptism), marriage and death records in Italian civil and church registers and provide copies — as digital files or printed copies, whichever suits you.
Civil and church records
Italian civil registers and parish books are two distinct sets of sources, kept by different institutions and covering different periods. Depending on the town and the years involved, a record may be found in one, the other or both. Part of my work is knowing where to look for a particular person at a particular time.
Specific records on request
If you already know exactly which record you need — a great-grandfather’s birth record for a family file, a marriage record to confirm a date — I can obtain that specific record for you without a wider research project. See specific records.
Translation
Records are written in Italian, and older church records in Latin. I can translate any document I provide so that you understand not only who is named, but what the record actually says.
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Descendancy Research
Tracing all the descendants of a given ancestor or generation, forward through time.
Translation
Translation of documents and letters from Italian and Latin.
Tell me about your family.
Send me what you already know about your Italian ancestors — names, towns, approximate dates — and describe what you hope to discover. I will reply with my opinion and an estimate for your project.