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Using Facebook for Genealogy
What it’s good for—and what it isn’t Genealogists often have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. On…
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Beyond the Digital Door: Access, Etiquette, and Parish Research
In my last post, I wrote about how a single word in a nineteenth-century record changed…
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The Foundling Record Everyone Missed: Giulia Desiderati (Pisa, 1859)
Giulia Desiderati was the name given to a foundling girl who was born in Pisa, Italy,…
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Digitization, Custody, and Structural Traps in Italian Genealogy
When records are not online, many researchers conclude that they do not exist. That conclusion is…
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The Radici Method
Before You Search, Map the Structure Most people begin Italian genealogy with a name and a…