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Back to Your Italian Roots Series: How a Facebook Message Helped Reconnect a Family Divided 100 Years Earlier

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 01/19/2018 - 04:27

[Photo, left to right: Ron George, who graciously shared his ancestry travel story with us, cousin William D'Alonzo, William's wife, Antonella Rossetti,…

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Back to Your Italian Roots: Going Home and Feeling ‘Whole’

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 07/07/2017 - 00:00

[Photo: The Raimondi and Leggeri families all together again in 2015 after being apart since 1913.] As part of our series ‘Back to Your Italian Roots’,…

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Back to Your Italian Roots: When Family Bonds Are Stronger than Language Barriers

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 05/19/2017 - 00:00

[Photo: Claire Romano Fisher, the subject of our interview this week, with her Italian relatives.] Our series ‘Back to your Italian Roots’ continues with the…

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Back to Your Italian Roots: Finding an Extended Family in Corleone

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 04/21/2017 - 00:00

[Photo: DeBella (DiBella) Family documents. Photo credit Toni DeBella.] We begin a new series we’re very excited about: ‘Back to Your Italian Roots’ will…