The Family Tree Italian genealogy guide: how to trace your family tree in Italy

Part One: Linking your family tree to Italy. Chapter 1: Discovering your Italian heritage

Chapter 2: Jump-starting your Italian research

Chapter 3: Identifying your immigrant ancestors

Part Two: Getting To Know the Old Country. Chapter 4: Understanding Italian history

Chapter 5: Understanding Italian geography

Chapter 6: Deciphering Italian: Language, names, and surnames

Part Three: Tracing Your Family In Italy. Chapter 7: Civil records

Chapter 8: Church records

Chapter 9: Census and taxation records

Chapter 10: Notarial records

Chapter 11: Military records

Chapter 12: Other records. Part Four: Advanced Sources and Strategies. Chapter 13: Putting it all together

Chapter 14: What to do when you get stuck

Appendix A: Publications and websites

Appendix B: Italian provinces and archives

Appendix C: Sample letters to request records

Appendix D: Italian genealogical word lists

Index.