Greetings! I have been researching my family tree for quite a while, but am a fairly new addition to FindAGrave. I've started my time here on FindAGrave by working on a pet project of mine-- researching descendants of Judge/Rev Isaac Foster & Grace Parsons, my 4G grandparents. And sometimes this search takes me onto side research projects. What can I say? I get sidetracked at times by interesting puzzles. I try to be thorough, but may miss things. Message me if you find an error, etc. And happy ancestor hunting!Please also message me if you have better photos for the actual cemeteries in Italy (FindAGrave) than I have posted, and I'll pull those of mine that have been made obsolete by yours. In particular, Lavagna & Nascio pix were taken on a gray day. You can find them all through the cemeteries I favorited on my profile page. --More About Me -- Some Italian Research:I have been researching my Italian family tree and other families that may touch on it in some way. If you come across a name for a smaller Italian town that you don't know where it might be, I'm really liking the following site. You might be surprised how many towns there are named "Castiglione" or "Caminata" or "San Colombano": http://www.enchantingitaly.com/italian_frazioni/Another website that can be useful to Italian ancestry researchers (and free) is this Italian National Archives page:http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/?q=gallery It has links to scans of primarily civil records, but also some church records. The Italian civil records are ones that started in 1866 with the unification of Italy. Other periods are earlier. They all are separated by location. For example: I'm looking for a record from Nascio-- Nascio is part of the municipality of Ne...Ne is located in the larger territory covered by what was called (until recently) the Province of Genova (Genoa)...and Genova is located in the region of Liguria. So, I would look at the overall listing "Archivio di Stato di Genova," choose the time period for the records I'm interested in (Napoleonic / Restoration / Italian), and then look for the municipality of Ne. Another potential complication is that Nascio was part of the municipality of Casarza Ligure until 1 Feb 1877. So that makes 2 different municipalities I may want to search. For the time being, I'm not seeing either municipality listed. But this site apparently is a work-in-progress, so one should check back periodically. Also, church records on this site generally appear to be listed at the municipality level, but rather than choosing the specific municipality one would choose the "Parrochia" connected to that municipality. Municipalities likely have/had multiple churches, and a link like this would be to records from just one of these churches. Other websites that may have Italian civil records: https://www.ancestry.com/https://www.familysearch.org/There are limitations on both of these sites. FamilySearch, a free family research resource service associated with the LDS Church, is in the middle of changing their way of handling international records like these, many of which are being transferred from microfilm. The images are becoming available on the site, but many may be locked, available remotely only to members of this church or for individuals using the computers at one of their Family Search Libraries. Sometimes I've found records that aren't locked. I'm not sure how this all will look at the end of their project in the next couple of years. Ancestry, a fee-based family research resource service, has a number of Italian civil records, but not for every location...and these are accessible to US residents with a "World"membership. Even for areas for which this website has a lot of records, it may not have records for some municipalities. Also, many of these records are not transcribed, meaning that they are not text searchable; if that is the only way you are finding your records on Ancestry you might miss out on some Italian records. For example: If I'm looking for records for Nascio, which is part of the municipality of Ne (Genova, Liguria, Italia), I will need to search for records for what until recently was called the Province of Genova/Genoa. On Ancestry, a search of the Card Catalog will bring up the following resource -- "Genoa and La Spezia, Liguria, Italy, Civil Registration Records, 1866-1938 (in Italian)"; Select this option. Then select for Genova, then for Ne, then the type of record, followed by the desired year. Or, as stated earlier, since Nascio was part of the municipality of Casarza Ligure until 1 Feb 1877, I might search that municipality's records as well.Also, it appears that Ancestry and FamilySearch are partnering on records. I'm beginning to see Italian record resources in Ancestry's Card Catalog that clearly come from FamilySearch. I wonder if this may be a way to bypass some of the locks that FamilySearch has on international records on its own site. Indications suggest that this is a work-in-progress. The next year or two may give a firmer view of the direction of this partnership and its impact on the end user's access to international records.

Greetings! I have been researching my family tree for quite a while, but am a fairly new addition to FindAGrave. I've started my time here on FindAGrave by working on a pet project of mine-- researching descendants of Judge/Rev Isaac Foster & Grace Parsons, my 4G grandparents. And sometimes this search takes me onto side research projects. What can I say? I get sidetracked at times by interesting puzzles. I try to be thorough, but may miss things. Message me if you find an error, etc. And happy ancestor hunting!Please also message me if you have better photos for the actual cemeteries in Italy (FindAGrave) than I have posted, and I'll pull those of mine that have been made obsolete by yours. In particular, Lavagna & Nascio pix were taken on a gray day. You can find them all through the cemeteries I favorited on my profile page. --More About Me -- Some Italian Research:I have been researching my Italian family tree and other families that may touch on it in some way. If you come across a name for a smaller Italian town that you don't know where it might be, I'm really liking the following site. You might be surprised how many towns there are named "Castiglione" or "Caminata" or "San Colombano": http://www.enchantingitaly.com/italian_frazioni/Another website that can be useful to Italian ancestry researchers (and free) is this Italian National Archives page:http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/?q=gallery It has links to scans of primarily civil records, but also some church records. The Italian civil records are ones that started in 1866 with the unification of Italy. Other periods are earlier. They all are separated by location. For example: I'm looking for a record from Nascio-- Nascio is part of the municipality of Ne...Ne is located in the larger territory covered by what was called (until recently) the Province of Genova (Genoa)...and Genova is located in the region of Liguria. So, I would look at the overall listing "Archivio di Stato di Genova," choose the time period for the records I'm interested in (Napoleonic / Restoration / Italian), and then look for the municipality of Ne. Another potential complication is that Nascio was part of the municipality of Casarza Ligure until 1 Feb 1877. So that makes 2 different municipalities I may want to search. For the time being, I'm not seeing either municipality listed. But this site apparently is a work-in-progress, so one should check back periodically. Also, church records on this site generally appear to be listed at the municipality level, but rather than choosing the specific municipality one would choose the "Parrochia" connected to that municipality. Municipalities likely have/had multiple churches, and a link like this would be to records from just one of these churches. Other websites that may have Italian civil records: https://www.ancestry.com/https://www.familysearch.org/There are limitations on both of these sites. FamilySearch, a free family research resource service associated with the LDS Church, is in the middle of changing their way of handling international records like these, many of which are being transferred from microfilm. The images are becoming available on the site, but many may be locked, available remotely only to members of this church or for individuals using the computers at one of their Family Search Libraries. Sometimes I've found records that aren't locked. I'm not sure how this all will look at the end of their project in the next couple of years. Ancestry, a fee-based family research resource service, has a number of Italian civil records, but not for every location...and these are accessible to US residents with a "World"membership. Even for areas for which this website has a lot of records, it may not have records for some municipalities. Also, many of these records are not transcribed, meaning that they are not text searchable; if that is the only way you are finding your records on Ancestry you might miss out on some Italian records. For example: If I'm looking for records for Nascio, which is part of the municipality of Ne (Genova, Liguria, Italia), I will need to search for records for what until recently was called the Province of Genova/Genoa. On Ancestry, a search of the Card Catalog will bring up the following resource -- "Genoa and La Spezia, Liguria, Italy, Civil Registration Records, 1866-1938 (in Italian)"; Select this option. Then select for Genova, then for Ne, then the type of record, followed by the desired year. Or, as stated earlier, since Nascio was part of the municipality of Casarza Ligure until 1 Feb 1877, I might search that municipality's records as well.Also, it appears that Ancestry and FamilySearch are partnering on records. I'm beginning to see Italian record resources in Ancestry's Card Catalog that clearly come from FamilySearch. I wonder if this may be a way to bypass some of the locks that FamilySearch has on international records on its own site. Indications suggest that this is a work-in-progress. The next year or two may give a firmer view of the direction of this partnership and its impact on the end user's access to international records.