Promoting Italian family history and genealogy since 1993
September 2024
Finding Your Family by Researching the Neighbors: Italian Style
This presentation will focus on researching neighbors, the neighborhood, cluster, or FAN (family, associates, and neighbors), which are often key in tracing Italian migration patterns. This approach can often be the key to breaking through brick walls. When records left by our ancestors don’t tell their story, we look for the records of the people around them because our ancestors can appear in their records. The records of neighbors can also suggest new places for us to look for records created by our ancestors. Learn how to use this powerful method for advancing your research.
Annette Burke Lyttle, CG, owns Heritage Detective, LLC, providing professional genealogical services in research, education, and writing. She speaks on a variety of genealogical topics at the international, national, state, and local levels and loves helping people uncover and share their family stories. She is coordinator of the Foundations: The Research Process course and the Writing the Stories of Our Ancestors course for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. Annette leads Best Practices Study Groups for a number of organizations, providing in-depth education on the genealogical research process in an interactive setting. She is past president of the Association of Professional Genealogists and editor of The Florida Genealogist.
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Annette Burke Lyttle
