UPCOMING EVENTS:

"Hot" Italian Links to Explore:

• Visit our Facebook page at  https://www.facebook.com/groups/930431287038610/

• Ancestry Academy at https://www.ancestry.com/academy/courses/  
• Some of the courses on the new Ancestry Academy are listed as free and some have a fee.

•  DNA:  Judy Russell, JD, CG, CGL is the "Legal Genealogist" at http://legalgenealogist.com.  
• Her blogs are great and she is a BIG fan of DNA testing. Sunday is the day she devotes her blog to DNA http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/category/dna/.  Her April 26th blog was called "A DNA Test Not To Bother With"  http://legalgenealogist.com/blog/2012/04/01/a-dna-test-not-to-bother-with/. One of the great things about her blog is that everything is cited as to its source.

• Comunes of Italy
• The former Comunes of Italy and Genealogy website has been closed down.  You can join them on http://italianancestry.com/coi/

• We The Italians Magazine (WTI)   Their mission statement is:  
• "We The Italians is an ongoing project open to any form of collaboration and partnership. Any contribution or content or news regarding Italy in the USA is welcome. Indeed, please use our platform to promote and improve any kind of info about what's Italian in the U.S."
• NOTE:  The link above will open the WTI website.  On the right column you will find the current issue of the WTI magazine.  When you open the current WTI issue, prior issues will appear in a column on the right.  Page 10 of the July 12, 2015 #64 WTI issue contains an article about our own FILIPPO MAZZEI as one of the "Great Italians of the Past."  

• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' Historical Research Branch  offers several webinars designed for beginning and advanced researchers.  
• "Webinars are an easy and free way to learn about the USCIS History, Library and Genealogy programs and services from agency historians, librarians and program representatives." Source:  USCIS Website
   
• The listing of Other Former PIP Chapters is no longer available.   You can search for Pursuing our Italian Names Together Chapters to locate a few with links to thier new web sites.

• The Italian Genealogy Homepage

• The Italian Embassy Homepage  
• (If this page is in Italian when it opens, click the letters 'EN' near the top right corner to translate it.)

• Italian Cultural Institute

• Italian Genealogical Group

• Abruzzesi

• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sources