You Tube Wiki Wizard in Italy

YouTube instructional videos teaching you to use Italy birth, marriage, and death civil certificates and church records to discover the genealogy and history of your Italian ancestors.

Wiki Wizard in Italy with the FamilySearch Research Wiki

 * Part 1: The Italy Main Page: How to use the Italy Genealogy main page as an index to topic articles, province pages, research tools, resources, and strategies for family history research.


 * Part 2: An Italy Province Page: How to use a FamilySearch Research Wiki page for a specific province in Italy for links to civil registration and church records. Helps for locating and reading reading Italian genealogical records.


 * Part 3: Finding a Birth Certificate Online, Italy: Using the FamilySearch Research Wiki to locate online Italian birth certificates. Translating the certificate.


 * Part 4: Finding a Marriage Certificate Online, Italy: Using the FamilySearch Research Wiki to locate and translate marriage certificates in the records of Italy.


 * Part 5: Finding a Death Certificate Online, Italy: Using the FamilySearch Research Wiki to locate and translate death certificates in the records of Italy.


 * Part 6: Writing for a Birth, Marriage or Death Certificate, Italy: How to use the Italy Letter Writing Guide in the FamilySearch Research Wiki to write to a civil registrar in Italy and order a birth, marriage, or death certificate.


 * Part 7a: Finding a Church Baptism Record Online, Lesson: Using the FamilySearch Research Wiki to locate online Italian baptism records in church records for genealogy. Translating the certificate.


 * Part 7b: Finding a Church Baptism Record Online, Case Study: A case study using the FamilySearch Research Wiki to locate online Italian baptism records in church records for genealogy. Translating the record.


 * Part 8: Finding a Church Marriage Record Online: Using the FamilySearch Research Wiki to locate online Italian marriage records in church records for genealogy. Translating the record.


 * Part 9: Finding a Church Death/Burial Record Online: Using the FamilySearch Research Wiki to locate online Italian death and burial records in church records for genealogy. Translating the record.
 * Part 10: Writing to a Priest for Church Records: Using the Italy Letter Writing Guide to write to a priest in Italy to ask him to search the church records for you.


 * Part 11: Finding Your Town of Origin in Italy: Home Records: Searching documents commonly found in homes for emigration information on Italy ancestors. Interviewing older relatives. Searching compiled family trees and printed genealogy books.


 * Part 12: Finding Your Town of Origin in Italy: U S Records: Using United States census records, vital records, cemetery records, obituaries, Social Security records, and military records to find the town of origin for an Italian emigrant for genealogy.


 * Part 13: Finding Your Town of Origin in Italy: Passenger Lists and Naturalization Records: Using passenger lists and petitions for citizenship to find the town of origin for an Italian emigrant for genealogy.