Your Abruzzese-Italian Heritage

Often it is important to know where we come from, there's a fuller sense of direction in one's life, in participating to a larger general design. All those who contributed to our genetical map are in a certain sense still living inside ourselves, wherever their physical existence took place. It may seem exaggerating, but you may answer many personal questions with a bit of undigging in your family's past, in the history, behaviours, customs that your father and mother took along and left to you, and that you maybe unconsciously are transmitting to your children. There's a special thrill when you find something that seemed lost forever, and maybe would, if you had not cared. From the dusty, crumbling papers of documents people who belong to what you now are come out of the mist of time and look at you silently, affectionately, waiting for you to decipher their stories, rescue them from oblivion and pass their as yet forgotten names and stories on to the next generations.
Genealogy, like all research, needs imagination, that special feeling that there must be something somewhere, and just the right stone must be moved, the right person interviewed, to connect the missing link. But each case is different; nevertheless, just to give a rough idea of the work, energies and knowledge involved, we have developed this introduction. We hope it is useful especially for those of you just beginning to undig your family history.
If you are interested in doing some genealogical research before joining one of our Heart of Italy Tours, we suggest you to contact us long in advance: by the time you'll be in Italy, you will be able to know about your Italian heritage, your ancestral places and (why not...) start to keep in touch with your long lost Italian Family!