ItalyHeritage: Keep in Touch with your Roots

Mater Dolorosa - Our Lady of Sorrows - silver pendant

Wherever they went in the world, Italians brought along a cultural background of thousands years of history, art, traditions, music, cuisine. It is the mission of their descendants to keep the great heritage of Italy alive, and our mission to help offering:

insights into the very soul of Italian cities, towns and villages and the great wealth of historical, cultural, artistic and natural beauties;
genealogy research, records, documents, archives, to help the descendants of Italians to get back to their roots through research;
articles and videos, to rediscover the importance of the traditions that forebears kept as their special treasure in their quest for a better future.

Italian Genealogy

A collection of records and indexes from archives, research, libraries and cemeteries, mostly Abruzzo, some from Molise and Lazio; a guide to research, and to Italian citizenship for descendants of Italiant emigrants, an archive of postings for Abruzzo and Molise since 1999.

Italian Regions and Provinces

Abruzzo portal

Online since 1997 as Abruzzo 2000, this section offers insight into the culture, history, traditions, art, towns and villages in the Abruzzi region; also guestbook archive, news archive, itineraries, events, a shop.

Let's Learn Italian

Improve your Italian language: a beginner's Italian course, literature, video recipes to learn Italian while cooking, excerpts from movies and documentaries, with parallel English translation for a full immersion in true Italian-speaking situational contexts.

Heritage ezine

Articles about research, genealogy, and the traditions that our forebears kept as their special treasure in their quest for a better future, and the great wealth of historical, cultural, artistic and natural beauties of Italy.