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NOTE: This course requires compulsory materials to be ordered.
The Book, “Finding Your Italian Ancestors – A Beginner’s Guide” by Suzanne Russo Adams, AG is available at GenealogyStore.com
Optional Print Course Material: Italian: Civil Registration Records - Part 1
*Course material will only be sent to students who are registered in the course.
Civil registration is one of the largest and most important record sets in Italian genealogical research. It is certainly the most accessible, due to the efforts of FamilySearch, and now the main Italian archive, in microfilming or digitizing these records.
In this course, we will delve deeper into three main types of records: birth records [both regular and supplemental], marriage records [including marriage banns and marriage supplements], and death records [both regular and supplemental]. Each type of record has different challenges as well as differences in format depending on the time period and/or location of its creation within Italy.
We will also delve more deeply into translating and abstracting these documents so that you can understand more fully how to find every piece of genealogically useful information they contain. You will learn how to spot discrepancies and information contained that is over and above what is generally given. Understanding the documents is the heart of the course and there will be much study required of the example documents.
You should have completed the Italian: Introduction to Research Outside of Italy and Italian: Language and Location courses, or have a good understanding of the content of those courses, before commencing this course.
Course Length: 7 weeks
MODULE 1
INTRODUCTION
What is Civil Registration?
Are There Special Considerations When Researching in Large Cities?
Ufficio dello Stato Civile [Civil Records Office]
What Form of Document Will You Get When Ordering from a Civil Records Office?
What Kind of Information Can Be Found in the Civil Records?
MODULE 2
REPORTING A BIRTH TO THE CIVIL RECORD OFFICE
A Child Was Born…Now What?
Civil Birth Records
Working with the Documents
Original & Supplemental Birth Records: What’s the Difference?
MODULE 3
MARRIAGE BANNS
Understanding Italian Marriage Banns
Working with the Documents
MODULE 4
MARRIAGE RECORDS
Understanding Italian Marriage Records
Atto della Solenne Promessa di Celebrare il Matrimonio [Act of the Solemn Promise to Celebrate Marriage]
Working with a Document
Atto di Matrimonio [Act of Marriage]
MODULE 5
MARRIAGE SUPPLEMENTS
Introduction to Marriage Supplements
Working with the Documents
MODULE 6
DEATH RECORDS
Understanding Italian Death Records
Allegati [Supplemental] Death Records and Annotations of Death
Working with the Documents
Italian Cemeteries and Other Places of Burial
APPENDICES
NOTE: This course requires compulsory materials to be ordered.
The Book, “Finding Your Italian Ancestors – A Beginner’s Guide” by Suzanne Russo Adams, AG is available at GenealogyStore.com
Optional Print Course Material: Italian: Civil Registration Records - Part 2
*Course material will only be sent to students who are registered in the course.
Civil registration is one of the largest and most important record sets in Italian genealogical research. It is certainly the most accessible, due to the efforts of FamilySearch (and now the main Italian archive) to microfilm and digitize these records. However, civil registration is more than just birth, death, and marriage records. In this course, we will delve into some of the more unusual civil records. We’ll not only learn what they are but also how to use these records. These records can be used to “flesh out” the history of your ancestors, providing unique details that may help you understand the ancestors in their social and political context.
We’ll also delve more deeply into the Italian resources available through FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, and Portale Antenati, the Italian government’s website. Collections available at Italian Archivi di Stato will be explored. Students will learn what types of documents these archives contain and how best to access them.
Course Length: 6 weeks
MODULE 1
ATTI DIVERSI [DIVERSE ACTS]
What are the Atti Diversi?
Atti Diversi: Late 19th Century Records
MODULE 2
REGISTRI DI POPOLAZIONI [POPULATION REGISTERS], SCHEDA [SCHEDULE] & FOGLIO DI FAMIGLIA [FAMILY SHEET]
Registri di Popolazioni [Population Registers]
Scheda [Schedule]
Foglio di Famiglia [Family Sheet]
Stato di Famiglia Storico [Historical State of the Family Certificate]
Certificato di Residenza [Certificate of Residency]
MODULE 3
CITTADINANZA [CITIZENSHIP RECORDS]
About Cittadinanza
Registri dell’Emigrazione e Passaporti [Emigration Registers & Passports]
Internal Travel Papers
MODULE 4
ANCESTRY.COM & FAMILYSEARCH
Websites
Ancestry.com
FamilySearch
MODULE 5
PORTALE ANTENATI & ARCHIVI DI STATO Websites
Antenati [Ancestors] or Portale Antenati
Navigating the Portale Antenati Website
Archivi di Stato [Provincial/State Archives]
Optional Print Course Material: Italian: Catholic Church Records - Part 1
*Course material will only be sent to students who are registered in the course.
Church or ecclesiastical records is one of the largest and most important record sets in Italian genealogical research. These records are becoming more available outside of Italy, due to the efforts of FamilySearch to microfilm and digitize these records, as well as a few other smaller projects. Yet, the majority of these records remain in the archives of Italy.
In this course we’ll look at how and why these records were created, what types of records can be found, and what genealogical information you may find. We’ll discuss what archives these records are conserved in and how to access the records.
Course Length: 7 weeks
MODULE 1
CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS
Introduction
When did ecclesiastical records begin and why?
Can I find my ancestors back to the beginning of ecclesiastical
records?
Understanding the Records
Language used in the records
MODULE 2
UNDERSTANDING ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTIONS & ARCHIVES
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions & Archives
Digitization, Filming, or Indexing Projects
MODULE 3
BAPTISMAL OR ECCLESIASTICAL BIRTH RECORDS
Birth & Baptism Record Examples
Working with the Records
MODULE 4
CONFIRMATION RECORDS
Confirmation Record Examples
Working with the Records
MODULE 5
ECCLESIASTICAL DEATH & BURIAL RECORDS
Death & Burial Record Examples
MODULE 6
PARISH RECORDS CASE STUDY
Summary
Optional Print Course Material: Italian: Catholic Church Records - Part 2
*Course material will only be sent to students who are registered in the course.
Church or ecclesiastical records are one of the largest and most important record sets in Italian genealogical research. These records are becoming more available outside of Italy, due to the efforts of FamilySearch to film and digitize these records as well as a few other smaller projects. However, most of these records remain in Italian archives.
In this course we will examine in detail the various forms of marriages records that were created and what genealogical information you may find in each.
Stato delle anime or State of the Souls records will also be covered and we’ll learn what a valuable resource these records can be, especially the further back in time you go.
Course Length: 6 weeks
MODULE 1
STATE OF THE SOULS RECORDS
Introduction to State of the Souls Records
Where Can These Records Be Found?
State of the Souls Records in Genealogy
Working with the Documents
MODULE 2
CATHOLIC MARRIAGE RECORDS & MARRIAGE BANNS
Marriage in the Roman Catholic Church
Marriage Banns
MODULE 3
ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE RECORDS
Introduction to Marriage Records
Working with the Records
MODULE 4
ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE SUPPLEMENTS
Introduction to Marriage Supplements
Impediments to Marriage
Working with the Records
MODULE 5
CASE STUDY
Final Summary
We describe the most important genealogical aids and derivative sources in order to efficiently plan and organize your research. You will learn how to access and efficiently utilize the millions of original sources available in microform at a Family History Center in your locality so you may obtain primary information and documentation. We explain the contents of online databases available free at Family History Centers through their new Portal, and other indexes and original records to be found uniquely at Family History Centers. New FamilySearch is explored as are many other new Latter-day Saints websites such as Record Search Pilot, FamilySearch Labs, FamilySearch Beta, the fantastic Wiki and many others.
In presenting what may be found at the forts, this course also presents a vignette on the early settlement of North America. Forts were built to serve a specific purpose, then, when a perceived danger subsided, the site may have served other uses or been abandoned and left to ruin.
Throughout the material are compilation listings of past and existing forts, which will leave you with a vital resource and reference list.
The Internet has become one of the major tools for assisting family historians with their research and a personal genealogical web page allows a genealogist to take advantage of this electronic medium for disseminating information. It is often quoted anecdotally that genealogy is one of the three biggest uses of the Internet. This kind of potential audience is simply unimaginable for a paper-based family history.
By the end of the course, each student should have a web page or a series of web pages written, coded, and uploaded to a web server and accessible to the public.
The overall assignment for the course is to produce and mount a web site on a server that is available to the public. The web site may consist of just one main page or a series of pages. The course itself is four weeks long, but you will have six weeks to complete your web site.
This class will continue on from the basic research class, with emphasis placed on going beyond your own personal genealogy to form a mutually beneficial community-based research protocol through networking with other researchers and participation in professional groups, societies, village-based associations, etc.
A comprehensive traditional and online reference list will be provided. Suggestions for additional resources will be encouraged and welcomed!
Publishing and sharing information and research data with others will also be discussed in detail.
AFTER NOVEMBER 2012
SCOTTISH: CENSUS RECORDS (Sheena Tait)
This course looks at the history, structure and contents of the 1841-1911 censuses of Scotland. Strategies for searching and locating the records will be discussed together with the limitations of the various sources. We will then look at the research possibilities of earlier census returns, together with their survival back to “Dr Webster’s census” of 1755. We will also look at the National Identity Register of 1939.
BEFORE JANUARY 2008
UNDERSTANDING SCOTLAND (Arlene Eakle)
This course represents the Jurisdictional Approach to Scottish Research. This approach makes it easier to find and access records themselves. It also emphasizes the context in which ancestors lived their lives. The importance of knowing the structure and relationship of government units to each other and to the population of Scotland cannot be overemphasized. Each unit had its own governing rights and created its own records. These records often paralleled or overlapped coverage of the people subject to that jurisdiction. In times of local chaos, loss of records by one unit can be compensated in the preservation of records in another.
AFTER JUNE 2012:
SCOTTISH: STATUTORY REGISTRATION (Sheena Tait)
Birth, marriage and death certificates are the fundamental building blocks of genealogical research in Scotland. This course looks at the development of the Statutory Registration system in Scotland. It will provide the practical details needed to understand the system of civil registration, where to find and how to use indexes and certificates. The course looks in detail at what the certificates can tell us and at the legislation which affected what was included in certificates at the different periods of time and in both copies of the registers and certified copies of the certificates.
BEFORE JANUARY 2008
BASIC SOURCES (Arlene Eakle)
The usual approach to building a pedigree is to begin at the local level, where records closer to the family members are kept. Tracing a Scottish family in 2004 requires a more efficient access to data. The General Register Office for Scotland (GRO-S) received official and mandated copies of many of the records we consider "local" (because they were collected at the local level). These records have been entered into a digital database, centrally and directly available to you—so, we begin here.
Jurisdictionally, we orient ourselves to the parish (district) and the county. Practically, we search the central database for these parish and county records. This will happen with several record categories required in your research because of the need of government officials to report, account for, collect, and preserve the records of your ancestors.
Four ''Live Online Meetings'' will be offered during this course.
This course does not qualify as a Certificate course in the Certificate in Genealogical Studies program. It will not have assignments to submit, or an exam to complete.
Due to the sensitive and confidential material in the majority of your searches, in lieu of a public forum of class chats, the instructor will be available to each student via email for the duration of the course for questions and concerns. A limited number of one-on-one instructor/student assistance by email will be available during this course. If more in-depth assistance is required, private consultations can be booked at an additional fee.
This course does not qualify as a Certificate course in the Certificate in Genealogical Studies program. It will not have assignments to submit, or an exam to complete.
Although this course is indicated as a 6 week class, you will have access to the instructor only during the first four weeks. The materials will be available to you for an additional two weeks.
TESTIMONIALS
I cannot say enough about you and your class. Your experience, insight and humor made the course so pleasant. I found my half-brother and we are meeting this weekend. Our first toast is going to be to you.
Louis, New York
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A million variables. But by following your advice, following thru and not giving up, we found our needle in the Haystack. 200 million Americans and we found one. If only the Katrina families/agencies had your know-how.
T.D, Chicago, IL
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Dear Linda Rakita,
The month of February 2006, will always be a special memory for me, as that’s when I began your class on adoption.
Having reunited years earlier with a childhood friend who’d been given up for adoption in 1955, who expressed a strong desire to find out about her birth family, and myself being ignorant of this type of research, it made sense to find someone who was not only a professional in this field but one who cared about her students and the class.
Looking back over the years and remembering all of my teachers, I can count only three who were outstanding & as a consequence, I did very well in those classes. Outside of the public school system, it is obvious to me that you also display high standards of excellence in your teaching.
I can’t remember when I’ve had so much fun with an instructor. You immediately sensed my passion for research. You responded to my questions in a very timely manner and sometimes you threw in what I’ll call, a treat—something you found on your own about a possible birth family member connected to my project. Of course this served to whet my insatiable hunger for deeper digging on my own!
This quest for answers on behalf of my friend at times, became emotionally charged and particularly so, the closer I reached the mark. I felt very comfortable pouring my heart out to you and am so thankful for the sensible as well as compassionate responses and advice from you. At times you sprinkled your messages with humor and your efforts did not go unnoticed and were most welcome.
In closing, I’d like to say that based on my experience with you, I know you’ll continue to be a beacon of light to others in whatever direction you travel. Thank you for enlightening me!
Sincerely,
Sandy, Tracy, CA
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Linda is very experienced in her field. She is intelligent, intuitive, resourceful and extremely competent - all important qualities needed for any successful searcher. In addition, she is an honest, sensitive and compassionate person who is passionate about her work. In my opinion, this makes Linda truly special.
Linda is someone who has total respect for the feelings and concerns of others. And she is experienced and wise regarding the complicated nature of human interaction and reaction.
Nancy, New York
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Four ''Live Online Meetings'' will be offered during this course.
This course does not qualify as a Certificate course in the Certificate in Genealogical Studies program. It will not have assignments to submit, or an exam to complete.
Although this course is indicated as a 6 week course, you will have access to the instructor only during the first four weeks. The materials will be available to you for an additional two weeks.
Four ''Live Online Meetings'' will be offered during this course.
This course does not qualify as a Certificate course in the Certificate in Genealogical Studies program. It will not have assignments to submit or an exam to complete.
Although this course is indicated as a 6 week course, you will have access to the instructor only during the first four weeks. The materials will be available to you for an additional two weeks.
Four ''Live Online Meetings'' will be offered during this course.
This course does not qualify as a Certificate course in the Certificate in Genealogical Studies program. It will not have assignments to submit or an exam to complete.
Although this course is indicated as a 6 week course, you will have access to the instructor only during the first four weeks. The materials will be available to you for an additional two weeks.
Four ''Live Online Meetings'' will be offered during this course.
This course does not qualify as a Certificate course in the Certificate in Genealogical Studies program. It will not have assignments to submit or an exam to complete.
Although this course is indicated as a 6 week course, you will have access to the instructor only during the first four weeks. The materials will be available to you for an additional two weeks.
Four ''Live Online Meetings'' will be offered during this course.
This course does not qualify as a Certificate course in the Certificate in Genealogical Studies program. It will not have assignments to submit or an exam to complete.
Although this course is indicated as 6 week, you will have access to the instructor only during the first four weeks. The materials will be available to you for an additional two weeks.
You will have the opportunity to discuss the course and any research problems with your instructor and fellow students during the four “live online meetings” which are part of this course.
This course will look at what resources you have may have used in the past and see how that may help you get started with your Native American research. We will cover many different resources that you may not have known existed when you began searching for your Native American ancestors. We will start by focusing on the different tribes, such as the Five Civilized Tribes, Early Eastern Tribes, Tribes of the Plains, California Indians, Indians of the Pacific Northwest, and finally the Métis and the First People of Canada. Each lesson has a different tribal focus providing a variety of sources.
Four ''Live Online Meetings'' will be offered during this course.
This course does not qualify as a Certificate course in the Certificate in Genealogical Studies program. It does not have required assignments to submit or an exam to complete.
Although this course is indicated as 6 week, you will have access to the instructor only during the first four weeks. The materials will be available to you for an additional two weeks.