Italian Genealogy Begins with Understanding the Records
Radici helps family historians navigate Italian civil, parish, and archival records by explaining the institutions, jurisdictions, and historical changes that shaped them.
Knowing a name is only the beginning. To find the record, you also need to understand who created it, where copies were sent, and where it may be preserved today.
Records Are Created by Systems
A comune, parish, diocese, tribunal, archive, or former government may each hold a different part of your family’s story.
Radici explores how these systems intersect—and how understanding them can lead you to records that ordinary name searches miss.
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About Janet
I’m Janet Schiller, an Italian American genealogist, researcher, and teacher with deep family roots in Tuscany. I hold an Ed.D. from Harvard University and spent approximately thirty-five years as a policy analyst—work that taught me to examine evidence closely and understand how institutions shape the information they preserve.
Today I apply those habits to Italian genealogy, teach other researchers, and write about the records, places, and archival systems that connect families with their Italian roots.
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