Discovering Your Family Story - Genealogy Workshop Series: Workshop 3
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Discover Your Family Story: Workshop 3 – Tracing Your Family to Italy
A Four-Week Guided Genealogy Workshop Series
Workshop 1: Jan 13 – Beginning with What You Know
Workshop 2: Jan 20 – Finding Your Family in American Records
Workshop 3: Jan 27 – Tracing Your Family to Italy
Workshop 4: Feb 3 – Building and Preserving Your Family Story
Every family has a story worth discovering—and preserving.
The Naples Italian American Foundation is leading a four-week, hands-on workshop series designed to help participants begin building, organizing, and exploring their own family histories. Although we’ve completed the first two workshops, you’re still invited to join us for the remainder of the series.
Participants will work step by step with their own names, photographs, documents, family stories, and research questions in a welcoming and supportive setting. No previous genealogy experience is required.
What We Will Explore
Workshop 1: Jan 13 – Beginning with What You Know
Start with yourself and work backward. Identify the names, dates, places, photographs, documents, and family stories you already have, and learn how to organize them into a useful foundation for future research.
Workshop 2: Jan 20 – Finding Your Family in American Records
Explore census records, immigration and naturalization documents, passenger lists, military records, obituaries, cemetery records, and other sources that can help connect your family’s life in America with its origins in Italy.
Workshop 3: Jan 27 – Tracing Your Family to Italy
Learn how to identify your ancestral town and begin using Italian civil records, including birth, marriage, and death records. We will introduce Antenati and other resources and explain the basic structure of Italian records—even for those who do not speak Italian.
Workshop 4: Feb 3 – Building and Preserving Your Family Story
Bring your discoveries together into a family tree and a meaningful family narrative. We will discuss research organization, family history software, photographs, source documentation, DNA testing, and ways to preserve and share your work with children and grandchildren.
Workshop Details
📅 Two remaining consecutive Wednesdays: January 27 and February 3
🕒 3:00PM – 4:30PM – 90 minutes per session
📍 Naples Italian American Foundation
One registration covers both remaining workshops. Even if you missed the first two sessions, you can still benefit greatly from these workshops and make meaningful progress on your family history.
Participants may bring a laptop or tablet, although one is not required. Simple worksheets and take-home materials will be provided.
Registration:
*Register only if you have not already registered for the full series.
*NIAF Members: $25 for the remaining two workshops.
*Non-Members: $50 for the remaining two workshops
To reserve, call the Foundation office at 239-597-5210.
Space is limited to maintain a comfortable, interactive setting so reserve now.
Building, Organizing, and Preserving Your Family History
Supported in part by the Naples Italian American Foundation’s Cultural Heritage Endowment Fund.
A Four-Week Guided Genealogy Workshop Series
Workshop 1: Jan 13 – Beginning with What You Know
Workshop 2: Jan 20 – Finding Your Family in American Records
Workshop 3: Jan 27 – Tracing Your Family to Italy
Workshop 4: Feb 3 – Building and Preserving Your Family Story
Every family has a story worth discovering—and preserving.
The Naples Italian American Foundation is leading a four-week, hands-on workshop series designed to help participants begin building, organizing, and exploring their own family histories. Although we’ve completed the first two workshops, you’re still invited to join us for the remainder of the series.
Participants will work step by step with their own names, photographs, documents, family stories, and research questions in a welcoming and supportive setting. No previous genealogy experience is required.
What We Will Explore
Workshop 1: Jan 13 – Beginning with What You Know
Start with yourself and work backward. Identify the names, dates, places, photographs, documents, and family stories you already have, and learn how to organize them into a useful foundation for future research.
Workshop 2: Jan 20 – Finding Your Family in American Records
Explore census records, immigration and naturalization documents, passenger lists, military records, obituaries, cemetery records, and other sources that can help connect your family’s life in America with its origins in Italy.
Workshop 3: Jan 27 – Tracing Your Family to Italy
Learn how to identify your ancestral town and begin using Italian civil records, including birth, marriage, and death records. We will introduce Antenati and other resources and explain the basic structure of Italian records—even for those who do not speak Italian.
Workshop 4: Feb 3 – Building and Preserving Your Family Story
Bring your discoveries together into a family tree and a meaningful family narrative. We will discuss research organization, family history software, photographs, source documentation, DNA testing, and ways to preserve and share your work with children and grandchildren.
Workshop Details
📅 Two remaining consecutive Wednesdays: January 27 and February 3
🕒 3:00PM – 4:30PM – 90 minutes per session
📍 Naples Italian American Foundation
One registration covers both remaining workshops. Even if you missed the first two sessions, you can still benefit greatly from these workshops and make meaningful progress on your family history.
Participants may bring a laptop or tablet, although one is not required. Simple worksheets and take-home materials will be provided.
Registration:
*Register only if you have not already registered for the full series.
*NIAF Members: $25 for the remaining two workshops.
*Non-Members: $50 for the remaining two workshops
To reserve, call the Foundation office at 239-597-5210.
Space is limited to maintain a comfortable, interactive setting so reserve now.
Building, Organizing, and Preserving Your Family History
Supported in part by the Naples Italian American Foundation’s Cultural Heritage Endowment Fund.
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Where is it happening?
7035 Airport Pulling Rd. N., Naples, FL, United States, Florida 34109
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Host or PublisherNaples Italian American Foundation
