Back to Your Italian Roots

Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 11/22/2019 - 00:00
Liz Zito’s story is one of perseverance. Her Italian parents, born in small Calabrian villages, migrated to Australia separately – her father in 1925, her…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 07/05/2019 - 00:00
Marilyn Ricci grew up “100% Italian-American” in St. Paul, Minnesota, surrounded by the love and warmth of her Italian American family, and especially her…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 05/17/2019 - 00:00
[Photo: Pamela McCollough traveled to Abruzzo to search for her relatives...and found them!] Pamela McCollough, a retired modern language educator, traveled to…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 04/19/2019 - 00:00
For our series ‘Back to Your Italian Roots,’ where we share stories of readers who have traveled to Italy to reconnect with relatives and visit their ancestral…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 03/22/2019 - 01:00
For our series ‘Back to Your Italian Roots,’ where we share stories of readers who have traveled to Italy to reconnect with relatives and visit their ancestral…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 10/26/2018 - 00:00
[The Corsi family.] “Italy first captures your attention, and then captures your heart,” says Dawn Mattera, who has traveled to Italy numerous times to search…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 08/16/2018 - 00:57
[Janet Nelson with the mayor of Valdieri.] It takes courage to leave the small mountain town where you were born and grew up to sail across the ocean and into…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 06/29/2018 - 00:00
[From left to right, Deborah Caponera, husband Greg, Sergio Caponera and Simonetta Zander at the Comune -city hall- in Fumone researching records.]  Growing up…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 03/30/2018 - 00:00
[Photo: Maurice Petch, second from right, with his wife Angela next to him, with members of his family in Italy he had never met before.] Italy Magazine’s ‘…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 02/23/2018 - 00:00
We feel very honored that our readers are choosing to share their heritage travel stories with us, and we continue our ‘Back to Your Italian Roots’ series…