I'm having difficulty finding

01/28/2018 - 09:33

I'm having difficulty finding information in italy on my ancestors. Does anybody have suggestions on where to look? I have accounts with ancestry.com and myheritage.com, but haven't found a lot. 

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I don't have a lot of details. My mom didn't know a lot and some of what she thought she knew was wrong. I know both of their birth dates and that they came from Lucca. I have found some things on my grandfather, whom I never met, but nothing on my grandmother. It's almost like she didn't exist,  which I know she did because I spent time with her until she died when I  was 15. Oh, and I have the date they were married, but can't find any record of that either.

I would buy copies of their death certificates and if you don't already have it your mothers birth cert.  It could be that your grandmother was called by a different name to what was her official name.  Also her surname could have been mispelt.I guess you are in US due to 'Mom' ?  So not so easy to get to Lucca.  I had problems like you and then found relatives in Canada and US who could tell me the correct family surname!  I then found the family were from the top corner of Tuscany and off I went..... The records office there gave me full family details for 4 generations.  Good luck with your search.Joy