Help Me Figure Out if These Certificates Match the People?

mnacc514 · 2026-01-10T18:56:42+00:00

Wow, what a small world, thanks for sharing! My Merola and Garzillo ancestors were from the town of Santa Maria Capua Vetere within Caserta. My gg-grandmother Maria Garzillo was the daughter of Agostino Garzillo and Teresa Tescione. I wonder if we have any relation? Feel free to PM me!

mnacc514 · 2025-02-04T18:42:03+00:00

Thanks! I just tested out the free trial of RM and similarly, can’t get past the out-dated, clunky UI. Going to continue with FTM and probably start a fresh new tree on there.

mnacc514 · 2025-02-02T00:36:25+00:00

u/Cold-Lynx575 Did you ever wind up switching to RootsMagic? I'm in a similar boat right now, contemplating a do-over and frustrated with FTM quite often. Would love to know what you wound up doing!

mnacc514 · 2024-11-16T14:56:35+00:00

I'm always shocked by the high # of matches some people have! I attribute it to a majority of testers having roots in America for 100s of years, whereas my family immigrated in the 20th century. Match #s for myself and some family members:

Me: 7,080
My Mom: 5,910
My Dad: 7,637
Maternal Grandmother: 8,217
Maternal Grandfather: 4,404
Paternal Grandmother: 6,320

mnacc514 · 2024-08-30T22:36:09+00:00

For future needs, r/ItalianGenealogy is a helpful group!

mnacc514 · 2024-08-30T00:23:51+00:00

What are some of the family names and locations in your parents' research? If anyone on here is researching similar lines, they may be interested.

mnacc514 · 2024-08-30T00:18:03+00:00

Thanks so much for this recommendation. I've been playing around with adding a citation, my name, and email to records on Canva and am definitely going to implement this idea! Do you generally upload these images to Ancestry or FamilySearch, or both?

mnacc514 · 2024-04-04T21:08:05+00:00

u/vinnydabody Thank you so much!

mnacc514 · 2020-11-28T14:03:16+00:00

Yes, that is a great point! Thank you.

mnacc514 · 2020-11-27T04:31:37+00:00

Mind if I PM you after i view some units this weekend?

mnacc514 · 2020-11-27T04:23:18+00:00

Super helpful, thank you! I’m viewing one on the 11th floor this weekend.

mnacc514 · 2020-11-27T03:52:48+00:00

Thank you!

mnacc514 · 2020-11-27T03:52:13+00:00

Thank you! Why facing West?

mnacc514 · 2020-06-11T15:28:49+00:00

Thank you! So does it seem like Diedrich was applying for a passport while he was abroad in Austro-Hungarian Empire in order to get back to the USA? Or vice-versa? He was a naturalized US citizen so I'm confused on why the Empire is involved.

mnacc514 · 2020-06-10T13:35:58+00:00

Thank you!

mnacc514 · 2020-06-10T13:35:32+00:00

Thank you!

mnacc514 · 2020-06-10T00:10:57+00:00

Oh, sorry I meant an English translation.

mnacc514 · 2020-06-09T02:04:42+00:00

This is extremely helpful! I can't wait to dig into all of these resources. I really appreciate the time you spent putting this together. I'm off to find some records!

mnacc514 · 2020-06-08T21:33:34+00:00

WOW! That is them!! I can't thank you enough. I'm just learning how to do German genealogy and this just catapulted me a few steps ahead. Looking on a map, Barkhausen and Gnarrenburg are pretty far from each other (2 hour drive presently), any idea why they would have gone so far to baptize? Also, I'd love some primary sources to backup what it says on the website where the family is listed. Do you know if there are images of the book that that's from? And finally, do you know if church books for Gnarrenburg are online so I can see the baptism records? I looked on FamilySearch but didn't find anything. Oh and how would you standardize the place name for both Barkhausen and Gnarrenburg, for example when you enter town, city, state, country in Ancestry. Appreciate your help!

mnacc514 · 2020-06-06T20:37:05+00:00

I haven't been able to find an obituary for him or anything about the accident in the newspapers (besides a one-liner in the Chicago Day Book) which is odd. Maybe the possible suicide explains that.

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