[Genealib] Italian research

[Tom Kemp]

Since Columbus Day is celebrated twice this week - on Monday the 8th
and on the traditional day Friday the 12th I am posting a few titles
of interest for Italian research.

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The first is Robert Franz Foerster's The Italian Emigration of Our
Times published by Harvard. This thorough book should be read by all
genealogists interested in Italian family history. It describes the
emigration from Italy not only to the US but to Switzerland, Argentina
etc., and in turn the second migrations to other countries and those
returning to Italy. Foerster discusses the migration from Italy from
the earliest times but his focus is the pace of migration from each of
the regions of Italy from 1876 to 1909. He gives charts and tables
throughout the text. Note the useful table on page 529 showing the
numbers of migrants from 1876-1886, 1887-1900, 1901-1909.

Foerster, Robert Franz. The Italian Emigration of Our Times.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1919. 556p.
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The second is a scarce item about Italian migration to Argentina and
the impact the Italians had on the agricultural economy and practices
there.

Conti, Marcello. L'Argentina come paese di immigrazione e di
colonizzazione agricola. Florence, Italy: G. Ramella, 1908. 19p.
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The last title is a very scarce and unusual manual for Italian
immigrants. Written in Italian and published in Sao Paulo, Brazil, it
briefed them on the law and on what they could expect in Brazil. Sao
Paulo encouraged migrants to build their economy.

Rotellini, Vitaliano. La legge di immigrazione e colonizzazione per lo
stato di San Paolo. Messaggio, legge, commenti; una lettera al
"messagero" di Roma. Sao Paulo, Brazil: Fanfulla, 1901. 30p.
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As a free service we are going to make it easy for you to build
yourgenealogy library.

Every day we will highlight a few genealogy and local history books
which you may download and keep. These files (PDF) are fully
searchable. So at any time you may quickly search them and find your
ancestors.It is our intention to make this a simple and easy way to
build your genealogy library.
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