On 26/08/18 09:25,
murphy.marcus@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi
I would like to find information about an Italian lady who was in our family generations back . I don’t have much to go on . Some of the my extended family and myself have quite sallow skin and rumour more than anything is that there was an Italian
lady a few generations ago.
My great grandmother who died about 12 years ago , her married name was Curley and I know another Curley family in south Dublin that are not known relatives of ours and they say that their family originated in Sicily and were in Athlone here and then
some of them moved to the us somewhere and became Mafia
Can anyone advise me how to research this please
It’s been at the back of my mind for so long
I'm replying direct and to the newsgroup.
From what you say it sounds as if you have no experience of
genealogical research at all. Your first step should be to get a good,
recent book on Irish Genealogy which will explain how to go about
things. There are some general hints in the FAQ section of
http://www.genealogy-britain.org.uk/ but this is aimed at Britain rather
than Ireland so, as an absolute beginner, buy something oriented to
Irish sources.
Whilst waiting for the book to arrive collect all the existing
documentation you can get about your family - birth/baptism, marriage
and death/burial certificates (you'll quickly learn to call this
information as BMD) and wills if there are any. This is your raw
material. You start working back from the present rather than looking
for ancestors you'd like to have and working forwards*.
Start reconstructing a family tree from this information. If you search
the web you'll find a variety of blank pedigree (family tree) forms that
you can download and print off. When the books arrive you'll find they
guide you as to where to look for further information.
HTH
Ian
*I have to admit that I did find a mention in a C18th diary of a John
Goddard who was fined for coming late to a book club and thinking that
someone interested in books but apt to be late must be an ancestor. He
was, in fact, my 5x ggfather but this was established by conventional means.
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