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Top 4 Websites to Research your Italian Family History

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In this post, I will rank websites from worst to best based on how helpful they are for researching your Italian family history. Having the right tool can sometimes save you hours of time, effort, and most importantly -  money. Click on the orange headings to go to the sites. 4. Ancestry This may be surprising to you, because Ancestry is one of the largest genealogy websites there is. However, looks can be deceiving.  If you look just beneath the surface, you will see that most basic features are stuck behind a costly monthly subscription and that you are very limited if you want to go without throwing your money at it. Even their most popular feature - DNA matching - is restricted with paywalls. You can't look at common ancestors, you can't see their trees. They don't even have Italian records.  The closest they offer are migration records to the USA , which you have to have a subscription for. Overall, I would not recommend Ancestry for Italian genealogy.   3. MyHe...