Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I’d like to thank everyone for all the support in 2019. It was a great year. I know the posts have been a little slow the last few months but I’ve been working on a few other projects, a book to be completed next summer and planning a “Roots Trip” with some outstanding partners posted below. I’ll document the entire trip in the spring. Please sign up for emails to be kept up to date.
I’m working with two great partners in Italy for our trip in the spring. We are in the final stages of planning, but don’t wait for me to contact them. If you are considering a trip next year, wether it’s to search for roots, or just a well planned visit check them out below. Be sure to mention you found them through Italian Genealogy.
ItalyRooting Consulting is an Italian consultancy service which designs unique experiences of authentic Italian heritage in our marquee Rooting Style.
Our trademarked Rooting® philosophy is an experience of full immersion into the heart and spirit of Italy. The philosophy of Rooting demonstrates Italy as the land of excellence and the true expression of beauty in the world. Rooting imparts the sources of beauty, elegance and style that characterize Italian lifestyle and history. The sons and daughters of Leonardo and Michelangelo, descendants of a mother land of artists, inventors and artisans, have changed the world. Rooting is an invitation to reminisce in the mystery and beauty of Italy’s DNA.
We design all our product and service offerings in our proprietary Rooting Style. Rooting Style embodies Italian anthropology and the character and quality of Italian culture, providing a bridge to the true roots of Italy. Thanks to its countless applications, Rooting Style caters to those of any ethnicity that have an affinity for and appreciation of Italian lifestyle. Specifically for Italian descendents, Rooting Style creates a true connection for those that are looking to reconnect to their roots and to the people and places of their native land.
Through Rooting Style Travel we design unique and unparalleled travel experiences. We create, select and propose travel experiences that bridge travelers to the roots of Italian quality and culture. We also create custom reconnection journeys especially for Italian descendants that enable them to return to and experience their own familial roots of origin. We don’t sell tours, we create experiences with unique content in a narrative format. Travelling in Rooting Style accesses the best of Italy at its root and in its purest form, rendering the traveler not only a tourist, but a “Rootist”, an Italian among Italians. Our travel experiences are memorable events that go beneath the surface, enrich the senses, and touch the soul in the most intimate way. After travelling in Rooting Style, travelers leave forever changed and above all with the desire to share their experience with others and to return again and again.
Borghi Italia Tour Network is the exclusive tour operator of the association of “I Borghi più belli d’Italia” association and is responsible for promoting the heritage of the hidden parts of the country through the development of new and fascinating trip itineraries.The company’s unwavering dedication to its customers, coupled with its professionalism, creativity, and passion, allows Borghi Italia Tour Network to provide its customers with a unique travel experience.
It has achieved great results in proposing individual and group packages towards our destinations.
Our touristic offer is created to provide the customer with a unique and unforgettable experience within the Borghi. These old and fortified villages were built around a noble palace or a castle during the Medieval and Renaissance time.
The different themes that define each of our tour packages help to integrate the Borghi with important cities of art. These packages are outlined in our catalogue that comprises of over one hundred Borghi located all over the Country from the Alps (north of Italy) to the south, including Sicily and Sardinia.
The different options that one can choose from, focus in culture, art, nature, gastronomy, traditional costume, sport, spas and much more.
The feature that we are most proud of is our unique accommodations. They comprise castles, historical properties such as Venetians and Medici’s villas, charming country houses, and boutique hotels. These top quality accommodations have been strictly selected.
Magical Villages Energize for life: Discovering the precious Italy, its heart & soul!
Don't Forget out Good Friend Alessandro for Research!
Family – famiglia: maybe no other term can make it up any better to express my sense of belonging to the place I come from. Famiglia has always been the place where I leave from on every trip – and that is the place where I am glad to get back to when feeling you need to go home. Famiglia has been covering a place of its own in my heart ever since I was born – but what is that makes family so special? What can you call as being famiglia at the largest extent as you know it?
Back in 2006, there came a day when I started getting so much curious about those lines in the famiglia which I had never questioned myself about. It was then when my father told me that a great-uncle of mine went to America through Ellis Island that I realized I really wanted to discover who I am and where I come from.
I would never imagine where that research path would have brought me to. At that time, as an Italy-born taking his very dirst steps in family history research, I couldn’t expect the thrills of meeting second cousins in the States who had been waiting for decades to be greeted by their Italian family – and whose names had been so long unknown to me.
What is the Meaning of my Italian Last Name
During my research on the history of Italian Surnames, I came across this cool list of Fifty Italian Surname Meanings. See if your surname is on the list. You can also search our site for Gallo, Ricci, Bruno, Ferrari, Bianchi, Conti, Gallo, Greco, Russo, Esposito, Romano and Columbo for more information on the top 12 Italian Surnames. There are more than 350,000 Surnames in Italy, more than any other country. So don’t be surprised if
History of Calabria Italy
Little did I know, that when I began my family research, that I would have ancestors from Calabria. The Piromallo family was originally from Barcelona, Spain and eventually move to Naples. The “capostipite” or founder of the family was Count Domenico Piromallo, who died heroically, as commander of the Castle of Crotone in 1528. There’s not too much history to be found on the family until Francesco Antonio purchased Barony of Montebello in 1755 from
