Your Italian Roots
Genealogy services
Uncover your family History
Perhaps you want to reconstruct your family tree, or you want to learn all about that ancestor of yours who first left Italy to seek a new life. Whatever your goal, I can support you on what will surely be an exciting adventure. After a free preliminary assessment, we can begin the "ancestor hunt". All the important events in the lives of our ancestors – emigrations, marriages, births – have left some trace. Taken together, these traces can tell us a lot about the -often intense and surprising- lives of the people from whom we descend.
About me
Letizia Lipari
I was born and raised in Sicily, in a small town near the sea.
Here I began, as a young girl, to reconstruct my family tree, and then I
moved on to that of others. I have always felt in my element in archives
and libraries. My love for history and stories has been the common thread
that has guided my choices of study and work: after a degree in ancient
literature I began working as a history teacher and as a tourist guide,
and then also as a genealogist.
In September 2020, following a job call, I moved to Piedmont. Can you
imagine a place more distant, physically and metaphorically, from the sea
and Sicily? Here another adventure began: new work, new challenges, and above
all new stories to discover and new archives to rummage through.
Today I live in Turin, but I periodically return to Sicily, where I spend
part of the year. I continue to regularly visit archives and libraries in
both regions.
Services
Genealogy research
Through genealogy research we can uncover your family history, going back through generations. I can trace your family tree back to the earliest possible ancestor, or I can try to find out everything about that mysterious great-grandparent you've heard about.
I have an education in creative writing: from this I have borrowed a personal way of seeing genealogy, which for me it is not just as a set of names and dates. It is putting together the pieces of a family saga, it is uncovering stories. For this reason, my research includes – whenever possible – documents such as passenger lists, letters, newspaper articles, transfers of ownership, city chronicles: in short, all those sources capable of making the past speak.
Transcription and translation
Did you inherited a box on hand-written, old Italian letters and don´t know how to decipher them? I can help you with that.
Ancestry tours
As a tour guide, I can accompany you to discover your ancestors' hometowns. You'll literally walk in their footsteps, discovering the traditions and culture of their homeland, and perhaps meeting living relatives you never knew you had.
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If you'd like to uncover your family history with me, contact me via the form or email.