OLLI101582 - Writing Italian Immigration into our Family Stories
Course Description
WRITING ITALIAN IMMIGRATION INTO OUR FAMILY HISTORIES
Instructor: Benjamin Lariccia
Day of Week: Thursdays
Dates: June 6 – July 25 (7 sessions)
No Class: July 4
Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Location: In-person at Center City
With more historical records coming online and with the aid of software, Italian Americans now have many tools to discover and record their family histories. This course will review the events in Italian and U.S. history that drew Italians to the Delaware Valley. Instruction will include the basics of Italian American genealogy. We will also have the opportunity to share our family stories in class and to discover paths to publication.
Maximum: 25
Instructor Bio: Ben Lariccia is a contributing writer at La Gazzetta Italiana newspaper. He is a member of the Italian American Studies Association and the America Italy Society of Philadelphia. Ben has coauthored two studies on Italian immigration: Coal War in the Mahoning Valley: The Origin of Greater Youngstown’s Italians and Italians Swindled to New York: False Promises at the Dawn of Immigration. Since 1999, he has worked with Stato Civile documents to recover vital records from official Italian sources.
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