Legacy Webinar - Researching your Italian Ancestors

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This week the Legacy Family Tree webinar is Researching your Italian Ancestors by Ruth Merriman.

"Your Italian ancestors are just waiting to be discovered! The availability of Italian records has increased exponentially in the past few years, making research much easier than it has been. In this overview, we will discuss how to find the records you need (on film, on site and on line)…"

Registration is free of charge and once the webinar is aired the recording is usually made available free of charge for a period of approximately one week.

To register click HERE. The webinar will be live at 6pm GMT +1hr on Wednesday 27th August 2014

Sutera as a Featured Study

Each month, the +Society for One-Place Studies features a registered study on their website. I am delighted that the webmaster selected Sutera to be the featured study for May 2014.

The Sutera study is, despite being an interest for at least the last twenty years still evolving. It has been very much slower to progress that the other two studies I registered with the Society.  The slowness because of a mixture of logistics, language amongst other things, but the focus, certainly of late has been to capture some of the more recent events and archive them.

My next plan is to transcribe the various records I already have and add the details to the Sutera Master Index. I also want to focus on the geological dimensions to the study. At the moment I am content with sharing the material via this blog and using "the cloud" for the master indexes and do not see the current need for a website, but if you disagree, please let me know, leave a comment and tell me what you think.

Sutera San Paolino L'acchianata

A L'acchianata translates from Sicilian dialect and means in English climbing. This demonstrates an ancient pilgrimage.

Sutera ~ A Pictorial Excursion

World War One Centenary Project

The next hangout for the Society for One-Place Studies is scheduled for Friday, 31st January 2014 at 8pm GMT. The subject for discussion is “A Shared Endeavour - Honouring the World War I Centenary”


You can watch the hangout live here or via the Society YouTube Channel

Society of One-Place Studies Hangout - Choosing Your Place

A very interesting discussion took place today; The Society for One-Place Studies monthly hangout. The subject for discussion was Choosing your Place.

Sutera circa 1930

Sutera is the Port of call.....

The Sutera One-Place study is featured as the Port of Call in the 2nd edition of Destinations the newsletter of the Society for One-Place Studies

The newsletter is only available to members of the Society, but you can read about the Society and join by clicking the link above.

Sutera - A sense of time and place

This morning I came across this delightful short video. From it, you can truly get a sense of time and place.

Sutera Records on Family Search

Image courtesy of Family Search

Family Search, I have discovered have placed some material for Sutera online, which is fabulous.

Obviously the records are in Italian and I am starting to slowly transcribe the material.

A link to the records available is HERE

Population of Sutera

Source ISTAT - The Italian National Institute of Statistics

Background to Sutera

Sutera sits within the province of Caltanissetta in Sicily and stands 580m above sea level. A medieval town with ongoing expansion from the 16^th Century, it overlooks the hills and the River Platani.

Sutera is a short distance from the national road SS121-189, which links Palermo and Agrigento. The land is typically sulphurous.

Sutera has been since the late 1800s a spearhead in Italian geology and is well associated with mining of Sulphur and Potassium salts. Oil has been extracted from the nearby town of Gela, a practice which continues to this day.

The history of Sutera is said to be the story of devotion to St Paoline and St Onofrio.  The Castle of Sutera was located on top of Mount San Paolino, at 819m above sea level. The Church of St Paoline dates from the 7^th Century with the temple built around 1370.

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Sutera Piazza - 1920-1930