In Italy, the churches keep marriage and baptismal records. At some point, they will be online. The Mormons did much of the database work in the US. As I recall, My first American ancestor came over about 1590, and listed his father and mother's vital statistics. They were from the Isle of Jersey, and I've e-mailed distant relatives, still there, that do genealogy. They haven't heard of him, but some of the old church records are missing or hard to research. The original name was Le Messurier, and that family did Crusades in the Middle Ages, and claims to trace it's origin to the Roman times. You see, I'm uber civilized, and that's why I use a spell check and don't say "fuck" in LiveJournal.
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Date: 2003-04-15 07:24 am (UTC)You see, I'm uber civilized, and that's why I use a spell check and don't say "fuck" in LiveJournal.