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IN AMALFI: SEARCHING FOR MY LONG LOST FAMILY | ITALIAN ANCESTRY | AMERICAN IMMIGRATION HISTORY

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An American going back to Italy? Follow Marissa, as she takes a boat and travels back to her family's original small town in Southern Italy... Amalfi!
When Marissa first visited Italy, she was an American tourist who was visiting the country she knew her family once came from. She didn't know anything about her family's past. Years later, she decided to learn more about her Italian family that generations ago left Italy and immigrated to the United States.
In today's video we are in Amalfi, the beautiful cliff side town on the stunning Amalfi Coast. In 1890, when Marissa's great-grandfather was born, Amalfi was a simple fishing village. Today, the Amalfi Coast receives more than 5 million visitors a year and is one of the most sought after destinations in the world. While most people know Amalfi for the private boat rides, 5 star hotels, and lemon gelato, Marissa is here for other reasons: to see if she has roots in Amalfi.
Join Marissa as she tries to find clues about her great-grandfather's life in Amalfi - she will make some amazing discoveries along the way and give advice as to how you can do your own genealogical research! Watch to learn how!
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@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

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@ramadamming8498 2 ай бұрын

Well, they left because it was dirt poor and chaotic politics with ideas of unification.🙂

@annatomasso5226 2 ай бұрын

OMG did this take me back to when I was exploring my own Italian background. My paternal grandfather' parents were in the USA for two years before they returned to Vallerotonda and my grandfather spent his schooling in Italy returning to the his USA hometown and never visiting his parents, aunts and uncles or even brother. Boy was it a journey, I took my entire senior year in high school (2009) to find the hometown that my grandfather was from. My grandfather died not speaking a word of Italian to his children nor telling them which of the 20 regions he came from. It was very powerful experience, because my grandfather died 9 years before I was born and by my high school graduation it was the 10th anniversary of my own father's passing. When I first visited in 2014, even though the language was strange I felt like I had come home. Since then I have visited Vallerotonda 2 other times.

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

Hi Anna, thank you for sharing your story! It certainly is a powerful experience to visit a place where you have family history. I am glad you were able to visit the town so many times and that it feels like home. Thanks for watching!

@GhyuRtyu 2 ай бұрын

60% of the population of Argentina are Italian and iam one of them they left cos of poverty

@DG-mb1us 2 ай бұрын

My grandfather's brother waited too long to join his brother in US, entry was closed. He went to beautiful Buenas Aires. I would like to visit some day.

@nhlbluesgirl7045 2 ай бұрын

Love the video! My great grandparents came from Southern Italy and I am hoping to do the same thing you did. I am just starting to learn Italian to help me on my journey. I want to experience Italy as a local, not a tourist. 🇮🇹

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching it! It's a great idea to learn some Italian, it really helped me a lot when doing all this research. Best of luck on your search!

@TheSicilianLife 2 ай бұрын

Love how you are following your roots. Ferries are the best! Love your comments and perspective. Refreshing! 🥰

@Queerz4Palestein 2 ай бұрын

I got my roots taken off by my dentist

@angelaberni8873 2 ай бұрын

Im so proud of you. Your Italian is amazing and you are so proud of your roots as you should rightly be so.❤

@DG-mb1us 2 ай бұрын

Great job discovering your roots! It's well worth it. I got copies of my grandparents birth and marriage certificate in their Italian town and the rest in the US. I now have dual citizenship and plan more time in Italy and Europe.

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

Thank you - I 100% agree that it's well worth the time it takes to do all this research. Enjoy your time in Italy!

@roxyblu7187 2 ай бұрын

Che nostalgia di Salerno, la mia città natale e della costiera amalfitana.

@IndritBonati 2 ай бұрын

The same is happening today in Albania. Lots of people are leaving a beautifull seaside mediterranean country, with a wonderful climate to go to north europe where the sky is always gray!! I guess there are two kind of people, spiritualists and materialists. Spiritualists can never leave such a beautiful place, or any kind of place which is their home, materialists can do that. I guess your great grand father was a materialist!!

@gibememoni 2 ай бұрын

no jobs in italy or albania

@JS-cj7jf 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating video! It is a intriguing journey to search for one’s roots.

@rebeccagutierrez1960 2 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you got to visit the land of your ancestor. I visited the Amalfi Coast in 2019, and it was quite exciting. I recently returned from Girona, Spain, visiting for the first time the area where one of my ggggrandfathers was from. He ended up in the island of Puerto Rico. I was thrilled to visit his original city of Girona.

@SOLDATT 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the great presentation, very spiritual and well composed, you are all wonderful 👍

@honeybeejourney 2 ай бұрын

Very intereswting hearing your history.

@nathaliesanz-v3p 2 ай бұрын

Siete molto inspirante per mio suogno, desiderio di ritrovare mie radici! ! Grazie Marissa e Davide! Mio bisnonno si chiamava PERE PRADELLI ( pur toppo non ho il posto o la data di nascita). Io sono nata a Spagna e adesso sono en Vancouver Canada. Mi mamma mi ha detto che lui cresceva de Vigne en VAL D'AOSTA, e aveva un asino... (hahaha). Sua sorella si chiamava Maria e suo fratello era prete. O trovato troppo nuomi PRADELLI nel mondo per sapere quale sono le stessi discendenti de mio bisnonno. 🙏♥

@lntersteIIa5555 2 ай бұрын

a somewhat unusual name for an Italian, is it possible that his name was Piero?

@hesamniaz6980 2 ай бұрын

@@lntersteIIa5555ah yes great observation! Thank you! It makes me think also that “PERE” is similar to “PÈRE” in French as the Val d’Aosta is so close to the boarder and that would be a familiar way to refer to him.. We know he must be born near the 1890.. since he went to fight the WWI. Also since his brother was priest I wonder which of the MANY Churches has a list of the names! 😊Grazie

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

Grazie per il tuo commento @nathaliesanz7851 Ti auguriamo tanta fortuna per la tua ricerca. Siamo sicuri che con un po' di pazienza riuscirai a trovare le informazioni che cerchi. Un abbraccio!

@RichDItalianTenor 2 ай бұрын

Ciao Marissa, as soon as I saw the headline, I knew you must have some New Haven connections. Then I saw the record from Meriden. All of the Amalfitani (well at least 95% of them) ended up in New Haven. I'm sure you knew that. Bel video, grazie mille

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

It's so interesting how people from the same town in Italy often went to the same town in the USA. I would think it was to have a community from home. Thanks for watching!

@user-pg7iq8zd5u 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating...thx for sharing....

@westernnut8407 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for taking us along on this adventure. I have hopes of doing the same kind of discovery of my ancestors in the UK. Your strategies have been very helpful.

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

I am so glad the strategies I shared have been helpful - thank you for watching!

@peggysoumakis1758 2 ай бұрын

War. Poverty. Hunger. When Grandpa left, he probably sent money back home to help family in the old country. Yes, it's very beautiful. Now, you can go back and live comfortably

@Ekam-Sat 2 ай бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing.

@Oohmyymiaa 2 ай бұрын

Exactly

@tinabraxton4906 2 ай бұрын

This woman must be extremely stupid, if she did not know that and couldn't figure it out.

@emanueleroncolato9616 2 ай бұрын

It's still like this in Amalfi. Only few and poor jobs. Economics in the South of Italy can't sustain a family. The most of them live with national help for poor people

@angelaberni8873 2 ай бұрын

@emanueleroncolato9616 look at poverty in the UK and USA!!!! Don't need to go to Italy. At least there they are eating excellent Mediterranean fresh food and not the junk shit that Americans and English generally eat 😂😂😂. Italian women still know how to cook. Not sure how long that will last though as every new generation is starting to become lazier and heat up microwave crap.

@Just_another_Euro_dude 2 ай бұрын

Looks incredibly similar to parts of the Montenegrin coastline, like Boka Kotorska. The bay of Kotor.

@fabianpatrizio2865 2 ай бұрын

I've often thought that! So many Italians I know (me included) had parents/ grandparents who left amazing towns, coastal areas etc etc.....hard to understand why when you see these places....was obviously for economic/ war reasons though :)

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

Agree! Amalfi was a very different place in 1906, so he would have thought about it very differently than we would today. Thank you for watching!

@Oohmyymiaa 2 ай бұрын

They left due to poverty.

@Sil7531 2 ай бұрын

They starved

@DG-mb1us 2 ай бұрын

Bel Italia, it was a moving experience when I found my grandmother's house. They left for economic reasons, sometimes due to wars ...

@DG-mb1us 2 ай бұрын

Bel Italia, it was a moving experience when I found my grandmother's house. They left for economic reasons, sometimes due to wars ...

@kaloarepo288 2 ай бұрын

Probably because of overpopulation and poverty - and therefore lack of employment opportunities. My parents had to leave Italy (from the Veneto region) after the Second World War because of poverty - but Italy recovered during the "Dolce Vita" era. And often wonder why we left!

@michelemercadante1766 2 ай бұрын

My father was from Amalfi Pogerola!!! Love to Amalfi!!!

@sereynadyesabel1764 2 ай бұрын

New subscriber here! Your story is to captivating and your beautiful way of delivering it makes me subscribed immediately! ;-) So emotionally beautiful the way you and your Italian boyfriend tracked all those info about your ancestors origin. Buona vita a voi due! :)

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words and for subscribing, happy to have you in the Travel Dialogues family!

@EvaTheodoridouedessa 2 ай бұрын

Zeus everywhere because south Italy its magna Grecia 😊💙💙🌹🌹

@LeeMoraglio 2 ай бұрын

Hi Marissa and Davide. I found this very interesting. I was able to locate the long-form birth records for my 2 Italian grandparents and 4 Italian great-grandparents, all of whom were born in the same small town in Puglia. A lot of the street names that were listed on the birth records I found don't currently appear on Google Maps, so I was wondering what you would recommend I do to try to find those streets whose names have likely changed? Did the historical record library help you at all with old street names, or do you just have to walk around and ask elderly residents who might remember? I am currently pursuing Italian citizenship by blood and hope to visit my ancestors' hometown in the near future. I'm really glad that you were able to learn so much during your visit to Amalfi. Grazie mille.

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

Hi Lee, I am glad you found this video interesting! In order to find the streets of your grandparents/great-grandparents, I'd recommend contacting the Archivio Storico or the library of the town. They are the ones who told me where the old street would have been. But I was also lucky because I talked to a woman who lives on that street and she confirmed that it was in fact Via Campo. So I'd say both the Archivio Storico/library and talking to residents is the way to go!

@pasksaxorum5088 2 ай бұрын

Bella la storia di Domenico,mi ha commosso.

@patriciasandler1562 2 ай бұрын

I have to tell you thank you for giving me the site Ancestors Portal. I had traced my family in Nola di Napoli and Somma Vesuviana, but with the help of the portal, I was able to see the birth certificate of my great grandfather Francesco Rubino and to determine for sure the names of my great great grandfather and grandmother on my father, Giuseppe DeSimone born in Somma Vesuviana.

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

Hi Patricia, that is so exciting, I am so glad the video was helpful. I know when I saw my great-grandfather's name, I was so excited! It's one thing to hear where they were from, but another to see it in black and white. Thanks for watching!

@patriciasandler3964 2 ай бұрын

My pleasure. I also saw your adventure in Turi.

@ccapoccia 2 ай бұрын

17:48 Your Grandfather’s final destination was recorded on the manifest as New Haven, Connecticut written as “N. Haven Conn”. You can compare it the next entry which has it as “New Haven Conn”.

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

This is why KZfaq is so great - thank you for solving that mystery!

@flukos79 2 ай бұрын

Amalfi is beautiful but Positano.... My goodness

@ictfc1897 2 ай бұрын

Amalfi coast is beautiful, but it is so crowded, filled by tourists....and yes NEVER ever try to drive along the coast road....is pure madness, narrow and busy....I got to Amalfi twice in recent years...one by ferry and one by bus....

@AntonioGallinaro 2 ай бұрын

Ciao, la ricerca sulle proprie origini è straordinariamente affascinante. Ti scrivo in italiano perché vedo che lo comprendi. Ora potresti provare ad andare più indietro negli anni utilizzando i registri digitalizzati sul portale antenati. Ad esempio, potresti provare a cercare l’atto di matrimonio tra i genitori del tuo bisnonno. Se sei fortunata, potresti trovare il cosiddetto “Processetto matrimoniale”, che è una sorta di fascicolo in cui si raccoglievano i documenti necessari per il matrimonio, nel quale potresti trovare notizie sorprendenti ed anche emozionanti. Buona ricerca!

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

Ciao Antonio, grazie del commento! Stiamo continuando la ricerca, che ovviamente sarà molto lenta perchè trovare ognuno di questi singoli documenti a volte richiede tempo e soprattutto fortuna. Non sapendo le date esatte, a volte bisogna cercare nei registri anno per anno. Grazie del consiglio sui "Processetti matrimoniali". Non li conoscevamo!

@gloriaoppen8412 2 ай бұрын

Is this the same Davide who sends Italian email lessons?

@johnspencer6744 2 ай бұрын

Quanto è bella Marissa ❤

@michaelhoran407 2 ай бұрын

What do all those people in Amalfi do for a living? Are there market gardens?

@giulianolonghi5467 2 ай бұрын

Grazie e un abbraccio grande a tutti voi italiani nel mondo!!!

@roxyblu7187 2 ай бұрын

Grazie. Saluti da Monaco di Baviera

@ledatufarulo7316 2 ай бұрын

But lemons arrive in Amalfi coast during the middle age, so greeks mithology about lemons is an invention! Fantady

@luclasaw 2 ай бұрын

Yor nose says that you have italian roots! Italy is the most beautiful country in the World

@davidesperanza7701 2 ай бұрын

Because there is little work in those places and that little is poorly paid and perhaps illegal

@gmm5550 2 ай бұрын

ehum Italy as the most south europe was a very different place back then, have older Italian friends that fled from italy even in the 1970 ties for new life and work in Sweden. Back then Italy was a extremely cheap country the working class swedes went on holiday and sun.

@tobascogladiomatteo4843 2 ай бұрын

Because people do not eat beauty and views...

@pile333 2 ай бұрын

You indeed do look beautifully Mediterranean.

@deemo5245 2 ай бұрын

‘Kissed by god’, aka there’s some nature around and not just concrete

@angelaberni8873 2 ай бұрын

I dont understand why she didnt ring that doorbell that had the same surname as one of grandparents. I most certainly would have.

@Ekam-Sat 2 ай бұрын

There are no perfect choices. Your grandfather did the best he could to survive. Quality of life definitely is better in Italy right now but again; you need money. Blessings.

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

Of course! Amalfi in 1906 was a totally different place than it is today. While I can't be 100% sure why my great grandfather left, I would guess economic opportunities in the USA was a big factor.

@camporosso 2 ай бұрын

Affascinante. Io avrei suonato alla porta di quella famiglia Lucibello che hai trovato. Magari sono discendenti della tua bisnonna e avete radici comuni.

@TravelDialogues 2 ай бұрын

Grazie! Abbiamo suonato in effetti. La signora con cui abbiamo parlato era molto simpatica, ma non abbiamo trovato radici familiari comuni.

@wayneguy6043 2 ай бұрын

Ur cute

@GDG-qq2oy 2 ай бұрын

You can only say these things today because Americanism has destroyed you and now you remember where your ancestors started from, but once upon a time no beautiful place could replace the hunger of the people!

@christoscapelos8169 2 ай бұрын

In the time your grandparents leave the italy ...was very poor no food terrible condition of living realy a bad place to live Thats why they leave that small city'

@joepusic4238 2 ай бұрын

Dobra picka000

@ndr226 2 ай бұрын

Why did people leave? Economic abuse by the northern Italy resulting is crushing poverty and negligence.

@quidest5 2 ай бұрын

None left south Italy before 1861, there should be a reason

@Maloenton-Agency 2 ай бұрын

Kingdom of Naples is an italian Colony....NOT real Italy !

@tonylarussa4046 2 ай бұрын

Your great grandfather left Amalfi probably because the economic situation wasn't that great!

@David-ve8pk 2 ай бұрын

My great grandparents left because of the Mussalini who raped and tortured countless woman and children those who fought against his regime. They ended up in the United States. Went to WW2 and other wars. I would love to visit one of my home countries that my grandmother and grandfather came from, Lithuania. They were born back in the late 1800's early 1900's. It was because of communism and rotten governments who ran countries in the ground.

@TreeOfWisdom2 2 ай бұрын

Please, make some skin peel from aspirin, apply on wrinkles.

@yourking2323 2 ай бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAHA freak show from some horror movie 🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆

@user-gm8ng9qi7l 2 ай бұрын

I paesaggi mica li mangi...ma la studiano la storia sti americani?Vivono in un altro mondo

@marchettiangelomarchetti2664 2 ай бұрын

Are you serious? Come backup in usa.

@robertsabharwal9787 2 ай бұрын

Your grandfather left because he was dirt poor ...

@nicolettastrada5976 2 ай бұрын

What an insight!

@gianlucaparedi2834 2 ай бұрын

As a tourist, not as a citizen.

@user-gh6ic2kf6m 2 ай бұрын

Sei bellissima ❤

@alessandroalessandro4656 2 ай бұрын

Brava Good Job

@benhaltro1758 2 ай бұрын

appearence for usa people that want still appear instead to be

@campanianrepublic82 2 ай бұрын

Amalfi is a Campanian city, non italian....We are Bourbons !

@jasper_rose_8083 2 ай бұрын

You don't want to live in Italy, trust me. You all, be glad that your ancestors emigrated to the US from Italy.

@angelomezzini7849 2 ай бұрын

Da italiano non vorrei vivere negli u.s.a. cosa sà lei dell'Italia di oggi per sputare sentenze?

@Miggy19779 22 күн бұрын

You don't want to live in the USA. Daily shootings and murder, rampant homelessness, obesity, inequality, bad food, low life expectancy, bad healthcare. Truly the shit hole of the western world! God bless the United Shits of America, greatest hellhole God ever created!!