September 2022 I contacted Southern Italy Travel in the spring of 2020, amid the pandemic. No one at the firm, nor myself living in the United States, realized the extent of the pandemic at that time. But Mirella Ammirati took on my request to round out my family tree for which I had a few names, […]
August 2022 I was so happy with the choice I made to work with Southern Italy Travel to help research my family history in Molise. Stefano and Mirella were very patient while I sourced as much information from old photos and scraps of paper with addresses from time past of relatives we were not sure […]
June 2022 Thank you Southern Italy Travel! Mirella and Stefano, you’ve taken us on an incredible ancestral journey over the last several years. The destination is great, too! We started with researching our ancestors in multiple branches of my family, just to build a family tree. Your work was top-notch – accurate and thorough. The […]
June 2022 For a long time, I wanted to know the city from where my great grandfather had left for his new world. Luckily, life took me to his town. I am enormously grateful to life and to all those who collaborated to reconnect with my origins. Delighted to know its streets through Stefano, who […]
June 2022 It’s been a dream of mine to visit our ancestral hometown of Gessopalena in Abruzzo. With the help of Mirella, from Southern Italy Travel, my family and I had an incredible day we will always treasure. From additional research to help fill in our family tree to meeting new cousins and touring the […]
May 2022 Thank you Southern Italy Travel for the amazing day you put together for my family! The research you did to identify our ancestors and their stories combined with the historical context you provided during our tour of the beautiful town of Lettopalena was thorough and inspiring -to say the least. Including a delicious lunch at […]
November 2017 Thanks to Southern Italian Travel I was able to contact my second cousins in Italy. We didn’t know if any of them remained in the town where my grandfather grew up but I wanted to know if someone was there. It didn’t take Stefano very long to find them and he arranged a […]
July 2017 I hired these nice people to do some research ahead of a trip I was organizing for me and some of my siblings to our roots in Abruzzo. I am very particular about what I accept as fact in my search for my ancestry, and because of certain questions they had for me […]
November, 2016 When we arrived Rome after leaving the small town of San Pietro Avellana, the contrast of the multitudes vs the slow pace of the small towns and villages in Abruzzi/Isernia was breathtaking. As to our guide Antonio, Mirella’s associate, just one word. Outstanding! He is knowledgeable about the area, energetic and was very generous […]
July, 2016 Visiting Italy to see where our grandparents lived before immigrating to the US was high on our “Bucket List” of places to go and things to do. When we ran into a brick wall trying to research our Italian family, we were fortunate to find two professional genealogists in Italy to help […]
