Trace Your Roots Back to Italy
Every Italian comune holds stories of families who crossed oceans. Find yours among 7,900 villages, from Alpine peaks to Mediterranean shores.
Villages waiting to tell
their stories
Years of genealogical
records indexed
Choose Your Regione
Each of Italy's 20 regions has its own character, dialect, and history. Where did your family come from?
Everything You Need to Connect
From finding your ancestral village to claiming Italian citizenship
Find Your Village
Search all 7,900 Italian comuni, including historical name changes, population data, and the State Archive that holds civil records for each town.
Search by Surname
Don't know the town? Search your cognome to see where it originated, which comuni it's concentrated in, and how many people with that name arrived in the US.
Explore Emigration History
Over 2 million Italian passenger records from 1830 to 1912, plus regional emigration statistics from 1876 to 2014. See where your region's emigrants went, and when.
Play Sagoma
A daily game: identify the Italian province from its silhouette. Test your knowledge of Italian geography while you learn the regions your ancestors came from.