Updates:
3/23/09 - Finally, updates! I've updated the home page. I've also added text to Immigration and Looking for Information. Lots of updates to Chieuti Pages.
1/1/09 - Happy New Year's! My New Year's Resolution?? More updates!!!
11/5/2008 - Yes we can ... and YES, WE DID!!!
Welcome to Serracapriola Pages
Most of the Italians who immigrated to the United States and elsewhere did not come from the Italy of the Medicis . . . A Room With a View . . . Under the Tuscan Sun . . . or even Rick Steves. Rather, they left from one of thousands of modest villages across Southern Italy, like the one in these photographs - Serracapriola, in the province of Foggia, region of Apuglia.
Why Serracapriola Pages?
When I began researching the ancestry of my maternal grandparents, I only knew that they were born in Chieuti. It didn't take me long to discover that while my mother's parents were born in Chieuti, most of their ancestors were born elsewhere, in little towns throughout the region. I followed my mother's maternal grandparents to Poggio Imperiale, Apricena and San Marco in Lamis, while my mother's paternal grandparents could be traced to Ripalimosano and Serracapriola - a town less than 3 miles away from Chieuti. Although my research began in Chieuti (www.chieuti-pages.com), it soon extended to Serracapriola. As I transcribed the Chieuti civil records, I discovered that there was a lot of movement between the two towns. Brides from Serracapriola married grooms from Chieuti and vice versa. I have nearly finished transcribing all of the marriage records for Chieuti (1809-1929) and it's nearly impossible to find a Chieuti family who doesn't have an ancestor from another town. And most often, that other town is Serracapriola. So for now, I have a website dedicated to all things Chieuti and Serracapriola. Someday, I may get to those other towns ...Janet House
Serracapriola - 1929
Postcard provided by Primo DelCalzo