Collaborators working with Italian records?

Ciao, Andrea. If I may add...
Any chance you could help on the http://www.geni.com/projects/Portale-italiano/8261?
Personally, I don't write Italian, and I think that page should really be in Italian. I tried to add a few sources for records - just because I happened to stumble along them. Perhaps we could try and expand that list for other cities/regions in Italy.
Perhaps you could open a discussion about it (in Italian) on the Italian site. I refrained from doing so in the past, because I think writing in English will just frighten people away from the discussion.

Hi Andrea. I'm Brazilian with 1/4 Italian blood. I still looking for my connection in Italy. I can't write Italian either (nor English very well...), but I can understand a little.

George J. Homs, The italian port has been a desolate sight since I first discovered. I never added anything there myself since I'm more searching for help, rather than offering it, but I might post something there. I was hoping to find a Curator for Italy, but apparently (after looking at the curator lis) there is none.

A few, like you and Lúcia Pilla speak (some) italian, but that is really all… :(

Thanks anyway!

Private User is Italian, isn't he?

I've looked at the Curator list (now I cannot find the link, of course) and I could not find any italian. I'll check with him anyway. Thanks!

yes, I'm Italian.
Regards
Marco

Andrea Mosconi Here he is! :-))

yup!

Either the list is not up to date or I'm blind, which could be… :D

Andrea, in a general way... When I started looking for online public records many months back, when I wanted to kickstart the Italian portaI, I didn't find. Perhaps I didn't look well enough, because I feel more and more, state archives are becoming available through local/regional web sites.
The tough challenge for me is to work my way through genealogical associations. There are many of them in Italy, but I can understand the Italian only when I'm not too tired ;-)
I think it would be worth it to report what we find on the Portale Italiano, because it may help other people as well. And, who knows, they might come up with finds of their own!
As said, perhaps you could re-iterate your starting question on the Portal? In my experience on the French Geni portal, we started to have good discussions simply because we did it in French :-)

George, I've already updated the Italian portal, adding some other resources and an intro, not directly related to my family, but to italy in general calling for collaboration.

We'll see what will happen. I will add a discussion about my family when I've a moment and updated my family project page (almost done for the moment).

Great, Andrea! The page was simply waiting for you ;-)
Having said that, I think it just takes someone to start, and then more will join. Let's hope more people will start and collaborate.
In case people want to discuss older Italian lineages and 'nobility', I have built quite extensive experience with that over the past six months. And, believe me, all Italians living today have a link to what people call 'nobility lines'. If you want me to talk about that on the Italian portal, I'm more than happy to do so :-) But, Marco Soria may have many more thoughts about that than me!

Feel fee to add a discussion about that, I've my share of nobility (bestowed by German and Austrian kings and emperors, no less) in my family, but is not really documented in GENI, another task that I should start, someday…

The only problem (possibly) is that as for the project page, "all discussions should be in italian" ;)

Thanks,
Andrea

I could avoid syntax and just list names: "Caracciolo, di Capua, Altavilla, Gonzaga, Doria, Colonna, Grimaldi, Ventimiglia, Fieschi, Belgioioso, della Rovere, Branciforte, Malatesta, Pallavicino, e altre famiglie... Grazie" :-)

George, I think you should do a bit more than that! :D

there this nice website: http://www.sardimpex.com/ (Genealogie delle famiglie nobili italiane) that probably has already quite a lot of info (still waiting for my registration to go trough).

The link is listed, along with numerous others in this project: http://www.geni.com/projects/Historical-Look-At-Italian-Families/4122