From the Book - First edition.
Part One: Linking your family tree to Italy. Chapter 1: Discovering your Italian heritage
Chapter 2: Jump-starting your Italian research
Chapter 3: Identifying your immigrant ancestors
Part Two: Getting To Know the Old Country. Chapter 4: Understanding Italian history
Chapter 5: Understanding Italian geography
Chapter 6: Deciphering Italian: Language, names, and surnames
Part Three: Tracing Your Family In Italy. Chapter 7: Civil records
Chapter 8: Church records
Chapter 9: Census and taxation records
Chapter 10: Notarial records
Chapter 11: Military records
Chapter 12: Other records. Part Four: Advanced Sources and Strategies. Chapter 13: Putting it all together
Chapter 14: What to do when you get stuck
Appendix A: Publications and websites
Appendix B: Italian provinces and archives
Appendix C: Sample letters to request records
Appendix D: Italian genealogical word lists
