Written by: Italian Roots Editorial Team
Posted on: June 30, 2026
The Great Italian Migration: Why Millions Left Italy
The story of the great Italian migration: why millions left Italy between 1880 and 1920, where they went, and how to find your emigrant ancestor in the records.
Written by: Italian Roots Editorial Team
Posted on: June 30, 2026
Finding Your Italian Immigrant Ancestor in the Records
How to find your Italian immigrant ancestor: passenger manifests, naturalization records, censuses and more—and how these records reveal the ancestral town in Italy.
Written by: Italian Roots Editorial Team
Posted on: June 30, 2026
Ellis Island and Italian Immigrants: Records and Myths
What Ellis Island records reveal about Italian immigrants, how to search passenger manifests, and the truth about the name-change myth.
Written by: Italian Roots Editorial Team
Posted on: June 30, 2026
The Italian Ports of Emigration: Naples, Genoa and Palermo
The great Italian ports of emigration—Naples, Genoa and Palermo—and what the journey from them was like for millions of emigrants during the great migration.
Written by: Italian Roots Editorial Team
Posted on: June 30, 2026
The History of Little Italy: How Italian Immigrants Built Community
How Italian immigrants built the Little Italys: national parishes, mutual-aid societies, newspapers and chain migration that recreated home in a new land.
Written by: Italian Roots Editorial Team
Posted on: June 30, 2026
Italian-American Assimilation: Names, Language and Identity
How Italian immigrants and their descendants assimilated: anglicized names, lost language, and shifting identity—and what it means for your genealogy research.
Written by: Italian Roots Editorial Team
Posted on: June 30, 2026
Italian Return Migration: The Ancestors Who Went Back
Many Italian emigrants returned home. Understanding return migration and the ‘birds of passage’ explains vanishing records and reshapes how you trace your family.
Written by: Italian Roots Editorial Team
Posted on: June 30, 2026
Italian Emigration to South America: Argentina and Brazil
Millions of Italians emigrated to South America. The story of Italian migration to Argentina and Brazil, why it was so large, and how to trace these lines.