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The Comunes of Italy Website and Database is not hosted free of charge. We must pay for all our webspace and mailing list. We do accept contributions/donations to help defray the cost of keeping this website up-to-date and would appreciate a small token of your appreciation for the use of information that we have collected and posted here for your personal use. We do accept payments thru PayPal (click on the button below). If you would like to send a personal check or money order, send to address listed below.

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Comuni di Italia.Org
P.O. Box 309
Livingston, IL 62058-0309

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Another way to help support the website is to order the COMUNES OF ITALY COOKBOOK.

The cookbook contains over 360 recipes that were submitted by the members of our mailing list and over 95% are Italian/Sicilian recipes. There are also some interesting articles about various holiday customs and italian proverbs.

The cover artwork and all of the artwork in the cookbook were drawn exclusively for the cookbook by Maria White of Maria’s Art.

To order the cookbook, you can use Paypal or send a check or money order. The cost per cookbook is $25.00 which includes shipping.

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Laura@comunesofitaly.org

To send payment by check or money order, send the payment to:
Comuni di Italia.Org
P.O. Box 309
Livingston, IL 62058-0309

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Dear Friends, With the arrival of the Christmas festivity, it is my pleasure to extend to you the most fervent greetings of a Merry Christmas and of a Happy New Year.

It is, at this particular time of the year, that we all feel the need to come together, to rediscover the value of our traditions, to the flavors or essences of life that are disappearing. A sense of strong attachment to the land in which one has been born, or where one’s parents have been born, the family and the home, in this particular moment of the year makes one more alive and present.

This letter wants to be a tangible sign, an encouragement, to draw closer, to express a clear sign of solidarity to those who find themselves far from their homeland. I beg forgiveness of those citizens whose address we lack, will not be able to receive this, my, message.

I ask the collaboration of those who will receive this, to become my spokespersons and bring our best wishes, personally and in the name of the community’s administration, without exception, to all our fellow citizens who reside outside their native country.
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Due to a large italian community being located in Ticino, Switzerland and several of our members researching this area, a database just for Ticino has been created and can be accessed in this section.
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Interested in Italian Genealogy or Italian cooking, news, travel advice or just about “anything Italian”?

Then you may be interested in joining the Comunes of Italy, a private opt-in mailing list that deals with Italian Genealogy and “All things Italian”. We have some very knowledgable people that can answer almost any question concerning Genealogical research on your Italian ancestors. (more…)