Italian Cultural Links
Ships & Naturalization
Italian History, Facts, Towns & Maps
Italian Cultural Links
Italian Genealogy Links
United States Genealogy Links & Resources
Behind the Name - This website with names from all over the world gives you the origin and information about the name. Very interesting!
Italian Internment Camps - This is a PDF file from the Department of Justice concerning the Italian Internment Camps from World War II. It's quite interesting and even provides lists of detainees and lists of fisherman and railroad workers who were only allowed to work in certain areas.
Chiesa Cattolica Italiana (Italian Catholic Church) - This website is all in Italian but with a little patience you can follow the links to a list of diocese and parishes, including phone numbers and addresses. Start at the top picture toolbar.
Italian Diocese - This web site gives a listing of every Diocese in Italy. You can click on the name of the Diocese and go to the official web site of that Diocese, and then find the listing of churches within that diocese.
Italy Catholic Church History and Genealogy - This website has links to all the different diocese in every region of Italy.
Catholic Parishes in Manhattan - This site lists all Catholic parishes in Manhattan and they are sorted by date of establishment, going back to 1785!
Rinnovamento nello Spirito Santo - This website is in Italian and is for a growing church in the Diocese of Palermo.
Jews in Sicily - A history of the Jews in Sicily by Dr. Gaetano Cipolla. It is written in both English and Sicilian, which is fun for learning the language.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - This website has a community calendar of Italian American events for the New York area as well as links for having an Italian holiday (like Thanksgiving Italian Style) and includes ways to teach your children about their Italian heritage with fun games and crafts. It also has a link for information about restrictions to Italians during WW2, Italian Radio Programs, and more. Check it out!
Italian Cultural Institute of New York - Lots of cool information here and includes a list of events in the New York area relating to all things Italian.
Links to Italian Cultural Organizations - This site provides a group of links to different organizations like the Sons of Italy, UNICO and the National Italian-American Foundation.
Grifasi's Sicilian Almanac - This website has wonderful information about cultural information regarding Sicily. For instance, history, proverbs, art and literature, and more. Very interesting information.
Sicilian Culture - With some very interesting facts, you are sure to enjoy this one!
Links to Italian-American web sites of Interest - This page has a list of web sites that contain book reviews, stories of immigration, pages about Italian-American achievements, and more.
