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Looking for your Sicilian ancestors

Visit Sicily searching for your relatives! Temples, sea, sun and ... your roots!

Looking for your Sicilian ancestors

Frank Lucido with the major of Lercara Friddi. We found him relatives and the native house of his parents
Frank Lucido with the major of Lercara Friddi. We found him relatives and the native house of his parents
Gran galà at the town hall
Gran galà at the town hall
Reunion
Reunion
"The uncle I've never known!"
"The uncle I've never known!"
Months and months of research, by the writer’s staff, searching for your ancestors!
Months and months of research, by the writer’s staff, searching for your ancestors!
Atlanta, Georgia, Usa: Giovanni Vallone met Joanna, a Sicilian-American in search of her roots
Atlanta, Georgia, Usa: Giovanni Vallone met Joanna, a Sicilian-American in search of her roots
Atlanta, Georgia, Usa: the tree book showed during the interview made by Giovanni for Italian Public Network
Atlanta, Georgia, Usa: the tree book showed during the interview made by Giovanni for Italian Public Network
We'll also plan together your trip, visiting Sicily
We'll also plan together your trip, visiting Sicily
Provide us with some clue and we'll find them
Provide us with some clue and we'll find them
We bring you to the place where your ancestors worked: like this sulphur mine in Enna
We bring you to the place where your ancestors worked: like this sulphur mine in Enna
Poignant moments: we just found the birth certificate of her grandmama!
Poignant moments: we just found the birth certificate of her grandmama!
We’ll discover the house your ancestors lived in.
We’ll discover the house your ancestors lived in.
Are you searching for your Sicilian ancestors?  WE’LL FIND THEM!  Trace back your Sicilian family roots…
Are you searching for your Sicilian ancestors? WE’LL FIND THEM! Trace back your Sicilian family roots…
The writer Giovanni Vallone: he's incredibly well connected in Sicily and can provide all types of access! You would benefit from his experience to trace back your ancestors in villages whose names you can’t even recall…
The writer Giovanni Vallone: he's incredibly well connected in Sicily and can provide all types of access! You would benefit from his experience to trace back your ancestors in villages whose names you can’t even recall…
Months and months of research, by the Mamma’s staff, searching for your ancestors!
Months and months of research, by the Mamma’s staff, searching for your ancestors!
You'll enjoy both: Sicily and your roots!
You'll enjoy both: Sicily and your roots!
The Ancestors Tour: promo
Kathleen Ciulla
Ciccio the ancestor, short episode
Radio inteview with Kathleen Ciulla
Ciccio the ancestor, full episode

VISIT SICILY AND DISCOVER YOUR ROOTS

The ancestors “voyage of hope” …

Are you searching for your Sicilian ancestors?

WE’LL FIND THEM!

Trace back your Sicilian family roots…

On behalf of “Mamma Sicily” we welcome her children and take care of finding and meeting with there relatives

This is the great mission of the distinguished Sicilian Giovanni Vallone (Mamma’s President), well-known for his journeys around Sicily on his motor scooter as “the motorwriter”.

He has appeared extensively on International, Italian and Sicilian Radio and TV programs, sharing stories of people and places of Sicily.

He’s incredibly well connected in Sicily and can provide all types of access! You would benefit from his experience to trace back your ancestors in villages whose names you can’t even recall…

Somehow, Giovanni manages to piece the information together and bring you back to your ancestral villages.

Months and months of research, by the writer’s staff, searching for your ancestors!

Giovanni usually keeps in contact with the Major and the other Officials of the Municipality from which your ancestor may came from.

Also, Giovanni has collaborated in this “ancestors exploration” a group of historians, writers, scholars, intellectuals … that are in connection with the exclusive Sicilian club that Vallone heads up: MammaSicily-Il Console.

And all together we’ll manage to find anyone!!!

We’ll discover the house your ancestors lived in.

The ancestors “voyage of hope” …

And, of course, we'll plan together this unforgettable Sicilian trip: we'll choose the accommodation, we'll plan the tour to the places worth a visit, we'll suggest you some real Sicilian experiences (Cooking Classes, home food ...)

 

 

 WHO PLANNED THIS EXPERIENCE? "The illustrios cultural staff of Il Console Association: the writer Giovanni Vallone, majors, scholars ..."

 WHY DO THIS EXPERIENCE? "Discover your own roots. Discover who you are and where your ancestors came from to give the next generations a better life."

 WHAT A CHILD THINK ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCE: "Wow! Now I have other relatives"

 HIGHLIGHTS: 1. Visit Sicily and discover your roots: what else?   2. Meeting relatives, discovering native houses, obtaining family certificates, visiting the workplaces where your ancestors have been working   3. The reconstruction of your genealogical tree

 

 

This (like all MammaSicily tours) is a Taylor Made Tour: it is made exclusively for a single reservation and does not provide for the participation of other people. In short: if you book it, it will be just you. Exclusive!

If you want to know more, please fill the form on the right top of the page

 

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