The process to gain Italian citizenship is either through blood or through marriage. Anyone interested in this process falls in one of those two categories. Are you Italian by blood or by marriage?
In my case, I am Italian by blood so I will be seeking my citizenship recognition via Jure Sanguinis.
I would have a much easier time than most people searching for their ancestors because some years earlier, my dad had started writing a document – lovingly called “A Short and Unfinished Story of an Italian-American Family” and he had a significant amount of genealogical research already done.
There is a longer story here of how my great grandparents travelled separately in 1903 and 1905 to the US from Naples, Italy. My grandfather first then after saving his earnings for a few years, he sent for his wife and two children. Neither of the adults could speak or read English, and in truth neither of them could read or write Italian. But, in search of a new life, they made the trip – passing through Ellis Island in NY and ended up in Newport, Rhode Island where the whole story began.