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Social Life & Customs

Effective family research requires some understanding of the society in which your ancestor lived. Learning about everyday life, religious practices, customs, and traditions will help you appreciate your ancestor and the time in which he or she lived. This information is particularly helpful if you choose to write a history of your family. Research procedures and genealogical sources are different for each area and time period and are affected by the local customs and traditions.

The FamilySearch Library has a few sources that discuss a variety of subjects related to Italian social life and customs. These records are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog under:

ITALY- SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS

ITALY, [PROVINCE]- SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS

Resources

Topic	Time frame	Resource	Locations Covered
Social life and customs	Unknown	Moroni, Antonio. Analisi metodoligica del rilievo della consanguineità. [S.l. : s.n., 196-?].
Family Life	Unknown	Moss, Leonard W. Family life in Italy : past and present. [Salt Lake City, Utah] : Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, c1980.
Social life and customs	Unknown	Nasse, George Nicholas. The Italo-Albanian villages of Southern Italy. Washington, D.C. : National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1964.	Italo-Albanian villages of Southern Italy
Social history	700-1500	Herlihy, David. The social history of Italy and Western Europe, 700-1500. London, England : Variorum Reprints, 1978.
Society and occupations	1860-1914	Malatesta, Maria. Society and the professions in Italy, 1860–1914. New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, c1995.
Social life and customs	Unknown	Marraro, Howard Rosario. The world and its peoples: Italy. New York, New York : Greystone Press, [1964].
Social life and customs	abt 15th century	Snyder, Jon R. Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe. University of California Press. 2009.
Culture and customs	Unknown	Killinger, Charles L. Culture and Customs of Italy. Greenwood Press: Westport, CT. 2005.
Social life and customs	14th century	Musacchio, J. M. The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy. 1996.
Customs and Etiquette	Unknown	Flower, Raymond and Alessandro Falassi. CultureShock! Italy: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette. Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Private Limited: 2008.
Customs and Manners	1765-1766	Sharp, Samuel. Letters from Italy, describing the customs and manners. The British Library, 1767.
Culture and Customs	20th century	Paoli, Ugo Enrico and R. D. Macnaughton. Rome: its people, life and customs. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1996.	Rome
Social life and customs	1945	Abbott, Charles. Italy. London: Kuperard; New York: Distributed in the United States and Canada by Random House Distribution Services, 2008.
Life and culture	Unknown	Whittaker, Andrew. Italy : be fluent in Italian life and culture. London: Thorogood, 2010.
Manners and customs	Unknown	Blunt, John J. Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily. London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street (London: Printed by Thomas Davidson, Whitefriars) 1995. 1823.	Italy and Sicily
Social life and customs	Unknown	Zollo, M. A. and Derek Aust. Italy. London: Teach Yourself, 2004.
Social life and customs	abt 100BC-43BC	Fowler, W. Warde. Social life at Rome: in the age of Cicero. London: Forgotten Books, ?015.	Rome
Social life and customs	14th century	Mee, Charles L. The horizon book of daily life in Renaissance Italy. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co.: Booktrade distribution by McGraw-Hill, [1975].
Social life and customs	1268-1492	Ragg, Lonsdale. Dante and his Italy. New York, Haskell House Publishers, 1973.
Social life and customs	Unknown	McDaniel, Walton Brooks. Roman private life and its survivals. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., [1963].
Social life and customs	Unknown	Oldfield, Paul. City and community in Norman Italy. Cambridge, UK: New york: Cambridge University Press, 2009.	Urban Italy
Cooking	Unknown	Root, Waverley and Geraldine Schremp and Fred Lyon. The cooking of Italy. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968.
Social life and customs	Unknown	Moore, John. A view of society and manners in Italy: with anecdotes relating to some eminent characters. Paris, J. Smith, 1803.
Daily Life	18th Century	Vaussard, Maurice. Daily life in eighteenth century Italy. New York, Macmillan, 1963.