LA GRANDE FAMILLE
DE PROCIDA & ISCHIA

Association loi 1901 fondée en 2003

Happy New Year 2008

Dear friends and cousins,

First of all, my best wishes of good health and success, to you and to all your loved ones, for a happy New Year 2008.

I hope that this New Year will be as constructive as the past ones, that we will achieve our goals and that our projects of preservation of Ischia’s archives will continue to progress. I also hope we will be able to meet or meet again through the events and meetings we will organise or participate in.

New ideas will probably emerge in the next few months and I count on you to take part and help where and when needed. By doing so, our Association will be able to progress allowing each and every one of us to find what we are looking for through exchanges of help, personal contributions or volunteering.

• Members' meal (2^nd edition)

• End of the digitalization of the town of Procida

• Version v3.1 of our search engine (integration of cousin relationships)

Summer

• The Forum of the Italian Associations in Paris

• Digitalization continues in Ischia

• Collection of files at the Annunziata in Naples

Renewing your membership

This message is for members who have not yet renewed their membership.

Our website manages automatically the end of memberships and will deny access to the database and to the search engine after a grace period of 7 days.

Can I remind you that you will find the 2008 membership brochure on our website. Our tariffs have not changed since 2003!

To date, 25 new memberships have been recorded and 96 members have already renewed their support to the Association in 2008!

Please also note that the members volunteering in 2007 will automatically be given Benefactor status in 2008 and will receive a bonus in the shape of free records in proportion to their contribution during 2007!

Shopping

On our website you will find a large selection of books about Procida and Ischia, their history and culture, our ancestors’ emigration, genealogy, linguistics and even cuisine.

• These are on offer from our sponsor, the Libreria Graziella in Procida.

• Also look at the Imagaenaria’s catalogue, the bookshop in Ischia Ponte.

• Very rare, a copy of the famous book "Mers-el-Kebir – Le grand Port" by Robert Tinthoin is available through us.

A few copies of ProcidaOggi are still available, dated from October 2005 to November 2007:

• One issue = 3 Euros *

• Year 2006 (5 issues) = 14 Euros *

• Yearly subscription = 18 Euros *

* Postage is included in the total price.

Also on sale are some very beautiful antique engravings offered by our sponsor Mario RAFFONE. A limited stock is available at the Association.

New indexes have been added to our database this month.

Thank you to the volunteers!