Cleveland CIAO

Category: Event

  • Affiliate Chapter of OGS

    As of 25 March 2026 Cleveland Italian Ancestry Organization (CIAO) is now an OGS Affiliate Chapter! To find our more about OGS and its member benefits, check out their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/OGSpage) and their website (https://www.ogs.org/).

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  • CIAO March 2026 Meeting

    At our March 21, 2026 meeting held at the Parma-Powers Branch of the Cuyahoga County Library, Tom Kaschalk from the Cuyahoga County Archives presented “Your Cleveland Ancestors Are Waiting: Researching at the Cuyahoga County Archives”. Mr. Kaschalk, who is a long-time archives volunteer, provided an excellent overview of the vast array of records and documents…

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  • Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses

    On Saturday, January 10, 2026 we met at the Cleveland Museum of Art for the Renaissance to Runway featuring four exhibitions focusing on Italian artistic culture. The exhibits included:

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  • CIAO January 2026 Meeting

    At the Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 10:30 am meeting with Noel Portier, Executive Director of the Ohio Genealogical Society (OGS), he presented an overview of genealogical resources available through the OGS and shared some of the benefits OGS can provide to CIAO (now that we are about to become an affiliate member). Check out…

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  • Family Oral History

    We were please to host Mary Contini Gordon at our last CIAO meeting. Mary had an interesting presentation about Oral History Across the World. Mary’s book can be purchased at a discount until March 1, 2025 Family Oral History Across the World presents a process for memorializing family histories, bringing together established oral history standards, exploratory…

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  • CIAO Meeting: “Cousin Baiting and Cousin Stalking”

    At our 21 September 2024 meeting Christine Cohen joined us via Zoom to present“ Cousin Baiting and Cousin Stalking”. Cohen shared her insights on how to reach out to living cousins and explore online trees, lineage societies, cemetery indexes, obituaries in newspapers, living people-finder websites and social media to help break down those brick walls in…

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  • SEPTEMBER 30, FUNDRAISER – VIRTURAL COOKING CLASS

    Cleveland Italian Ancestry Organization (CIAO) VIRTUAL COOKING CLASS FUNDRAISER was held on Monday, September 30th. CIAO member Marla Monzo-Holmes, also known as “The Chef in Red”, made a delicious olive oil cake with mascarpone whipped cream and berry coulis. Monzo-Holmes has been teaching cooking classes since 1995 and is frequently featured on Fox 8’s “New Day…

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  • Italian Parish Records

      ITALIAN PARISH RECORDSSuzie Greco provided an update on her grassroots non-profit organization’s efforts to digitize and preserve records found in Italian churches across the country. If you have a recipe, family story, or other news item that you wish to be considered for the CIAO Genealogy Giornale, please submit it to biermanmg@gmail.com  

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