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  • CIAO March 2026 Meeting

    Join us in person on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 10:30 am at the Parma-Powers Branch of the Cuyahoga County Library located at 6996 Powers Boulevard, Parma, Ohio 44129 for our next meeting. Please RSVP to clevelandciao@gmail.com by March 15 if you will be attending the meeting. Read more

  • 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: Read more

  • CIAO January 2026 Meeting

    Join us on Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 10:30 am via Zoom for our next meeting with Noel Portier, Executive Director of the Ohio Genealogical Society (OGS), presenting an overview of genealogical resources available through the OGS and sharing some of the benefits OGS can provide to CIAO, now that we are about to become… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • 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… Read more