Ciao a Tutti,

Another quick one today!

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1)

I did not get the notarized letter in the mail from San Francesco this week, so I called back and the super kind parish secretary there, and she said she'll get to work on another copy! She said the notary might not be able to come back for a couple of weeks, but she will have a printed copy of the letter ready to go for when she is there. (It was good to talk with her again because I was able to clarify a few things, like our address and that the letter needed a little more information from the parish.)

We should, hopefully, get the notarized letter from the parish in about 2-3 weeks, depending on when the notary comes.

I am also confident that the first letter will come today or tomorrow, since I just made this call That's how things go, right?

I plan to make a donation to the parish to cover the cost of the notary, postage, and the parish secretary's time dealing with this. I figure we would have been okay paying for this record, so it seems reasonable to donate out of gratitude and to make sure we cover at least the costs of the record. If there are no objections, I plan to snd $50 to the parish and share it between all of us. Please let me know if you don't want to do it that way.

2) 

After talking with my immediate family last night, I realized that some folks might not know why we need this record or what our next steps are, so I thought I would give a little refresher/summary.

Once we get this letter from San Francesco, I believe that we will be ready to file the case in New York State. Once that's filed, it will take 3-5 months, and we will (hopefully) get a corrected birth certificate for Grandma Florence or the One and the Same Order. (They are equally good, but it's hard to predict which we will get. I say "hopefully" only because nothing is ever 100% guaranteed.)

Once we have that from New York, we will send a scan to our Italian lawyer, and he will confirm that it is sufficient for our case in Italy. Assuming it is, then we will start collecting apostilles and translations of our documents.

After we have all of the apostilles and translations, you will send or give everything to me once everything is apostilled, I will pack it up, and then I'll send it to Italy. There, our lawyer will go over all of the physical documents, confirm everything is in order, and then file our case.

And then finally, about 1-2 years after that, we will be recognized. I'm hoping, at this point, for that to happen around early- to mid-2023.

Phew! Hope that that all made good sense.

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I hope you are having a great Friday. I hope to write in about two weeks with this notarized letter in hand!

A Pronto,

Noah