I sent a letter to this venerable institution in Italy today: The Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome which is part of the Vatican.I have my fingers crossed but I don't know what to expect.
I'm respectfully requesting information about my great uncle, Reverend Father Paul who graduated from the Pope's diplomatic school in 1922.
I assume they have his records.....or some type of records.....and if they are very very kind....they will share them with me and thus I could possibly learn the name of my great grandparents in Lithuania.
I'm not sure they will be willing.....recently a rather negative edict was sent out via the Pope's formal channels to discourage Catholic organizations from sharing genealogical information. It appears the Catholic Church is not happy with the Mormons, the Church of the Latter Day Saints, for posthumously baptizing past parishioners and gathering church records to complete the task. I may have to prove I'm not a Mormon....I may have to prove my relationship with Father Paul or jump through some other unknown hoop.
Or they simply might ignore me or email a "Sorry" response.
I wonder how they will answer?
