AttoGuides
Short, plain-English help for the research loop Atto supports: build a find plan on your desktop kit, open links in your own browser, capture what you find, and approve records one at a time. Atto never logs into archives for you and never files paperwork.
Find guides
- Italian words — civil-record and form vocabulary in plain English first.
- Italy records (Antenati) — search-registry deep links, national vs regional archives, and why a scan is not a copia integrale.
- US hometown ladder — Ellis Island, naturalization, draft cards, SS-5, USCIS, and Italian Genealogical Group NYC.
- FamilySearch & Ancestry — using commercial trees after Atto opens a search; capture to Documents; Approve as the human gate.
- Read old handwriting — photo or scan a hard-to-read act, pick who it is about, check the draft on Approve.
- Set up your family site — publish a redacted tree behind a login: Cloudflare account, site name, invite emails, then publish from Share.
- Copia integrale vs Antenati scan — why a free research scan is not the filing-grade copy a comune issues.
- Italian document types — atto di nascita, estratto, certificato, and copia integrale in plain English.
- Surname variants — why a cognome is spelled differently across acts, and how to document what you see.
New here?
Start with Getting started for install, license import, your first find plan, and your first approval. Mac and Windows are both desktop kits; Linux builds are on the download page. After install, Home → Advanced → Check for updates when a newer kit ships.