Interesting story Christy, looks like many of us are trying to recapture some part of our youth through fig tree memories tied with family....
Why not post as much info as you can remember from your family fig tree such, single crop or dual, skin color, flesh color, time of year that fruits ripened, size of fruit, location of origin in Italy(some Italian fig sites may also have some details) etc...
Some one in this forum may just surprise you...
Why do I like figs?
I've always had a sweet tooth and the only sweets available were fruits.
I grew up eating as many figs as I could stuff... whether they were white,yellow,green or dark. A sweet ripe fig was as close to a trip to a "candy store" as I had in Sicily in the early sixties.... Most of my family had fig trees and yet my friends and Myself went rampaging through the countryside picking figs from any tree that had ripe ones... If you envision the scene from Godfather movie where Michael and Apollonia are walking on a country dirt road in front of a horde of chaparones, that is the countryside that I explored on a regular basis.... lots of memories....