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We'll be happy to see what we can do to help.
Do you have your father's ship manifest, census & miltary registration records in the US?
If not we would be happy to help you find them.
If you're ready to research your records in Italy, we can help with direction on how to do that.
Let us know how you want to proceed.
Thank you!
Valarie
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Are you familiar with the Family History Library?
They have microfilmed the civil records for Morra de Sanctis (Avellino)
from 1810-1910
(click here) film notes
You can order (rent) and view these at your local Family History Center
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
Since your records will be in Italian we can recommend several books that will help you understand and translate your family’s records.
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pcarino wrote:FORTUNATO CARINO. I belive he was born in MORRA IRPINO
In the 1890's he lived in MORRA IRPINO, Avellino, Italy (now called MORRA DE SANCTIS) and was married to Maria Michela DEPAOLO.
His oldest son (my father) Gabriele Felice Carino was born In Morra Irpino in 1893. He immigrated to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1909
Was looking at your father's 1909 manifest, it states he was joining his father in CT.
Do you have your grandfather's ship manifest?
It may confirm his birth location.
for reference, from ancestry. com
(click here) 1909 ship manifest
page 2
26 May 1909, SS Prinzess Irene, Naples to NY
Line 11
Gabriele Carini 16 yrs old, abt 1892
- last residence Avellino, Morra Irpino
- in Morra Irpino, mother Maria
- destination Con. Greenwich
- joining father Fortunato at 554 Putnam? St in Greenwich
- born in Avellino Morra Irpino