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We have some family photographs with the term "Cara patina..." on them as a greeting. (I'm not sure if the first letter is a p, but it's my best guess).
Can anyone tell us what it means?
Searching for: Mastronardi (Pietrelcina), D'Auria (Ariano), Ciaccio (Santa Margherita di Belice) and Prizzi (Menfi).
OK! They are at my mom's house so I'll need to get them next weekend. If I scan them into the computer, how best to post them here so you can see them?
Thank you so much! We tried using babelfish, but I think we are not identifying some of the letters of the writer correctly.
Searching for: Mastronardi (Pietrelcina), D'Auria (Ariano), Ciaccio (Santa Margherita di Belice) and Prizzi (Menfi).
Scarlett227 wrote:OK! They are at my mom's house so I'll need to get them next weekend. If I scan them into the computer, how best to post them here so you can see them?
Thank you so much! We tried using babelfish, but I think we are not identifying some of the letters of the writer correctly.
You may upload them to imageshck (or similar) and provide the link in the post.
This link http://e-lore.com/wiki/Using_Imageshack gives you instructions on imageshack
Patina could be mispelled. I have a hunch it could be, like Emmy writes, the sicilian dialect word for Godmother but it is spelled PARRINA. And it would be the child writing to the godmother not the opposite.
It's very likely it could be godmother. The niece lived in Pietrelcina/Naples, Italy (but not Sicily) and was writing to her aunt, possible godmother, who lived in the U.S. One of the words we did translate looked like finace, so I'm guessing the niece sent photos of her fiance and later husband?
I'll get those photos Sunday and scan in the backs for you all to take a look. I'm just learning about the handwriting from the Nelson book, though these photos are circa 1940s-1960s and it's a little more modern than what would be on the vital records.
Searching for: Mastronardi (Pietrelcina), D'Auria (Ariano), Ciaccio (Santa Margherita di Belice) and Prizzi (Menfi).
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