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by Maurizio
20 Feb 2020, 00:28
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Charlie Chiado
Replies: 4
Views: 1547

Re: Charlie Chiado

Hi, living not far from there, I can assure that "Chiadò" (with an accent on the last letter and very often being part of a doubele surname, i.e. "Chiadò Caponet", "Chiadò Cutin", Chiadò Piat", etc.) is definitely a typical surname for Corio Canavese and the immedi...
by Maurizio
27 Feb 2017, 16:37
Forum: Locations in Italy
Topic: Village of Rampone
Replies: 1
Views: 1891

Re: Village of Rampone

Hi. "Bricco Rampone" is the name of a small hamlet belonging to the Comune (town) of Frinco, province of Asti, in Piemonte (northern Italy, as you correctly stated). In my opinion, it has nothing to do with the town of Strangolagalli, province of Frosinone, in Lazio (central Italy, at leas...
by Maurizio
16 Jul 2014, 23:14
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Need to get ahold of Maurizio on this board
Replies: 2
Views: 1135

Re: Need to get ahold of Maurizio on this board

Here I am (my acct was evidently set up in a way I could see messages).
Private email sent to Corey.
by Maurizio
14 Aug 2013, 01:32
Forum: Locations in Italy
Topic: San Benigno Canavese (Torino)
Replies: 8
Views: 4781

Re: San Benigno Canavese (Torino)

PM sent
by Maurizio
29 Jul 2013, 23:48
Forum: Locations in Italy
Topic: San Benigno Canavese (Torino)
Replies: 8
Views: 4781

Re: San Benigno Canavese (Torino)

Wonderful, I'm happy for you. Let me know if there's something I can try and do in order to help your research.
Ciao,
Maurizio
by Maurizio
04 Jun 2013, 21:22
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: Please translate words written on back of picture
Replies: 5
Views: 2260

Re: Please translate words written on back of picture

I obviously don't know who sent the picture, but it should be the portrait of Luigi and Vincenza Baglio. What I was saying is that it's impossible to tell which kind of relationship Luigi and Vincenza had with the recipient: they could have been his/her grandchildren or his/her nephew and niece. Cia...
by Maurizio
04 Jun 2013, 20:47
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: Please translate words written on back of picture
Replies: 5
Views: 2260

Re: Please translate words written on back of picture

"Ricordo dei suoi nipoti Baglio Luiggi e Baglio Vincenza"
"Souvenir of your *** Baglio Luigi and Baglio Vincenza"

*** = The Italian word "nipoti" may indicate both "grandchildren" and "Nephew/niece"

Ciao,
Maurizio
by Maurizio
30 May 2013, 18:42
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Carlo Costa-Zana
Replies: 5
Views: 2705

Re: Carlo Costa-Zana

Hello, Mjc. I'm too younger for the 1937's trip, but old enough for the one your sister did a few years ago. Unfortunately, it's not her I had the chance to meet but another Zana family: they were/are about the same generation of your mother (from what I can understand) and they still lived in Leech...
by Maurizio
29 May 2013, 21:24
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Carlo Costa-Zana
Replies: 5
Views: 2705

Re: Carlo Costa-Zana

Hello MJC, I live in the area and all the names and places you mentioned are familiar to me. Correct Italian spellings are "Costa Zana" and "Pastor Ris" as surnames; "Giacomo" and "Maddalena" (and "Carlo", obviously) as first names; San Giorgio (Cana...
by Maurizio
08 May 2013, 23:15
Forum: Locations in Italy
Topic: San Benigno Canavese (Torino)
Replies: 8
Views: 4781

Re: San Benigno Canavese (Torino)

Hi. I live in the area and I can assure you there's only one cemetery in San Benigno Canavese: CIMITERO COMUNALE Via Chivasso 10080 San Benigno Canavese (TO) Also, the church your ggparents could have used was certainly the catholic one, the only existing there at that time. Here's the address: PARR...
by Maurizio
29 Apr 2013, 13:44
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Can't read the name..
Replies: 6
Views: 2596

Re: Can't read the name..

Actually, I have to correct my first impression and to agree with Erudita.
by Maurizio
29 Apr 2013, 11:31
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Can't read the name..
Replies: 6
Views: 2596

Re: Can't read the name..

Hi.
"ROSSANO", for what I can decypher.
Ciao,
Maurizio
by Maurizio
26 Apr 2013, 14:32
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Surname BELLINO
Replies: 17
Views: 7974

Re: Surname BELLINO

Locana is a mountain village, made of almost 100 hamlets (group of houses), often located a few miles far from the center of the village: today, most of those hamlets are deserted, but in the past there was a church or at least a chapel in many of them (see here: http://www.comune.locana.to.it/?pubb...
by Maurizio
24 Apr 2013, 21:09
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: Family terms in Italian
Replies: 2
Views: 2845

Re: Family terms in Italian

Unfortunately, Italian language hasn't a proper way to correctly indicate this kind of relationship. We may indifferently say "cousin" or "2nd cousin", which both are wrong definition: the English one is much better and more precise.
Ciao,
Maurizio
by Maurizio
24 Apr 2013, 20:48
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Surname BELLINO
Replies: 17
Views: 7974

Re: Surname BELLINO

Hi.
Bellino is present also in Canavese area (north-western part of the Province of Turin, i.e N-W of N.W. of Piemonte region). There still are families with this surname in the village of Locana (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locana).
Hope this helps.
Ciao,
Maurizio