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I am taking a trip to Italy Sept. 28,2010. I want to go to Medachino. This is were my father was born in 1908. His name is Dominic Santo Greco, his father's name is Antonio Greco and his mother's name is Rosina Naccarato. Is there anyway I can find any of his family still living there?
We are going to have to begin with just where exactly you are going since I don't see any place named Medachino in Italy today.
Possibly Medicina in the province of Bologna?
Once we resolve this issue, you can try using the Italian telephone directory to locate possible relatives in your ancestral comune. See http://www.paginebianche.it/index_en.html
Carmine
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There are 124 Greco in mendicino...go to www.paginebianche.it and put in Greco on left and Mendicino on right and clikck trova. Frist names runin families so select those with familiar first names as potential relatives to write to. Let us know if you want to write to them in Italian.
PeterTimber wrote:carmine go with the numbers. =Peter=
Yes, but possibly the original poster has additional information he did not tell us. Luckily, the three possible locations are in northeast, central, and southern Italy.
To our poster: The state archives of Cosenza has a website at which you can search vital records for the 1800 - 1900 period. Go to http://88.59.143.158/ascs_web/index.faces and complete the free registration process. Then login to the site and have fun.
Lots of Naccarato's and Greco's listed there, although none specifically for Mendecino.
Carmine
My hobby is finding things. Having found most of my own, I am happy to help others find theirs. PM me!
NYTIMES travel section has 36 hours in Firenze this (hot) weekend...Its so lonely to be in the know and occupy a place where no mozzarellas dare to go. =Peter=
frankgreco56 wrote:Hi, That is my family tree. What I am trying to find out is how would I go about trying to find relatives of Dominic Greco.
Mendicino is small enough that many or all of the persons sharing your surnames currently living there may be your relatives. As I said in an earlier post: Mendicino is the one comune which has significant numbers of both Greco and Naccarato telephone listings. http://www.paginebianche.it/execute.cgi ... btt=1&om=0
Carmine
My hobby is finding things. Having found most of my own, I am happy to help others find theirs. PM me!
..l...and further when you walk down the street in the town you will see all your aunts,uncles and relatives since the genes in your family from that town have been there for thousand or more years and facial features will show this. =Peter=
I've just returned from Italy on the same sort of mission as you're contemplating. What I did was to take my family tree with me, with as much info as I had, and then walk into the civil records office and start asking questions. The clerk disappeared into the basement and returned with a giant Stato della Famiglia ledger book, and he found my grandfather and other family members living in the same house. The town policeman was standing nearby, and he caught up with me later and introduced me to a relative. And after a day or two, I had people approaching me in the street. Also, the parish priest was helpful. So just go, Frank. You'll meet family, and it'll be wonderful.
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I am taking a trip to Italy Sept. 28,2010. I want to go to Medachino. This is were my father was born in 1908. His name is Dominic Santo Greco, his father's name is Antonio Greco and his mother's name is Rosina Naccarato. Is there anyway I can find any of his family still living there?
