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I am in search of my last name Lamolli. I know it's not an original name. I do have a Census record of 1910 from Puerto Rico of my great, great grandfather which the name was spelled Lamoya. There is a place listed in the document but I can't seem to make it out. The handwritting is not that great. But, perhaps someone can make it out for me as I am not familiar with Italy and it's names and towns. Would appreciate any help. If anyone can me please let me know. As I do not know how to insert the document here. And hello to Peter Timber
why don't you tak the dopcument to your nearest high school where a foregin l;anguage is taught or a college or university where they teach romance languages, preferably italian and ask them to read the name of the town. Peter
I did some checking and on November 6,2001 you stated tht you had an ellis Island manifest with a name of the town you couldn't read. is this the same document you are talking about now?? If so, what is the date of arrival of the ship in the manifest and at what port did it arrive at and what was the name of the passsenger ? Peter
I worked for approx. 15 years reading Spanish Name Extraction entries. First of all, make yourself a "cheat sheet" of "odd" letters (especially S, Y, I, G, J) comparing what you know to what you don't know - its sort of filling in the blanks. We even used tissue paper at times to hold what we HAD figured out over what we couldn't read (seems like S and I were the worst!) - Good Luck! Gayle
An Italian novel for kids called "La Freccia Azzurra" (The Blue Arrow) says that all the children in the world wait for Christmas Eve to get presents from Santa Clause, but Italian kids are the luckiest in the world because they get presents again on the 6th of January by the Befana. Who is the Befa...
