Over 25 million Italians have emigrated between 1861 and 1960 with a migration boom between 1871 and 1915 when over 13,5 million emigrants left the country for European and overseas destinations.
I have these surnames from Lipari: Famularo, LaMuta, Biviano, Manfre, Natoli, Reitano, Cannistra, Rijtano and others. My relatives mostly came to NY, some Reitanos went to Australia.
You can also send for documents from the relating towns of origins based upon http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/pearlsofws ... tters.html
These towns of origins can be further explored by going to www.nonsolocap.it and then putting in the name of the town(s). and then when the zip code, name and province comes up click on the town name for close up websites and addresses in those towns.
You can further rent out civil records on micorfilm records for each town, usually from 1809 to 1910 from your nearest Mormon family history library (www.familysearch.org) =Have fun!! =Peter=
Tomil42 wrote: ↑15 Nov 2009, 16:29
I have these surnames from Lipari: Famularo, LaMuta, Biviano, Manfre, Natoli, Reitano, Cannistra, Rijtano and others. My relatives mostly came to NY, some Reitanos went to Australia.
I am searching for information for guiseppe biviano who came from salina italy to Australia as a child, born approx 1898, father may be antoni biviano, does this fit with your research into biviano anywhere ?
It's said Italy was a country of Saints, poets and navigators. There's no more trace of the poets and navigators but, fortunately, there are traces of the Saints. All the Italian towns are voted to a Saint and one of these is San Gennaro, well-known for his miracle. Who was San Gennaro? San Gennaro ...