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I would like to go back on the Italy side. My great grandfather is Olindo d'Alessandro he was born in Montevideo Uruguay in 1892 but moved to Italy I'm not sure when. His father is Gaetano d'alessandro and Olindo's mother is Antonia (Antoinette) Ferra. I know Olindo has an uncle named Achille (which would be Gaetano's brother). If you know how I can get more info that would be great. I have documentation on my great-grandfather Olindo but I dont know Gaetano and his wife's info such as birth/death date, where they were born, etc...
The dialects of modern Italian all have their roots in the spoken form of Latin (Vulgar Latin), in use throughout the Roman Empire. Vulgar Latin had, no doubt, its own local peculiarities before the fall of the Empire. The political instability that followed Roman rule kept Italy from re-uniting as ...
