Birth Record from Porto Empedocle - Guiseppe Mancuso

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Birth Record from Porto Empedocle - Guiseppe Mancuso

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Hello, I found my maternal grandfather's birth record. No one in the family knew what town in Sicily my grandfather came from. I was thrilled to discover the town by way of my great-grandfather's Ellis Island immigration record where the town was misspelled. By suggestions of the different forums, I decided to try a different spellings of the town noted on the manifest and thought it could possibly be Porto Empedocle. I was joyful to find the record on LDS website and I paste the link below for some help in translating. Especially eager to find if the occupation(s) are listed and an address that I might try to find living relatives still there. Thank you for any help.
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first entry left side of page - #168 Guiseppe Mancuso

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Hi Frances,
Which one is your record?

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Sorry Marty, I will edit. It is Guiseppe Mancuso - order no. 168
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1872 July 29th recorded before the civil official of Porto Empedocle Giuesppe Gangi appeared Domencio Mancuso age 29 marinaio (sailor)at 6:00 pm on July 27th at a house on strada Fanti with his legal wife Grazia Albano age 20 declared the birth of a baby boy named Giuesppe Mancuso
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Gaetano Bonadonna age 51
Salvatore Bonadonna age 25

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Thank you Marty. In your experience with these records, would the witnesses be related or friends to the Mancusos or are they connected to the official office.
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They could be anyone.....sometimes relatives most of the time not
I have some records in my family the same witnesses I thought that was there job being a witness LOL

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salveminif wrote:It is Guiseppe Mancuso
In italian the name GUIseppe doesn't exist: the correct form is GIUseppe, that sounds very different: try with this site (choose Italian for the language.) http://www.oddcast.com/demos/tts/emotion.html
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Thank you Lucap. I appreciate the correction. Frances
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