Thank you for your time researching my family for me and also for the directions on how to get the public records. I'll be contacting Dauphin and/or Fayette counties next week to get copies of the records.
I am trying to find out my grandmother's maiden name, her first name was Michelina. She was born in Italy in 1888. She married my grandfather, Eugenio Cecchini, who immigrated to the US, via Ellis Island in 1902. He was from Montegallo. I believe he was single when he came to the US from Italy. They ...
Contrary to popular belief, not all Italian given names have Christian or classical roots. Many names encountered in older records are almost whimsical, and some cannot be translated into Latin or any other language. In order to avoid possible mistranscription of a given name with which the research...