http://www.natitrentino.mondotrentino.net/
Try this site .you will find your Dallona ancestors birth details there.If you write to the parish,S.Valentino, they wil send you the birth notice of your ancestors.

Zanna

Good idea Peter, but as yet I have not located his birth comune.Hoping with the new info I have about his mother it is not too far off before I know the comune.

Zanna

I am sure my g.grandfather returned to Italy to live permanently in about 1913 from New Zealand where he was a naturalised citizen. The question is, would he have regained Italian Citizenship on his return to live there. If so does this mean that his descendants born after his departure have Italian ...

Thankyou very much Livio

Zanna

Can someone please translate my post- Letter to Diocesano
Thanks for your help .

Zanna

Peter,that is really funny! It is just going to have to remain a mystery and I am never going to bring up this twig-twirg thing again!!!

Zanna

Riccardo,

Yes ,please mention the marriage certificate too.Do not know the dates though, would have to be a guess, but if my bisnonno was the first born due to his name being the same as his fathers in november 1848,the marriage would have been before this .
Bye Zanna

Hi Ricardo,
Thought I would mention that I found that De Cristina live in Val di Fassa now and in the past, so wrote there also, but no reply.
Just looking back on my letters and I did not send one to Claudio as I thought I had. Have been waiting on a translation on another site.
I would like to ...

Hi Riccardo,
I have written to Claudio Andreolli and all the comune di Cortina in Trento and Bolzano but have recieved no replies except in one case acknowledgement of my email sometime ago.
I wish to write to Trento also to ask for records of Giovanni's mother Santa Luchi maybe death record and ...

Very helpful and a very interesting and useful link,Suanj.

Thanks Zanna

Peter
Interesting, but for the life of me I cannot see Twig in the lead name on that site when I bring it up in German or have I got the wrong end of the stick. Can you tell me exactly where it is please?
Zanna

Hi Peter,
Your welcome. I never knew my nickname is a surname
Zanna is the name my grandmother called me, short for Rosanna.
Thanks for the link to that website.

The place Altwirg is on the map I put the link up for.
It could be a german word for the topograhpy of the area??
When I saw the word on the michrofiche years ago I thought it was a transcribers error, still likely. But when I saw something so similar on the map well I started to think well maybe ...

That's okay, I should have been more specific.

Zanna

Isn't Bolzano in Trentino Alto Adige? Northern Italy?
It was in the past part of Austro Hungarian Empire but now is Italy.