sorry...any news?

Biff83 wrote:Well done article from American Heritage magazine on the 1924 rugby game.
http://www.americanheritage.com/article ... 5_66.shtml

Biff

Great article!

Well, I've started this research time ago for the OlyMADMen team...
Forlì is wrong, and his birthname was Cesare.

Thank you very much for calling reinforcements!

I know they easily mispelled Italian names/surnames... I have found Manelli, Mannellin, Mamelli, Cerere...and what about Deri or Seri Mannelli....? :) Strange enough, Dorigo, probably the most difficult to understand, is always written correctly ...

I suppose you also checked with "Forni di Sotto". In the years boundaries could have been changed ....
By the way, "matrimonio per procura" is "marriage by proxy".

Ada

Grazie :-)

I'm going to check with Forni di Sotto soon. However, the more I search (4 months) the more I think that there's ...

No, I live in Italy and I'm not able to do such tasks.

However, thank you for the support and the help you gave me!

Yeah, those are the documents I have.
I thought I misunderstood the birthplace, but he wrote indeed "Forni".

Looking thru databases now.....

did find this article of interest, doesn't help your search, but nice to have:

Newspaper Archives

Source: The Catalina Islander
Avalon, California
Year 1931
March 1, Page 6

Still looking......
wldspirit

:D thank you!

ups, I still haven't written his ...

"Forni" is in the province of Udine (Friuli). Didn't you say his mother could have been "Friulian"?

Ada

Yes, his father Siro and his Friulian mother Luigia Dorigo probably married "per procura" (don't know in English...) at Forni di Sopra (UD), but they said there's no Cesare Mannelli in their ...

I think I've checked every online source...

I've found:
- his passport request, where he wrote his birthdate and mistyped/false birthplace (7/7/1897 Forni, Italy) and says his father emigrated sailing on the (something like) "Giuseppe Verdi" (not active in those years) from Genova on or about July ...

Hi all! I'm new here!

I'm Italian and I'm trying to find out birthplace (city of birth) of Caesar (Cesare) Mannelli, probably born in Italy on 7th July 1897 and probably death in Mayberry Slough, Antioch, Contra Costa, California.
I've found a passport request where he wrote "Forni", but seems to ...