Marty
Thank you so much! Greatly appreciate your help. I realize now that i need to be looking for her maiden name instead - Rosa Alderici and look for her husband's name Luigi Castignoli. I didn't realize they record the woman's maiden name. And I now know that the child's name gets record in the ...

Thanks for responding again. I am so grateful for any help. \I uploaded to Ancestry as a picture in my Castignoli file. Here is the link:

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/1607638/ ... pgpl=pgNum

BarbG

Thank you so much for responding!!!!
I think I it correctly?
I think this is the link ?? http://postimage.org/image/ltca9eyyn/

BarbG

I have a copy of a birth record that mentions my great great grandmother - Rosa Castignola. I would greatly appreciate any help with translation. It appears to only have women's name and no man's names. Not sure why that would be.
Not sure how I upload the copy I have. I tried a few times and it ...

Valarie
I've heard of it but I've been afraid they'd try to talk to me about the Mormon religion so I haven't pursued it. I think since my great grandfather was adopted that I won't find a record. He may have been illegitimate and his surname name probably was not the same as his birth record name ...

Valarie
I apologize for the delay in responding. Thank you so much for the information. I have sent a letter to Bettola but my sense is that his birth name was not Della Giarina but his named when he was adopted so maybe I need to pursue LDS files. Thank you so much. What a wonderful gift to those ...

Valarie
Thank you so much for responding. My mother thinks his birthday was around April 10, 1872 but she's not sure (my mother is 82 and things get cloudy sometimes). She also thinks he may have been adopted so I don't know how to even begin. He and my great grandmother raised my mother but he ...

I'm just starting to try and research birth information on my great grandfather, Pio Della Giarina. I know he was from Bettola, Piacenza and was born around 1872. He came to the US in 1893, according to the Ellis Island records. He married Angelina Castignoli in the US about 1897. (He and my great ...