From my experience, I have also found frazione info mixed in with the larger comune.

Mariemaye, one of my best friends has the last name Badaracco and he is VERY involved in his Italian ancestry... he even went back to the original village (the name escapes me) and met his relatives!

He was born in NJ, most of his family is in NJ... if you would like I would be happy to put you in ...

Word of caution - don't take the marriage certificate as the final authority on name spelling. On my great grandparents' marriage cert, the husband's name was spelled two different ways, his sister in law's name was butchered, and my GGM's name had the wrong vowel at the end. Great sources of info ...

Wow - thanks so much!!! So impressed that you found the original image!!!

Looking back on it... Michele in 1920 has a wife on the census named Mary... so that makes sense. I cannot confirm her maiden name... looks like Cioffoletti. Cioffoletti makes more sense than my original guess of Ciaffoletti ...

I have a Masters degree in Linguistics. One of the things we learned in grad school was the truth of this saying: "A language is a dialect with an army."

Hi all,

The image below is a section of my great grandfather's ship manifest. It is from the column which lists the name of their nearest friend or relative in their home country.

For this, I am pretty lost. The handwriting is TERRIBLE.

What I know is that there are three sections (my GGF and ...

It is possible that way back, you have Spanish roots. But also consider that way back then, the Spanish and Italian languages were different than what they are today.

Most of our surnames come from the local dialect of our ancestors homelands. As those dialects are all sprung from Latin, just like ...

Totonno wrote:http://88.59.143.158/ascs_web/consulta_ ... 9F01.node1


Take a look and good luck!

WOW.... I am quite jealous! Wish they had this for my ancestors' regions!

I wonder why? =Peter= It's much less paperwork for anyone in Italy to hire an EU citizen. I have also been looking to teach English in Italy. The only realistic chance, in my opinion, for an American to work there is at a university. For any other school, it is really tough to get a good job ...

ascione_m wrote:I have found the details on my GGF through www.difesa.it but by that I mean using his name, Michelangelo Ascione, I was able to see his birth date, birth place, that he is buried in Italy, died 10 Sep 1917 in the field.

Mark, what part of that site can you go to to search for a name?

hahahaha that was great!!! I love "Josephine" LOL

I agree, those who were the most defenseless and innocent, the children, were the ones who bore the heavy burden of stigma that was associated with illegitimacy.

Interestingly, my grandmother never spoke of any of this. She loved her parents and her two brothers very much, as far as she was ...

i found the entries for both the marriage and death.i'll admit its close.my grandmother was born in 1883,a year earlier than the entry.but the name is close(costanti,costante)and the mother's name maria bonarrigo.but i think mention would have been made of this somehow.my grandmother arrived in ...

Happy Birthday! Suanj thank you for the help you recently gave me!

Moise absolutely = Moses. The modern French has two little dots over the "i" and no accent on the e. Modern Italian has no "i," but an accent on the e. Anyway, since this is 160 years ago, I wouldn't expect it to match modern spellings. Cool middle name!