Great, and thank you Tessa! It's always perfectly clear once someone tells you what it says!

(Now I wonder how her son ended up in Sicily before he made it to America!)

I am trying something new here - Donna coached me through how to get the image online, so hopefully this is it and you can look at it without contacting me! If it works, thanks to Donna. If not, 100% my fault!

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Okay, now that you told me there was such a thing and I scoured the site....sure enough, there it is! So feel to PM me instead!

Hi! I am trying to determine the mother's maiden name on a US death certificate. Not being familiar with Italian surnames I can't even begin to guess.

And of course the record is not on a public site, so if you are willing to give it a try, you can email me at kate@historyandheritage.co and I will ...

Thank you - found her civil marriage record almost immediately upon receiving the films.

Is there a site that has a translation of the "form" used for the Atti di Matrimonio? I can puzzle out the names, dates, locations, but would love to have all of the legalese included.

I am trying to find information on a friend's grandmother, and of course the family has almost no information.

What they do know is:

1) her name was Maria Tolino (thanks to jamiecapaldi for the list of names from her region - now I have the correct spelling of the last name!)
2) she was from ...