Thanks, Tessa! I just started going through these. My family emigrated here in 1911 but I've already found some useful information here.

I realized that this was in Latin because of the ecclesiastical record shortly after I posted this. The commune is Villarosa in Enna, Sicily.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your help! Is it common for records of this time period and location, central Sicily, to be written in Latin?

Hello,

I heard that this forum was a good place to find some friendly folks that could assist with translating handwritten records. Unfortunately my grandparents are no longer with us and my 2 years of high school Italian are just not cutting it on this one.

I recently came across the marriage ...

Hi Peter,

Thank you for the reply. I'm interested in knowing if they stayed in America or traveled back to Sicily. I'm looking for wives and children's names, birth and death dates and basically anything to extend that portion of the family tree. Ultimately I'd like to organize a family reunion as ...

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I am looking for information on and relatives of Giuseppe Scarpulla (b. 1883) and Filippo Scarpulla (b. 1888) from Villarosa, Enna, Sicily, Italy. Giuseppe and Filippo traveled to New York on the Principe Di Piemonte and arrived on 21 October 1912. They soon after joined their uncle ...