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by ELLENMONTE
18 Apr 2016, 15:31
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)
Replies: 19
Views: 3848

Re: Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)

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Under nationality, Carmine, Lucy and Giuseppe (oldest son) have something next to their name that I can’t make out – It’s about 7 letters so I am assuming it is Italian. Citizen (?)
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Possibly. There could be a z there. If you are interested, the manifest is attached. They are the first 7 ...
by ELLENMONTE
18 Apr 2016, 04:25
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)
Replies: 19
Views: 3848

Re: Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)

FIRST -- THANK YOU EVERYONE!
If you are still interested -- I learned some new information from my Aunt last night and some more just a few hours ago from some records I never scrutinized before.
On all the censuses I can find, they listed all their kids as being born in the US. My Aunt knows this ...
by ELLENMONTE
18 Apr 2016, 03:22
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)
Replies: 19
Views: 3848

Re: Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)

Thank you, thank you thank you!!!

How are you finding these names? I don't see a way to search. Are you just browsing through all the pages searching for names?
by ELLENMONTE
15 Apr 2016, 21:04
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)
Replies: 19
Views: 3848

Re: Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)

Thank you very much Tessa for the translation; that gives me a lot of info about the family of my G-aunt's husband, who may also be related to be as my G-Grandmother was a Marra also.

And thank you so much Livio! I never expected to get the actual birth record!

I think I have done as much as I ...
by ELLENMONTE
15 Apr 2016, 17:53
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)
Replies: 19
Views: 3848

Re: Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)

Thank you very much Tessa for the translation; that gives me a lot of info about the family of my G-aunt's husband, who may also be related to be as my G-Grandmother was a Marra also.

And thank you so much Livio! I never expected to get the actual birth record!

I think I have done as much as I can ...
by ELLENMONTE
14 Apr 2016, 01:17
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Americanization of Italian first names
Replies: 10
Views: 4898

Re: Americanization of Italian first names

Thank you for the link. I am just really starting to research all this and find everything so interesting. Though I feel said that "Another popular girl's name that had no hope of survival was Assunta." My grandmother, who was born on the Feast of the Assumption" in NY in 1801, was named Assunta ...
by ELLENMONTE
13 Apr 2016, 18:34
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)
Replies: 19
Views: 3848

Letter translation needed written in 1921 about G. Marra ( Sant'Angelo, Aveliina, Campania)

I have a letter that is about my great-uncle, Guiseppe Marra, who was born in Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi in 1875. It's about his birth and I think it was done in lieu of a birth certificate. I would love from someone to translate.

Giuseppe emigrated to the US sometime before 1901. He married my ...