Hi Kenan,

the surname PALANGA is common in Puglia because the palanga or palanca is an instrument used to build the 'Trullo'.
The Trullo is an ancient stone build very common in the Alberobello area. here you can see one of them http://www.italyis.com/puglia/ars_hist/trulli/trullo2.jpg

The palanga ...

Tramonti is a town of the ancient 'Principato Citeriore', so there you can find civil records starting from first 1800s.
You don't know when they was married, so you can't ask for a marriage certificate without this date, otherwise your request will probably never be replied to.

From this birth ...

yes, it's a birth certificate.

here the transcription:

Provincia di Salerno
Comune di Tramonti

L'ufficiale dello Stato Civile certifica

Che Cesaro Abramo, figlio di Davide e di D'Uva Maria è nato nel Comune di Tramonti alle ore 12 meridiane del giorno diciotto del mese di Dicembre dell'anno ...

Lori,

yes,
basciano is again a town on the river Vomano, on the same route to the sea.
There was many routes to move sheep from mountains to the sea. The larger part of them started from just the Gran Sasso (translated it sounds like Big Stone) that is the most high mountain of center Italy, and ...

Capozucca is composed by the two words capo: head and zucca: pumpkin.
If your interest is about the surname Capozucca, the meaning is due to the common use of the nickname 'zucca' to tell someone that has an 'empty head' (is a 'testa di zucca').

norberto

All the towns tou're talking about are towns in the province of Teramo, on an ancient route on river Vomano towards the sea.
On this way there was the passage of sheeps twice a year from the high ground in the hills to the coast and vice versa. It is one of the ways for the 'Transumanza', the ...

the town is Torre Annunziata in Naples' provincia (about 25 km), is right edmondo, where my grandfather norberto was born in 1922.
Torre Annunziata is really at bases of Vesuvius, but there was several churchs at the start of 1900 that registered birth, death and marriage records.
in each case in ...

There is a grat confusion in italian towns organization, I know...
However: Guardia Vomano is an ancient town, now part of a larger town Notaresco in province of Pescara Teramo. Same for Montepagano that is part of Roseto degli Abruzzi (province of Teramo).
You have to write to this towns to have ...

The surname Pucillo is diffused all over Campania. Due the fact that you talk about Montemiletto, I suggest you to try the search in "pagine bianche" using in the third field the code AV. You will have all the Pucillo living in Avellino and in towns of that district.

norberto

PS: I can suggest in ...

Hi Tina,

Peter is right about the difference between Torre del Greco and Naples; moreover, is possible that your relatives are now living in another 'comune' on the gulf.
I can suggest you another way: here in Italy you can affidate your self to the catholic church ;-)
To be serious, you have as ...