This is very interesting, I had no idea that the church marriages weren't recognized by the state. I'm finally sitting down to examine the rest of these records and the mother's name is not listed outside of the marginal note. Your comment on another post helped me figure that out, thank you so much ...

Thank you so much! This explains some mysteries and gives me new ones to solve. There were at least five children born prior to this marriage with a gap of about 8 years between the first two and the last three. I haven't started to decipher the birth records yet but this context will really help ...

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Can anyone parse the marginal notes on the birth records for my great grandfather and one of his brothers? Stanislao is their father, Giuseppe their mother. The only other thing I can recognize is a reference to number 36, but I have no idea what that means. Is it odd for "Signor" to be in ...