Very interesting! Thank you for your help and recommendation. I went through all the birth records and did not find Carminella losing a child at the same time. Nor did I find any child that was born to unknown parent(s). Carminella did give birth to children in 1889 and 1895. So there is a gap of ...

My great grandmother (Giovanna Garofano) was abandoned at birth and adopted by Nicola Schiavone and Carmenella Minetti. I am unable to translate the attached record, but is this an adoption notice? Does it provide any information about her birth location, the foundling that took her in, or the ...

Thank you very much for taking the time to translate this record!

Thank you for the clarifying the named orphanage!

Hello, I was told that my great grandmother Giovanna Garofano was orphaned at birth. I found this birth record that may be a match! However, I'm not grasping the full situation by translating only certain words. I cannot determine who presented the baby; the role of the Oynirio branch; why the ...

Thank you Pippo! I have been going through page by page with no luck. I will try those other communes.

Yes, thank you I believe that is him. I came across the 1920 census, a birth record of his first child, marriage record and a railroad employee records and the name that came up most was ARGANESE and one instance of ARCANESE. I've searched Italian birth records under both names in Naples but have ...

I have been researching information on my great grandfather Angelo Argenas, born 11 Feb 1888 in Naples, Italy. There has been discussion that his surname may have been modified once in the U.S. I have obtained his social security application from 1937 and he listed his surname as Areanese ...