The 1870-1872 marriage acts are found here in the 1866-1872 grouping. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9Q7-1QLV?i=2&wc=MC5K-YZS%3A348448401%2C348705401%2C348708501&cc=2043436 1870 Pg 469, 1871 Pg 559 & 1872 pg 671. The 1873-1890 Marriage acts are here: https://www.family...

No, not my ancestor....I belong to another genealogy website and try to help others there with all the things that you and all the other wonderful people here have taught me (which I'll be forever grateful for!).....If It is beyond my abilities, I either send them here or post the question for them ...

@suanj...."can post the page 40?"....this is the problem with sites that require pay...I don't have an account and was relying only on what was shared with me...... @ bbivona....Thank you for clarifying! So some narrowing of the field.....which is ALWAYS the goal :lol: I know my ancestors ...

Thanks for all the insight Y'all! Yeah, I got fixated on there being an i in the word :roll: He's found another record "Update - Page 40 of his "Enemy Alien" file shows birth as "Modono" maybe Modena." I thrashed around with that a bit ---Did NOT find a birth in June 19...

Thanks, but all that was pretty clear....what the guy I was hoping to help was drawing a blank on was where Pietro was from...I couldn't help him at all :cry: Ereraio ? .... I don't understand that first letter & I can't find anything that seems to fit. I'm assuming that since the outbound port ...

https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/1/1f ... lier-1.jpg

Everything else is clear----- but where he is from---any ideas?


Thanks

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The 1890 birth lists her as Maria & the possible marriage record as Angela Maria----with out more research , I can't answer about Maria Grazia.....

With the marriage https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97F-8WRN?i=816&cc=2043630&cat=2576 that PippoM supplied in the past, the puzzle pieces appear to be arranging themselves...... I've spent a minimum amount of time in the records for this area, but in that brief time have not...

Also see Francesco Di Lucia Sposito born January 1826 to Lorenzo & Gelsomina D'Angelo.

http://dl.antenati.san.beniculturali.it ... ewsIndex=0

Dennis, have a look at Antonio Sposito, son of Francesco & ?Gelsomina? De Lucia, born in July 1859......which would make him 41 at the 1890 birth record you have.....I can't make it all out but note the change from Antonio Sposito to Antonio D' Lucia Sposito..... http://dl.antenati.san.benicultu...

Thank you!

Ahhh! THAT 'letter' makes ALL the difference Mille Grazie for the clarity Tessa!

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Q7-YZLY?i=133&wc=MC5K-YZ9%3A348448401%2C348705401%2C348707301&cc=2043436 Publication of marriage for Luigi De Salvia & Antonia Ruta.... Marriage followed https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Q7-YZXY?i=165&wc=MC5K-YZ9%3...

The Europa manifest (#15) lists his age as 24 (vs 21) and makes birth in 1883 more solid... I can't quite make out his destination location....? https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9R8-CXFD?i=455&cc=1368704&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AJXVW-WJZ This is likely his JANU...

Wow! I could tell just enough to know that it was a very unusual departure from the 'normal' documents I see in the marriage records....but what you've transcribed is quite a story! :shock: Thanks guys for your help! That was above & beyond Arturo & I really appreciate the time & effort ...