"he states that the hospital, that he works in, is finally receiving equipment and pharmaceuticals on timely schedule" Evidently thanks to China, Russia & Cuba....... https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/25/821345465/for-help-on-coronavirus-italy-turns-to-china-russia-and-cu...

Cousins, Now that this thing has penetrated my existence in a deeper more fundamentally personal way, I have a glimpse of what you have been dealing with beyond just the terrible news bytes. I just wanted to say you all have my sympathy, empathy and I hope we all come out of this tragedy with the re...

"it's like their holding our ancestors hostage for a price." :lol: I've only run into a few family connections from C V, so I haven't spent the time to index the records. I was at a FHC to view all the records for that area that are NOT available online and asked them If I could just download the en...

Based on my personal research into my family from Foggia, in the 2nd link Pippo provided the information may be correct from a cultural basis but is not accurate genealogically. For instance it lists Casalnuovo Monterotaro as "Community extinct' and Casalvecchio di Puglia as "Maintains..." These two...

Interesting articles on that website--thanks for the link! Her 'personal' story is very similar to my ancestors.

I found that I was confusing too many people with accuracy :lol: ...Born in xxxx in The Kingdom of Naples/ died in xxxx in The Kingdom of Two Sicilies etc... I always now just use the current location name for genealogical purposes and have a brief explanation under the main location heading (this i...

I haven't had time to review film #001178118 to see if those marriage publications can fill any of the gaps in film #001178117 marriages. This is what I've got to put in my 'book' so far: 1814-15 MARRIAGES No Records-No Indexes 1816 MARRIAGES No Index. Records 1 thru 12 are missing #13 Pietro Antoni...

In the locations in Italy that I've researched, Donata is not very commonly used . The masculine, Donato, is seen more frequently. About 250 Andreola's in my tree; 0 Donata's (including Maria Donata's) / 5 Donato's About 125 Fino's; 0 Donata's (including Maria Donata's) / 0 Donato's About 100 Vendit...

I see it as Eugliichlico ...but I can't find any clues about it. Google doesn't seem to have anything on either version....

You're right! it is settantaquatro (74) not sessantaquatro (64)

That's a sorta tough one. The experts will have to fill in the blanks... What I see: Record 9-18-1864 Birth 9-17-1864 Father is Biagio Montelione (24) di ?????????????? Mother is Giuseppa Montelione di Leonardo Child is male but am uncertain of his given name....seems like too much for a straight An...

Sept. 2, 1872
Father=Pietrangelo Grosso, son of living Giovanni Gianni?, 33 years old, farmer
Mother=Anna Maria Selvaggi?, 28 years old, ?

May 29, 1872
Father=Pietrangelo Grosso, son of deceased Giovanni, 50 years old, farmer
Mother=Cecilia Farrace, 40 years old, farmer

Sorry that's all I can make out.....

Have gone through film #001178118-it has Casalvecchio Marriages 1855-1865 (1099 pages) 1855 index starts at Pg 6--records follow 1856 index starts at Pg 48--records follow 1857 index starts at Pg 82--records follow 1858 index starts at Pg 115--records follow 1859 index starts at Pg 144--records foll...