Please see the attached images for Nicola Di Giuseppe's testamento in Montevago. I'm looking for any relevant genealogical information regarding his parents or children. I know his wife's name is Anna Caldarone, and he has a daughter Antonina who was married to Antonina Gulotta. Thanks

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erudita,
Just sent you a PM with info regarding your marriage record and more.

If the index exists for a certain group of records, it should be in a folder called "Indicies". I'm not sure this would exist for every town and every "book" though.

It appears most of the towns have indices, albeit not very legible. Either way, lots of practice is definitely needed to decipher Italian Latin church records. I am more than happy to help you with any research!

Hello everyone!

For those that are not aware, church records for the entire province of Agrigento in Sicily were just recently published online. An account is required, but it is free. Here is the link! Enjoy!

https://www.registriparrocchiali.archiv ... cesiag.it/

Thank you!!!

Church records for the entire province of Agrigento were just recently published online!
https://www.registriparrocchiali.archiv ... cesiag.it/

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I would greatly appreciate assistance translating this latin church marriage record from Menfi, Sicily in 1670. The groom is Gregorio Mamalito and the bride is Margarita di Campo, parents Calogero di Campo and Francesca Franco(?).

What's with the groom's parents? Is Mattia Pollo ...

Thanks again for your input. Her (step) brother Lawrence was the informant on her death, so I assume he would have known those weren't actually her parents, but it does make sense either way that he put them as her "parents" regardless. Given the Platino surname and unknown parents on her marriage ...

I am currently in the proccess of acquiring her death record in New Jersey. It's a very long story, but there is information online that states her brother Lawrence Peluso (I'm assuming that's Lorenzo) filled out her death record, so that should be a pretty good source of her parents' names... or ...

I had mentioned that I had found several other cases of individuals with the surname Platino who also had unknown parents. I just found this more specific case of Augusto Platino in Triggiano -- which is near Bari, obviously nowhere near Napoli where Amalia was born, his "birth" was noted in parte ...

In Palma Campania on old civil records, no one Platino but by Alphonso Peluso genealogic tree on ancestry.com, and you are the owner, Teresa maiden name was Saviano.

or, and better second option, more probable, Amalia was the foster child of Teresina... Amalia had Platino surname at birth, most ...

So... you are saying that ONLY on the arrival manifests do they use the Platino surname? But used the Peluso surname in US?

A thought...
Travel documents were based on the birth act - perhaps they were born as Platino, but used their father's surname in USA? Italian women kept their maiden names ...

My great-great grandmother was Amalia Platino, born in Palma Campania, Napoli, Italy. I have posted about her before, but here's a quick summary. She married my great-great-grandfather in 1912 in NYC. On their marriage record, it says her parents were not known and that she was born in Italy. The ...

Matt, the surname of Giambalvo (albeit indirectly) and the commune of Santa Margherita di Belice loom large in my mtDNA research -- do you by any chance know of any family members from the area that may have migrated north into the Italian peninsula..? I am trying to connect the dots to 2 distant ...

The surname (cognome) of the deceased was changed by the court (26 Janauary 1875) because it was in error.
Girolamo's surname is Giambalvo, not Cusenza.

T.


Thank you so much T. I'm not sure if it says anything regarding it, but from my research I believe the mother's maiden name was actually ...