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by Leavmfls
07 Feb 2025, 17:11
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Italian great grand father with a specific last name
Replies: 6
Views: 351

Re: Italian great grand father with a specific last name

Thank you ! I've just received his baptismal certificate and it's been explained to me that it was a name invented or given because of someone. His full name is Ernesto Antonio Wimfles (only the V changes) Thanks to you!
by Leavmfls
05 Feb 2025, 15:14
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Italian great grand father with a specific last name
Replies: 6
Views: 351

Re: Italian great grand father with a specific last name

No, he was abandoned and found in front of the hospice. What I find strange, even if it's a made-up name, is the fact that it doesn't sound at all Italian, and there are people with similar surnames (Vinfles, Wimfles) from Germany, Austria etc. I've never heard of them. Here's the birth certificate ...
by Leavmfls
04 Feb 2025, 16:57
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Italian great grand father with a specific last name
Replies: 6
Views: 351

Italian great grand father with a specific last name

Hello everyone,

Hope you are doing well.
I am conducting genealogical research on my great-great-grandfather, Ernest Vimfles, who was born in Susa, Italy, in 1872. He was abandoned and, I believe, taken in by an orphanage. I have obtained his birth certificate, which states that both the first ...