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This is a tough one to read. Not only is the writing tiny, but the reader printer at my FHC wouldn't copy it lighter than this
I can tell you it's the Marriage Bann of Maria Di Persio, daughter of Pantaleone and Rita Torello. Not sure of the dates, husband's name or his parents names. Are you able to make this one out? Thank you!
Thanks to my personal dynamic duo Marty and Tessa! LOL!
Marty, did you ever have a chance to view the record I posted the other week that you asked to see? it was the birth records from Montecalvo Irpino that only listed the father's name on the actual record and then listed both mother and father on the index's only. I find that so odd and just wanted to see what you thought.
Thanks Marty. Maybe I will run across more like that one but that's the first I've seen it. Those particular records are a nightmare to get off the films, because indexes don't match up with yrs, they are so tiny, etc. But I'm getting there, slowly but surely
Italians have a long and deep-rooted tradition of beliefs about luck and things that give either good or bad luck. In Italy there are colloquial names for bad luck. Think of:"sfiga" or "jella" (read it as "yella), but the most scary thing for millions of Italians is "Il Malocchio", which translate ...
