So that IS the coat of arms! I thought it might be. I went to the web sites you mentioned but unfortunately I don't speak Italian which makes this research difficult and frustrating! When we cleaned out my husbands great-grandmother's house after she passed away I salvaged three big boxes of "stuff" that other family members were going to get rid of. In these boxes were numerous forms, pictures, and a huge amount of letters from family in Italy that I am unable to read. It's driving me crazy.
I took your advise that you gave to someone else and got the book "Italian Genealogical Records" by Trafford Cole and it's been extremely helpful in helping me figure out all the forms! I have birth records, death records, immigration records, passports etc. I have been able to piece together some information but I know there's probably a world of family history in these letters that I'm unable to read. They span a period of about 80 years starting in 1912 when my husbands great-grandfather came here. Even if I learned Italian I think it would be difficult to figure out these letters because of the way they write. There letter formations are different.
Do you know of a service that would translate these letters? Cheap!
And back to the coat of arms. The coat of arms site you gave me had no information about the meaning or origin so I'll probably have to write to the town for info.
Thank you so much Peter, I'm so happy I found this forum!
Oh! There was one site you gave me that I couldn't get to work. It was
www.comuni.italiani.it/024/069.
Catherine