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liviomoreno wrote:This is what I read:
Salvatore Adelfio, widower of FRANCESCA Scardamaglia, father of a major daughter, aged 90 born in Palermo. Died 1846 Oct 16.
Would like to know if the mothers name is Nunzia or Ninfa and because they way its written as his father deceased Antonio ADELFIO do you think the mothers surname is the same ADELFIO
The dialects of modern Italian all have their roots in the spoken form of Latin (Vulgar Latin), in use throughout the Roman Empire. Vulgar Latin had, no doubt, its own local peculiarities before the fall of the Empire. The political instability that followed Roman rule kept Italy from re-uniting as ...