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MY ANCESTOR,FRANCESCO LANDINO,WAS BORN IN PALERMO IN 1851.I HAVE THE BIRTH RECORD FROM THE CIVIL RECORDS OFFICE.BUT I NEED HIS BAPTISMAL RECORD AS WELL-HOPEFULLY TO FIND POSSIBLE INFORMATION AS TO WHEN AND WHERE HE DIED.AS THERE ARE MANY PARISHES IN PALERMO,HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE THE CORRECT PARISH OF HIS BAPTISM?HIS PARENTS,SALVATORE AND ROSALIA MANCUSO,WERE MARRIED IN SANTA OLIVA(A DISTRICT OF PALERMO)IN 1839.I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT PARISH EXISTED IN THIS PART OF PALERMO IN 1839-OR IF THE PARENTS EVEN STILL LIVED THERE 12 YEARS LATER,IN 1851,WHEN THEIR SON WAS BORN.ANY SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW TO PROCEED WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATED.
How about trying to get the SALVATORE AND ROSALIA MANCUSO Allegati matrimoniali SEZIONE SANT'OLIVA Allegati matrimoniali 1839 to find out if the church is listed in the allegati records. The only problem is there is a couple films for 1839 if you have the day and month I would email Family History Library and ask if they could see what film is the correct one with the names and date
just sent you the marriage of salvatore landino and rosalia mancuso(francesco's parents).i'll check with lds-but palermo is difficult to search.so many parishes.thanks marty.i'll see if photoduplication can check these films,as they havent been digitized(they'll check requests of films that haven't been digitized).
In the right side of the 1820-1865 acts of birth, you can read the date of the baptism and the name of the parish Church in which the child was baptized. Anyway, during my researches I have found children born in the Sant'Oliva section who were baptized in the churches Santa Margherita, Sant'Antonio Abate, San Giacomo la Marina and San Giovanni dei Tartari...
Contrary to popular belief, not all Italian given names have Christian or classical roots. Many names encountered in older records are almost whimsical, and some cannot be translated into Latin or any other language. In order to avoid possible mistranscription of a given name with which the research...
