Thanks a million. I found a good map on the net and got both these places!!They are very small, but they are there and now I can visit them this summer.
Thanks again.

Thanks for the info. I had already gone to that website ,and even using soundex, nothing shows up.
I did receive a reply from the ever helpful Sujna in Italy that there is a -Poggio Di Bretta and a Mozzano, both in Ascoli Piceno province.
I looked at the map on the website you mention, but when I ...

Hello all,
I have found a naturalization certificate for grandfather Vincenzo Galie.
I have trouble locating his place of birth in Italy.

It is either 'Mazzino' or 'Mazzano'.

Also his wife Pierna is born in a place which I can not completely read from the document.

It is '_aggio di Bretta ...

I would like to ask'Peter'-or anyone who has info- if he can help with info about an Italian immigrant to the US who returned to Italy for a visit.I find them on the ships manifest on the return trip from the visits, but I can not find any info on the trip over from US to Italy?
Thanks Dave

I found a person in Louisiana with the last name of Galie -which is my family surname from the Ascoli Picena area of Italy-and listed in the census as being Black!!
I have no idea what this means.

Dear Trish,
Thanks again,especially for the info that there is more than one page on the manifest....very helpful.
I will definately use the form letter to get birth records from A.P.
Yes, I did look for(by telephone) the naturalization records in Montgomery County, since family history states that ...

hello Trish(again);
I went to ellis island again and found the second trip of my g-father to italy and back.,in 1912, which you mentioned.
Interestingly,above his name is another passenger from A-p-who was coming to Conshy to visit his cousin Pierina-Vincenzo's wife. Another family member!
I was ...

Hi Trish,and thanks for the helpful reply. Yes this is he. I remember that my grandmother said she had gone back to Italy for a visit.I did not realize that he went also. I wonder why she does not appear on the manifest.
Also, I had checked Ellis Island records and did not find this particular ...

Hello Suanj;
Her name was pierina silvestri;his was vincenzo galie.
thanks,
dave

I am searching grandparents from ascoli piceno(not sure if that is also the town or just the province) who left Italy from Naples in 1905 for the usa.
I would appreciate help in sources in ascoli piceno to locate birth and marriage records,also to search back for their parents and siblings in A.P ...

Dear Sir,
I am a new member and very interested in getting professional help in researching my Italian family from Ascoli Piceno.
Thanks,
Dave