Hi Anna

You can contact either forum member ricbru or forum member elba for these translations. Send them a pm.

Hope this helps

This might help

original name: Villa Giardino
geographical location: Punilla, Cordoba, Argentina, South America

Since your grandfather went to Argentina, this could be why Villa Giardino sounds familiar, it's not in Italy though.

Edit at 11:05am to add supporting link for information I provided ...

Hi StarV,

There was another thread listing the cost
http://italiangenealogy.tardio.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=8712.html

If you go to the 7th response from forum member suanj and the 8th response from forum moderator nuccia you will see what the typical charges are. You may want to send a pm to suanj ...

I can give you the basics

On the day - 18 the month of April the year 1907 the hour of 11 and minutes - 30 a boy was born (April 18, 1907.......11:30)

Name - Giovanbattista (Giovanni Battista) Grimaldi
Father - Giovanni
Mother - Nunzia Sabatino

I think your manifest Nicola joining brother Giuseppe is correct suanj.

For reference - 1915 manifest of Alfonso Cantillo - line 7
Alfonso is from the town of Sant'Agata di Puglia - province of Foggia - Region - Apulia (Puglia)

page 1
http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup_weif_5a.asp?src=%2Fcgi ...

Mike I just answered on the main forum.

Regards,
elizabeth

Hi Mike and welcome to the forum. The correct spelling of the town is....

Monteforte Irpino, province: Avellino - region: Campania

The LDS does have films (I think you just spelled the town name wrong) here is the link

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp ...

Do you know who the bracelet belonged to? Maybe your mother or grandmother?

David and ZD

I'm still working on the records and it's taken quite a bit of time but I'm going to keep going until I finish.

The full website is www.catanzaroexchange.com and belongs to another forum member (Cathynap). I'm also working on records for Spadola (just started) and will be doing ...

Hi Bri,

Without much to go on except Fisher (italian word Pescatore = fisherman)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mmange/itengocc.html?o_xid=0022468880&o_lid=0022468880&o_xt=22468880

I went on the steve morse site for ships manifests (coming to ellis island)
http://stevemorse.org ...

Hi Distant Dragon

Can you upload the document that has the name on it? And I just want to make sure that this is a surname that you're looking for and not a first name.

Thanks
elizabeth

Hi Mary Jo,

Biff gave me this link a long time ago for Italian communes - hope this helps out. Two possibilities for Pelligrino.

http://www.italyworldclub.com/8000_italian_communes/

Pellegrino Parmense, province: Parma - region: Emilia Romagna

Pellegrino, province:Firenze (Florence) - region ...

David what a great tribute to your family. Wonderful job and I love all of the maps during the different time periods.

Well done.

Elizabeth

Thanks for the links Laura. Do you know if the dictionary will be available in bookstores and if there will be an English printed version?

Thanks
Elizabeth

These two links should help you. The first one shows you the regions (color coded) and the name of each region associated to the number
http://www.italiantourism.com/regions.html

This link will give you the regions and the associated provinces. Once you select a province the names of the towns will ...