My Italian branch of the family changed it from Cresci to Cressy. Supposedly, my GGF felt he could not get a job with the carpenters union with an Italian name. Family history has it that his parents and siblings were not happy about it. To date no one in that line has changed it back - though they ...

My GGGF Guiseppe Cresci came from Italy in 1880. He was born in 1849. The only document I have with the town he was born in is this application for a US passport, but I cannot decipher his claimed place of birth. I tried to search variation of what I think it is but found nothing. Maybe someone can ...

I am researching the Italian part of my family and I have info on my GGGF Guiseppe Cresci - application for a US Passport, but the town he claims to have been born in does not exist, as far as I have been able to look, or maybe I am reading something wrong. The town looks like "Roudousei" or ...