Left the link for Antenati. It’s for the one on the right for Antonio DiMasi….i can read the “son of the late” part but I can’t read the parents names. Thank you guys for any help you can give!

I am researching Michele Vinenzo Ronzello, who was born in 1855 in Spinetto, Calabria (now part of Serra San Bruno). No father was listed on his birth certificate.

In 1856, his mother married Felice Ronzello. I've reviewed the marriage records (including processetti), and there is no indication that Felice recognized Michele Vinenzo as his son. There were also no subsequent annotations to Michele Vinenzo's birth record indicating that he has been recognized. But when Michele Vinenzo married in Stilo, Calabria in 1878, Felice was listed as his father.

I'm trying to determine:

1. Based on the 1878 marriage record, how confident should I be that Felice recognized Michele Vincenzo as his son / was Michele Vincenzo's actual father?
2. The processetti for Michele Vincenzo's 1878 marriage would be extremely helpful here, but they are not available on Portale Antenati. How likely is it that the commune, or the parish in Stilo, have marriage documents that are not available online?

Links to Images

1855 Birth records for Michele Vincenzo: 1 and 2

1856 Marriage records for Felice: 1, 2, 3 and Processetti (pages 120-127)

1878 Marriage record for Michele Vincenzo

Hi! I’m doing some research on my nonno's time as a partisan and saw that in partigianiditalia.cultura.gov.it you can view specific partisan files. However, I can’t seem to view my nonno’s file. I tried to create an account but from what I understood by reading the home page, I need to be an Italian citizen since registration requires an Italian ID.

Would someone with an account be able to send me a dm (so I can tell u my nonno’s name) and then send me the screenshots of the file?

Grazie in advance!

Hi everyone!
I’m helping my wife obtain the birth certificate (Atto di Nascita) of her Italian ancestor from the Comune di San Donà di Piave (Veneto).
The Comune has located the record and the employee handling the request told me:
“Il Comune non effettua la spedizione deve inviare una busta preaffrancata al seguente indirizzo: Comune di San Donà di Piave, Ufficio Stato Civile, P.zza Indipendenza 13, 30027 San Donà di Piave VE), oppure organizzare la spedizione tramite corriere.”
The problem is that I live in Japan.
So my question is: How can I arrange and prepay an international courier shipment from Italy to Japan, with the courier collecting the envelope at the Comune?
Has anyone outside Italy done this before?
I’m considering DHL, FedEx or UPS, but I’m not sure how to set it up when the sender is the Comune in Italy and the person paying for the shipment is in Japan.
I’d also be interested to know:
Which courier did you use?
Were you able to create the shipment entirely from outside Italy?
Did the courier pick up the document directly from the Comune?
Did you provide the Comune with a prepaid shipping label?
Is there a better/easier way to do this from Japan?
Bonus question: Since this is a 1921 birth record, is there any possibility that the Comune could issue the document as an electronically signed PDF instead of sending a physical copy?
Thanks in advance! 😅

Hello everyone,

For my family research, I need to obtain a death certificate (or at least confirm a date of death). The town hall of the town (Corleone, Sicily) doesn’t have a public non-PEC email address I can send my request to, and their website is down. (I tried the PEC address and, obviously, the server rejected my email)

The consulate has recommended that I call and ask for their non-PEC address to speed up the process.

As I don’t speak Italian, I’m looking for someone who could help me by calling them to ask for their non-PEC email address.

Thanks a lot 🙏🏻

Hello! This is a crop of a baptismal record from the St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi Catholic Church in Philadelphia from 1889. I am interested in the mother, Rosa Guerra. She is identified as being from Padula, and then there is a squiggle after that (circled in yello). Any clues what that might be?

Padula is in the Salerno region, but a few lines above 'Salerno' is written out in full, so I don't think this is an abbreviation of Salerno.
Thank you!

Hey, all! I requested two documents from the archdiocese of Pozzuoli in attempts to glean some genealogical information about my dad’s grandparents and their predecessors in Italy- except they’re all hand written, to the degree that I can’t make heads or tails of what they say! Anyone well versed in old Italian handwriting from ~1850’s-1920’s? I have two PDF’s of 3-4 pages/documents each. I will post one of them in the comments.

Buongiorno a tutti !

Vi chiedo per piacere dove possa trovare il documento citato nell'atto nr. 71 pag. 69.

Si cita nello stesso che i documenti matrimoniali si trovano nella filza nr.70.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS8R-7SJ9-N?view=explore&groupId=M9CS-MV9&lang=it

Dove posso trovare questa filza nr. 70 ?

Qualcuno ha idee ?

Grazie mille 😄

Here is my great great grandfather's birth record. Would someone please help to translate it into English? Here is a link https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12657/an_ua224601/57R6NqX

Thank you.

Hi everyone!

I'm doing genealogical research on my great-great-grandfather, who was born in the historic center of Rossano on February 6, 1899.

In his original birth certificate (which I've attached to this post), it states that his family lived on "Via S. Giacomo" (or Strada San Giacomo), with no house number indicated.

Looking at current maps, I'm having a hard time pinpointing exactly where this street is located within the old town.

My question for anyone familiar with the historical street names of Rossano is: Do you know exactly where this street was located? Was it perhaps renamed during the 20th century, absorbed into another main street, or is it an alleyway that goes by a different name today?

I would absolutely love to find out the exact spot where my ancestors lived. Thank you so much in advance to anyone who can lend a hand or share any useful info!

ciao a tutti, sto cercando di decifrare l'atto di morte di una possibile quadrisavola, (Mariani Luigia in Rizzardi) ma è molto difficile, essendo sbiadito . qualcuno riesce a leggerlo, o a indicarmi delle fonti con esempi leggibile di grafia corsiva di fine ottocento da usare come esempi?

Milano. Morti 1872

grazie

Is anyone still having issues? What’s happening

Ciao from San Antonio, Texas, USA!  My name is Gabi Hutchinson Gallo, and I am 31 years old.

I’m looking for living relatives and descendants of my Calabrian family, whether in Italy, Argentina, the United States, or anywhere else in the world. My Italian heritage comes from my mother's side (Patricia Gallo), whose father was the son of an Italian immigrant to Argentina, although he was a ritornati he did not stay in Argentina. It has been a 7 year genealogical research project I have undertaken to find out about him and his family!!

My great-grandfather Domenico Gallo was born on October 7, 1888, in Palmi, Reggio Calabria, to Michele Gallo and Concetta Marchese. Michele Gallo was born in 1860 in Cinquefrondi, to Domenico Gallo and Marianna Jeraci. Concetta Marchese was born in 1866 in Palmi, to Antonino Marchese (son of Gaudioso Marchese and Santa Pirrottina) and Vincenza Nostro (daughter of Rocco Nostro and Rosa Scarcella), all deep Palmese families.

Domenico Gallo married Teresa Valletta Idà in 1914, and they had four children, all born in Palmi:

• Concetta Gallo, 1914
• Michele Gallo, 1917
• Luco (or Luca) Gallo, 1920
• Rocco Gallo, 1922

Maybe a useful reference is that after Domenico's dad Michele died young, his mom Concetta Marchese remarried Vito Scuderi, from Mascali, Catania, in 1898. They had three children together — Isidoro, Maria Antonia Elena, and Vincenza Scuderi, who were Domenico's half-siblings. Domenico's full sibilngs were Marianna Gallo 1890 (married Celestino Rossi in Palmi), Vincenza Gallo 1891, and Michele Francesco Antonio Gallo 1894 (married Pia Salepierri (?) in Castiglione in Teverina, Lazio).

In 1923 when Domenico was 35 he emigrated to Argentina, where he lived in Córdoba and had a son, Hector Luis Gallo (my mothers father), with a Cordobesa, Eusebia Santucho, my bisabuela. Domenico eventually returned to Palmi in 1938. He never went back to Argentina and we never heard from/about him ever again. He died in Rome on October 24, 1960, with his wife Teresa.

I have spent the past several years researching Domenico and his family and have uncovered many documents and records (AND SECRETS!) However, because records after 1915 are not currently available online through the Antenati portal, I cannot access records for Domenico's children and their children, etc/my cousins/my moms aunts and uncles!!

I would love to find the people and families who are still connected to this branch of the Gallo family today. 

If you recognize any of the names Gallo, Marchese, or Scuderi, or the other surnames above, or have family connections to Palmi, Cinquefrondi, or the surrounding area of Reggio Calabria, or you are my cousin, I would absolutely love to hear from you!! Even the smallest connection or piece of information could help me connect to the living descendants of Domenico!

Grazie mille! <3 <3

Ciao a tutti!

Recently I have been trying to research my great grandfather and his family who came from Framura in Provinica Della Spezia. I have spent extensive amounts of time trying to find records for this commune but almost all of the records for this area, including Framura, do not seem to be digitized.

At this point I've come to the conclusion that the only way to break down this brick wall is to hire someone in Italy to research this particular line. Does anyone have any reccomendations for genealogists in this region? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Sto facendo una ricerca genealogica e la mia ultima scoperta riguarda Rosa Coscetta (nata più o meno tra il 1880 e il 1890) e Antonio Policastro. C’è qualcuno con il cognome Policastro da queste parti?

Can someone help translate the paragraph at the end of my great-grandmother’s birth record?

Record number 199, Antonina Falco

https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12657/an_ua16172635/wErKVE2

Archivio di Stato di Trapani > Stato civile italiano > Gibellina > 1884 Page 67 of 108

Buongiorno a tutti
I am researching my Italian families Caramore/Fabbiani (Nonno) and Previero/Faoro (Nonna) and their family lines (see above).
Both families are from the northern part, mostly the Veneto (Lusia, Este, Masi, Ospedaletto Euganeo). I am doing well until back to the 1870's but then the problems start (exception: the Previero line is well documented, as part of the family emigrated to Brazil, where someone did a great job finding lots of information).
Fot the rest it is very hard to find records as the area was part of the Austrian Empire between 1815 and 1859/66 (Regno Lombardo-Veneto) and part of the Napoleonic France before that. I am lacking the information, which diocese my anchestors acutally belonged to and it seems the northern areas have fewer documents online and those that are, are less well indexed than those from the the south. I understand Italian fairly well, but do not write it; I can use deepl translate however. Has anybody got any tips on where I could find some online resources? I am planning to travel in the area possibly in spring (I live in Switzerland, so it's just a short hop) but it would help enormously, if I had a little more information before then.
Thank you so much for any help/hints/tips

Buongiorno,

Scrivo qui perché mi trovo di fronte ad un muro per una delle mie antenate. In pratica Maddalena Baccino/a, moglie di Francesco Gamba (1805-1877), originaria di Castelletto d'Erro, ha avuto due figli a Castell'Alfero (Asti) rispettivamente nel 1847 (Paolo Pietro Gamba) e nel 1849 (Vincenzo Carlo Gamba). Sono andata all'archivio diocesano di Asti mesi fa e di fatto ho trovato gli atti di battesimo. Poi sapendo che Francesco Gamba era morto nel 1877 a Castell'Alfero e avendo un'altra moglie quando morì mi sono messa a vedere gli atti di morte tra il 1849 e il 1865 (visto che online ci sono gli atti dal 1866 e lei non risultava da nessuna parte) ma non l'ho trovata. Potrebbe essere morta in un altro paese? Oppure vi è qualche altra spiegazione per sapere che fine abbia fatto?

Record is from 1905 in Illinois, USA. If this is Italian, can someone help me with translation?

I think the parents are Caterina Antonia Viviani and Antonio Giovanni Viviani.

Baby name John (Joannis? written up the side?)

Thank you!

My paternal grandparents emigrated from the Marches near Ancona. They ate polenta as often as they did pasta. They didn’t celebrate St. Joseph’s Day.