On my visits to Sicily, its a thrill to have a clerk produce the original thick, dusty civil registers containing the records of my ancestors from the 1800s. Angelo got me off on the right step with the church records. I used several site to search my family on both sides & I got some leads but it was based on my childhood memories. IPA: /nn.na/ Similar to English which has multiple terms for grandmother including grandma, granny, gran and so on, you may also come across some dialectal variations on nonna depending on where you live. We have expanded to DNA for him as well, and he has some matches on the Sanfillipo side via autosomal testing. My paternal grandparents are from Villalba. But that is just a guess. You should not only search birth records, but records of marriage and death, which often give birthplaces of the proncipals and their parents. My grandparents were Michelangelo and Giuseppina Infurnari but the surname on my grandmothers tomb reads Giuseppa Falletta-Caravasso; we dont know where the name Falletta came from (it was not hers or her mothers maiden nor married name to our knowledge.) Then the nickname may have been transformed into a surname that was passed down to the original Giovannis descendants. Shortly after, I received an unexpected email in Italian about a woman at the Anagrafe who thought she might be related to me. If youre looking for early graves, you may find that they may no longer exist. Laura: There are a number of difficulties here. Here's a simple Sicilian pasta with sardines and fennel (both the wispy green leaves and the bulb) in a saffron-infused white wine sauce. Select the one you want and click the blue Search button, and a list of available records will appear. son was named after the man's father, that is, the boy's Do you know the name of the church in Villalba and Serradifalco? But did not know where he came from. The Sicilian records are generally more uniform and readable than northern records. The civil records are referred to as the Registri Stato Civile (Records of Civil Status). So I hope we get the chance to travel again and I am determined to learn proper Italian before we go; I will write to the Diocese, although I may have to invest in a local genealogist to assist. Mary Jo Anna Monte, Cefal civil records of birth, marriage, marriage banns and death for the years 1820 through 1910 are available on microfilms that may be rented from the LDS church at http://www.familysearch.org Records for 1862 1910 are on line at familysearch, at http://bit.ly/CefaluCivilRecordsOnLine.
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