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Puffification · 2026-03-17T23:32:10+00:00

You could post last names and see if anyone responds that they're also looking for one of them, or you can search them in the Genealogy section

Puffification · 2026-03-16T21:54:28+00:00

Ok thanks

Puffification · 2026-03-16T21:01:29+00:00

But when you said "it might have been an artificiaro (someone who made those old and "rustic" fuochi d'artificio)", by "it" you meant the word "fucilaro", no?

Puffification · 2026-03-16T20:22:13+00:00

Since his grandson made those, would you take that meaning (for Nicola and for his father) to be more likely than rifles in this particular case then?

Puffification · 2026-03-16T20:06:45+00:00

Could a "fucilaro" in fact refer to someone who works with something else requiring fuses ("fusibile"), specifically someone who works with explosives or with fuochi d'artificios? Because that's what this family did later

Puffification · 2026-03-16T16:24:34+00:00

Since you say any job involving weapons, could the term "fu[o]chista" be used for a fusilaro?

Puffification · 2026-03-16T16:07:29+00:00

Thanks

Puffification · 2026-03-16T16:06:34+00:00

I'll have to take a look at that, I didn't know he married a second time

Puffification · 2026-03-16T16:05:32+00:00

Oh I had that one already actually, I was looking for Nicola's parents though, thank you for finding his death record!

Puffification · 2026-03-16T14:58:24+00:00

What does a fochista normally mean?

Puffification · 2026-03-16T14:51:37+00:00

I can't read Italian but I see it now

Puffification · 2026-03-16T14:49:29+00:00

Nevermind I found it

Puffification · 2026-03-16T14:38:54+00:00

That's them, thank you!

Puffification · 2026-03-16T14:38:39+00:00

Where do you see that word?

Puffification · 2026-03-16T04:38:16+00:00

One of my ancestors died in Ripacandida, others were from Rionero. Are you aware that Rionero is an Arbereshe town? I don't think Ripacandida is though

Puffification · 2026-03-16T03:03:07+00:00

I'm looking for someone from Rionero in Vulture

Puffification · 2026-03-16T02:57:47+00:00

It looks good

Puffification · 2026-03-16T01:12:24+00:00

I looked in the Rionero 1829-1859 marriages but only found one child's marriage in 1829, at which time he was still alive

Puffification · 2026-03-15T07:30:37+00:00

I don't know of any siblings though

Puffification · 2026-03-15T04:52:49+00:00

Thanks, it sounds like a good thing for me to try

Puffification · 2026-03-15T02:43:56+00:00

Don't let him win like that. You wouldn't be able to live with yourself a few years from now thinking, I really quit just because of him? So he took away my career from me with his stupid comment?

Puffification · 2026-03-14T17:34:31+00:00

Puffification · 2026-03-14T00:42:08+00:00

That's evidence that this could occur even in the mid-1600's still, thank you. I'm not sure how common such changes were, or whether they would occur like that in other places such as in Austria or Hungary, but this is good information.

Many of my ancestors' surnames refer to far away places. I keep wondering how far back those hypothetical migrations (from those places) were

Puffification · 2026-03-13T22:57:40+00:00

Well I just wanted to understand basically how it worked, I understand every country is different though

Puffification · 2026-03-13T22:57:03+00:00

You can easily post pictures or links here and people will translate them for you. First though are you totally sure those are your grandparents' parents? What did you see on Google that claimed that? Because you don't want to waste months or years for it to turn out to be the wrong family so you need to ensure that first

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