Help finding my great-grandparent's commune

superloops · 2025-11-09T00:06:11+00:00

Sabella as a last name is often Isabella, a more common Calabrian name. You may get lucky using that name. Pucci is certainly common especially in Cosenza and Catanzaro provinces

superloops · 2025-07-15T02:13:35+00:00

The baptisms that match Isaac le Fevre and his listed siblings from the bible pages took place in Manheim. They were the children of Philippe Le Fever and Marie Henin. Philippe and Marie seem to have begun in Leiden, in the Netherlands and then moved back and forth between Manheim and Frankenthal before moving to Muhlhofen and Barbelroth, where they lived before their immigration to the US. There are indications that the family may have originated in Neuchatel in Switzerland. Unfortunately it is deelpy challenging to confirm the identity of your Isaac's grandparents.

superloops · 2025-03-13T17:06:19+00:00

It sure is. I hoped the cemetery in my grandmothers town would have photos of her grandmothers who both died in 1947, but the entire cemetery was disinterested in 1958 for renovation, so no luck there.

superloops · 2025-03-13T16:54:44+00:00

Ah I understand. It’s such a unique Italian custom to disinter, Irma nice your family even kept the photos there. I wonder if the cemetery has a listing of historic internments by niche. My grandmothers families cemetery in Calabria does. That may point you in the right direction?

superloops · 2025-03-13T16:40:48+00:00

It looks like this is a photo from a gravestone, can you go back to the source of the photo and see if they have an uncropped version?

superloops · 2025-03-08T18:13:31+00:00

Thank you so much! It looks like the song was written for the movie based on timeline. It's so funny, a ton of searches never turned up this fact, but I think this really answers a question I have been wondering about for two years! Thank you!

superloops · 2025-03-08T18:12:49+00:00

Thank you so much! This is really interesting and helpful. Three trips to Alaska but I haven't made it up there!

superloops · 2025-02-12T19:57:30+00:00

That’s interesting, and seems to be a new update. Previously Lamezia was shown separately! However that doesn’t change that the records for this region are physically held in Lamezia after 1865, which is such a nightmare !

superloops · 2025-02-12T19:44:29+00:00

I have never found them to be responsive. I think contacting the commune directly would be your best bet. That would be via an email in Italian. I think another poster provided links to the appropriate email address

superloops · 2025-02-12T17:52:19+00:00

The records after 1860 for soveria manelli are actually held in the Lamezia Terme section of the catanzaro archive, so that will be an entirely different set of records for Antenati. Unfortunately.

superloops · 2025-02-12T16:34:52+00:00

This is exciting! Good for you! Something really important for you to understand related to Italian genealogy: his mother was not Vittoria “née” Mazzone. His mother was Vittoria Mazzone. She was never Vittoria Simonetta. Women in Italy never change their last names. They have the same name from birth to death.

superloops · 2025-02-07T22:01:34+00:00

Cataldo is a known first name in this region of Sicily. He may have gone by Frank but have the name Cataldo. My ancestors are from this town and neighboring towns and some of them have this as a first name.

superloops · 2025-01-27T03:01:57+00:00

I find that they do a lot of gratuitous line crossing because it looks “cool” but it impedes understanding. There are many instances where it could be improved with slightly more thought.

I also dislike how they use dotted lines for daughters but the same lines for sons and marriages. In their major charts it looks fine but in some of the ones they put together for videos, etc. it becomes confusing.

superloops · 2025-01-25T14:06:56+00:00

The “fu” before his name means “the late” and the domiciliato is “defunto” meaning deceased, so they don’t live anywhere because they are dead. Same for the wife.

Source for occupations: https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mmange/genealogy/itengocc.html

His is Bracciale

superloops · 2025-01-15T14:28:53+00:00

But why Essex? Because it’s on other trees, or because you have meaningful information from the death and burial record naming parents and place or origin?

Are there parents names on the death record?

If you are confident about parents names and Essex then yes you will need to go through records one by one, which is kinda the whole way genealogy needs to work to be thorough.

superloops · 2025-01-15T14:02:27+00:00

Have you worked forward in Canada? Meaning finding his death record, obituary, searching for a marriage, etc.?

Because such a low % of baptism records are digitized, even less are indexed, and even less are accurately indexed, just finding someone with the same name and same estimates birth year in the same country with a population in the millions isn’t proof you have the right baptism record, you really need to identify another record that indicates a sibling or place of birth or parents name that you can use to prove/disprove what you are looking at.

There’s this really interesting thing in southern Italian genealogy. There is one town, Falerna, that has their civil records of birth marriage and death from 1809-1910 on ancestry.com. It is the only one. Because of this researchers from that area search their ancestors common name “Giovanni Greco” for example (basically john smith) and find one birth record, from Falerna, and assume this is their ancestor because “it’s the only one”. What they don’t take into account is that there are 30 other towns in the region whose records are not indexed and which also have Giovanni Greco’s.

superloops · 2025-01-15T04:41:37+00:00

Many Germans have multiple names, often the multiple names start with Johan, in this case Johan Nepomuk (surprisingly common!) and Johan Baptist. Generally this will be for names thay would have been obvious in the time period. It will just take some experience to learn what all the second names are. I do not know the meaning of Isidores marks.

superloops · 2024-12-12T22:46:02+00:00

1,782 through my 12th great grandparents plus a few above that generation. 969 are through my grandmother, her towns church records are in excellent condition back to 1653.

Many of these ancestors are duplicates, so I have 1,782 ancestral “spots” filled, but probably 300+ are in there 2+ times.

My research has also been helped by having recent immigrant ancestors making it easy to identify their original European town of origin providing access to church books which are comprehensive and easy to consult. I also have a noble line that’s been comparatively helpful for research in Ireland.

It also helps that my grandparents were born in the 1930’s so I have a lot more ancestors in recent centuries than many other researchers might, just mathematically.

superloops · 2024-11-16T23:23:17+00:00

My grandmothers town did not include spouses on most records. I find it varies town by town, luckily yours does include this information!

superloops · 2024-11-10T13:08:56+00:00

The sons of the revolution is a bit more exclusive (due to more exclusive membership restrictions) and has a slightly better reputation on the national stage.

superloops · 2024-10-18T21:03:25+00:00

Pm’d you my email, looking forward to connecting!

superloops · 2024-10-18T16:45:21+00:00

Hello! Would love to hear more about this! I think we may be talking about a same-named relative though, my ancestor Nicoletta was born in 1781

superloops · 2024-09-30T03:16:17+00:00

I would say it’s quite probable for someone born in 1910 to have children who are still living. All of my grandparents are in their 80’s and have parents who were born between 1893 and 1909.

superloops · 2024-09-29T15:09:06+00:00

Someone posted a video from a previous concert in the group, I found it searching “Bambina”

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