Send email to: leonardociampa-at-gmail-dot-comWhere two different ancestors had the same name, I added the father's name in parentheses (e.g., "di Giovanni"), or, if they were father and son, I added "Sr." and "Jr." The civil records go back only to the early 1800s. For anything earlier, all we have are church records, which were in Latin. The Latinized names were translated into Italian without comment (e.g. Horatia = Grace, Laurentius = Lorenzo, Blasius = Biagio, etc.). In almost all cases there was no question about what the Italian name was (e.g. Petrus = Pietro, Josephus = Giuseppe, Raphael = Raffaele). Only in rare instances could there be more than one translation (Hieronymus = Girolamo OR Geronimo). Heartfelt acknowledgements to the following: For the relatives from Torre le Nocelle (Avellino), Carm Cefalo & Florindo Cirignano (tlngenealogy.blogspot.com). For the relatives from Mineo (Catania), Mario Limoli. For the Maggio line, Maria Maggio. For the Musto line, Susan from Colorado. For the relatives from Bronte, the website Il Genealogista (https://www.ilgenealogista.it/). For anecdotal information about my paternal grandfather's family, my cousins in Montefalcione.
The ancestry report uses 'Ahnentafel' numbering. This means that a person's parent's numbers will be twice as large as the person's number. So if someone's number is 15, her father will be number 30, and mother will be 31. Her child will be number 7.
Leonardo Ciampa
Worcester, Massachusetts
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