I have a bit of good news to pass along to any of you who wonder if you will EVER get help finding your family .Well I wrote to the Civil Authority last yr.in Sept and got no answer .on March of this yr .About a month ago I sent another one And lo and behold I heard from them yesterday . I also found some infro on my own .So hang in there If you are looking they do answer (even tho they said my grandma was 5 yrs when she had a baby ) they are not always right of course but than neither am I )I am gonna write and asked them again ..just thought you would like this little bit of infor. Buona Pasqua! Have a nice day! Donna Mayor <swindling@aol.com> CIAVARELLA surname mailing list: contact Donna Italian Puglia mailing list: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ITA/ITA-PUGLIA.html Italian Piedmont list: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ITA/ITA-PIEDMONT.html