Why don't you do some research? Rent some microfilm, spend some money on postage and haunt some Stato civili? You have been asking the same question on every genealogy list for over 2 years. No one is going to fall from the sky and hand you a completed family tree. Go bore someone on the Corsica boards. You have worn out the Italian ones. Rosie In a message dated 4/14/2002 5:09:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, GEN-ITALIAN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > X-Message: #3 > Date: 13 Apr 2002 11:32:01 -0700 > From: Susanne86@aol.com (Susanne) > To: GEN-ITALIAN-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <37adf864.0204131032.5862c920@posting.google.com> > Subject: Bartalena Family > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > My great-grandmother, came to America in April of 1902, listed on the > ships manifest is Ida Bartalena,her childred here as follows: Maria, > Irma (later changed to Emma), Italia (later changed to Louisa), and > Ernesto. My grandmother was Maria, and on her marriage certificate, > her mother's (Ida)maiden name is listed as Tellini. I'm looking for > anyone who may have any of these people in their family trees. > Ernesto much later changed his name to Ernest Joseph Bartolane, and > claims to be born in Corsica, France, that information was obtained > from his application for his social security number. > This part of the family is truly a mystery ....