Mauro You have me confused. In Italy the women keeps her family name when she marries. It is the American thing for the women to accept the family name of the husband when she marries. When checking passenger ship listings I have found with my grandparents traveling from Italy to America the following. On the ships manifest when traveling with Michele Setaro, my grand mother, was identified only by her first name, Carmela. When traveling by herself the ships manifest listed my grandmother as Carmela Pascarella, her family name. When I obtained an Italian passport for my wife, she is identified as Jeri Shillington and not Jeri Setaro as on all Italian documents. Shillington is her family (maiden) name and as long as she is an Italian citizen she will be known as Jeri Shillington and not Jeri Setaro. A recent example was when she attempted to travel to Italy on Alitalia. Our flight tickets was made for Jeri Setaro and it confused the boarding agent when she presented her Italian passport identifying her as Jeri Shillington. She then had to produce her American passport to verify the name on the ticket was her name. When researching a women's name in Italy, because the women keeps her family name, it is easy to trace the women's side of the family line. In America the names on my mail box is Michael and Jeri Setaro. In Italy my mail box will have Michael Setaro and Jeri Shillington. I hope this makes it clear about maiden names between the two countries. Mike Setaro

My great grandmother arrived in the US under her "maiden name" Lia. In the United States she always went by her married name which was Martucci. I have a photo of her grave in Italy and she is listed Giacomina Lia Ves Martucci and it also has a photograph of her on it. Helene ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Setaro <jsetaro@att.net> To: <GEN-ITALIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 7:35 AM Subject: Re: Great Grandmother's maiden name > Mauro > You have me confused. In Italy the women keeps her family name when she > marries. It is the American thing for the women to accept the family name > of the husband when she marries. When checking passenger ship listings I > have found with my grandparents traveling from Italy to America the > following. On the ships manifest when traveling with Michele Setaro, my > grand mother, was identified only by her first name, Carmela. When traveling > by herself the ships manifest listed my grandmother as Carmela Pascarella, > her family name. > When I obtained an Italian passport for my wife, she is identified as Jeri > Shillington and not Jeri Setaro as on all Italian documents. Shillington is > her family (maiden) name and as long as she is an Italian citizen she will > be known as Jeri Shillington and not Jeri Setaro. > A recent example was when she attempted to travel to Italy on Alitalia. Our > flight tickets was made for Jeri Setaro and it confused the boarding agent > when she presented her Italian passport identifying her as Jeri Shillington. > She then had to produce her American passport to verify the name on the > ticket was her name. > When researching a women's name in Italy, because the women keeps her family > name, it is easy to trace the women's side of the family line. > In America the names on my mail box is Michael and Jeri Setaro. In Italy my > mail box will have Michael Setaro and Jeri Shillington. I hope this makes > it clear about maiden names between the two countries. > > Mike Setaro > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >