On 31 May 2002 17:29:40 -0600, nicola1902@yahoo.com (Margie Papa) wrote: >I had the same problem Vince! My mother grew up >with her gradparents living next door as they came >here in the late 1890s when my granmother was 6. I >looked up her obituary in the paper. Not only did >it have her 'birth' name--Italians and many other >nationalities don't have maiden names -that is an >american thing---but it had the names of her >parents in Italy!! I'm sorry, but this doesn't make any sense! Why wouldn't women have a maiden (surname) name? Regards JF P.S. In Italy women get to keep their maiden name throughout their married life! > > >--- Vince <vpicozzi@NOSPAMblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >> I am having a problem in trying to find out my >> great grand mother's maiden >> name. >> On her son's birth certificate it is recorded as >> Gottimarty but on another >> certificate it is recorded as Cadamatia. Bearing >> in mind the fact that she >> could not read or write I imagine that the >> English registrar wrote down what >> he thought he heard when confronted with an >> unusual name in a thick Italian >> accent. >> I have tried researching these names with no >> success. >> Can anybody make any suggestion to what her name >> might of been. >> The only other information I have is that she may >> of came from the Genoa >> region of Italy. >> >> Many thanks >> Vince >> >> >> >> ============================== >> 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 >> > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup >http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com