Hi Vince I have tried but with no luck. You might try this scan the documents and send them to the forum and see if one of us can make out the handwriting. If the forum can not except the document send it to me and maybe I can help no guarantees also no charge. I thought of one more site that might help www.ellisislandrecords.org. Ciao Steve Vince 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