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!! --- 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