On 26 Aug 2002 14:45:12 -0700, ccarbone@banistmo.com (Carlos Carbone) wrote: >According to his marrigae certificate from a local church - november >27, 1889, he was from Genova, Italia and was 28 years old at that >time. Yes, there are lots of Carbone in Genua. As his marriage certificate let us know he was born after 1860, you should try and contact Genua's Comune and ask them for a historical search of your ancestor in their registers. There are two kind of registers. The Anagrafe ones where you can find information about where a family was living, the head of the house and all the people living with him at a certain time, and the Stato Civile, where you can find registrations for births, marriages, deaths and so on. I guess you should try and search for your ancestor's birth act. Alas, Carbone is a very common surname in Genua, so look out for people sharing the same name of your ancestor. Even as we talk, there are five Carlo Carbone on Genua's phone directory. About the Extracerra surname, I don't think she was Italian. The surname probably got distorted when she migrated. That's just my opinion, though. Catalina in Italy is Caterina or (once) Catarina. Anyways, if you can find his birth act, you'll find the answer to all of your questions ;) Here is the homepage of Comune di Genova: http://www.comune.genova.it/welcome.htm Hope it helps, Ciao, Fabio

Sounds good. Fabio, thanks a lot. Is there a website where I can find maybe e-mail addresses of people from genova sahring this surname? Thanks again Fabio. parrif_ibbNOSPAM@yahoo.com (Fabio Parri) wrote in message news:<3d6b2cbc.3207312@News.CIS.DFN.DE>... > On 26 Aug 2002 14:45:12 -0700, ccarbone@banistmo.com (Carlos Carbone) > wrote: > > >According to his marrigae certificate from a local church - november > >27, 1889, he was from Genova, Italia and was 28 years old at that > >time. > > Yes, there are lots of Carbone in Genua. As his marriage certificate > let us know he was born after 1860, you should try and contact Genua's > Comune and ask them for a historical search of your ancestor in their > registers. There are two kind of registers. The Anagrafe ones where > you can find information about where a family was living, the head of > the house and all the people living with him at a certain time, and > the Stato Civile, where you can find registrations for births, > marriages, deaths and so on. I guess you should try and search for > your ancestor's birth act. > > Alas, Carbone is a very common surname in Genua, so look out for > people sharing the same name of your ancestor. Even as we talk, there > are five Carlo Carbone on Genua's phone directory. > > About the Extracerra surname, I don't think she was Italian. The > surname probably got distorted when she migrated. That's just my > opinion, though. Catalina in Italy is Caterina or (once) Catarina. > > Anyways, if you can find his birth act, you'll find the answer to all > of your questions ;) > > Here is the homepage of Comune di Genova: > > http://www.comune.genova.it/welcome.htm > > Hope it helps, > > Ciao, > > Fabio