MY GREAT GRANDFATHER LORENZO GURRERI WAS FROM CATTOLICA ERECTEA, SICILY, ITALY AND I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND HIS PARENTS NAMES BUT EVERY ATTEMPT HAS FAILED OR BROUGHT ME BACK TO WHERE I STARTED. LORENZO MARRIED JOSEPHINE TERMINI AND THEN AFTER SHE DIED HE MARRIED HER SISTER ROSA TERMINI. THE TERMINI'S WERE FROM VALLELUNGA, CALTANISSETTA, SICILY, ITALY. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.....

"BECKY" <BECKAWOLF@AOL.COM> wrote in message news:1143758754.584546.45650@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com... > MY GREAT GRANDFATHER LORENZO GURRERI WAS FROM CATTOLICA ERECTEA, > SICILY, ITALY AND I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND HIS PARENTS NAMES BUT > EVERY ATTEMPT HAS FAILED OR BROUGHT ME BACK TO WHERE I STARTED. > LORENZO MARRIED JOSEPHINE TERMINI AND THEN AFTER SHE DIED HE MARRIED > HER SISTER ROSA TERMINI. THE TERMINI'S WERE FROM VALLELUNGA, > CALTANISSETTA, SICILY, ITALY. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY > APPRECIATED..... > Italy phone directory at http://www.infobel.com/italy has 16 listings of Gurreri in Cattolica Eraclea. Believe you have the second part of the name mispelled in your post, should be an "l" insteal of a "t". There are no Termini listings in VALLELUNGA, which shows, by the way, to be in Gallo Matese, not in Sicily. CALTANISSETTA is in Sicily, and the phone directory shows 15 Termini listings there. Maybe some of your distant cousins would be of help to you. Good luck. Joe in Georgetown, Texas

Hi! The correct name for the place, as already pointed out, seems to be Cattolica Eraclea. It's a town in the province of Agrigento. There are 14 Guerreri listed on the phone directory here: <http://elenco.libero.it/elenco/result.jsp? comune=CATTOLICA+ERACLEA&nMethod=2 &provincia=AG&regione=SICILIA&cognome=GURRERI+&cMethod=2> Among the others, there are 2 Lorenzo Guerreri living there. As names are often renewed, even nowadays, in Southern Italy, they might well be relative of yours. On Ellisisland I found him: First Name: Lorenzo Last Name: Guerreri Ethnicity: Italy Italian South Last Place of Residence: Cattolica, Girgenti Date of Arrival: Jan 19, 1909 Age at Arrival: 27y Gender: M Marital Status: M Ship of Travel: Moltke Port of Departure: Naples Manifest Line Number: 0006 He arrived in 1909, with his wife, Giuseppa (wrongly spelt Giuseppa) (english. Josephine): First Name: Guiseppa Last Name: Guerreri Ethnicity: Italy Italian South Last Place of Residence: Cattolica, Girgenti Date of Arrival: Jan 19, 1909 Age at Arrival: 22y Gender: F Marital Status: M Ship of Travel: Moltke Port of Departure: Naples Manifest Line Number: 0007 Cattolica is surely Cattolica Eraclea, and Girgenti is an old name for Agrigento. There's also maybe a daughter, Anna: First Name: Anna Last Name: Guerreri Ethnicity: Italy Italian South Last Place of Residence: Cattolica, Girgenti Date of Arrival: Jan 19, 1909 Age at Arrival: 2y Gender: F Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Moltke Port of Departure: Naples Manifest Line Number: 0008 But her name is deleted by pen on the ship passenger list. Lorenzo left his father in Italy, but there doesn't seem to be a name in there (I can't read well the paper). You can also see the web site for the commune of Cattolica Eraclea here: <http://www.comune.cattolicaeraclea.ag.it/> There's a commune named Vallelunga Pratameno in Sicily, but there doesn't seem to be Termini's, nowadays. <http://www.comune.vallelunga.cl.it/> Family History Centers have lots of information about Vallelunga: - Civil Records from 1821 to 1910 (Births, marriages, banns, deaths, citizenship records, miscellaneous documents, supplements.) - A book by Lorenzo Cipolla, Le famiglie di Vallelunga: genealogia dalle origini al 1990 (Families from Vallelunga: a Genealogy from origins to 1990) You'll probably find mention about Termini family in there. About Cattolica Eraclea, civil records from 1821 to 1910 are available, too (Civil registers from the municipality of Cattolica Eraclea in the province of Agrigento. Some registers include an index) You could also try and write to the 2 Communes and State Archives to ask for more info. Cattolica Eraclea: <anagrafe@comune.cattolicaeraclea.ag.it> Vallelunga Pratameno: <f.guagenti@comune.vallelunga.cl.it> State Archive Agrigento: <asag@archivi.beniculturali.it> State Archive Caltanissetta: <ascl.segreteria@virgilio.it> and <clatorrisi@katamail.com> I've already written them. I'll let you know if they reply. Hope I could help a little, Fabio In article <1143758754.584546.45650@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>, BECKAWOLF@AOL.COM says... > MY GREAT GRANDFATHER LORENZO GURRERI WAS FROM CATTOLICA ERECTEA, > SICILY, ITALY AND I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND HIS PARENTS NAMES BUT > EVERY ATTEMPT HAS FAILED OR BROUGHT ME BACK TO WHERE I STARTED. > LORENZO MARRIED JOSEPHINE TERMINI AND THEN AFTER SHE DIED HE MARRIED > HER SISTER ROSA TERMINI. THE TERMINI'S WERE FROM VALLELUNGA, > CALTANISSETTA, SICILY, ITALY. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY > APPRECIATED.....

Fabio, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you so much. You are an angel from heaven. God Bless you. Becky

Joe, thank you so much for the info. it is greatly appreciated. God Bless....Becky