"joseph cook" <joecook@gmail.com> ha scritto news:1143754822.208261.321350 @i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com: > I received today a birth certificate of my great-great-grandmother born > 1854. > On it, her mother's maiden name is listed as Decavalli. > This is an odd surname, no? I can't find any record of anyone with > this surname, can anyone help? There are many Cavalli's in Italy today and they are concentrated in the province of Lombardia. Perhaps the De has been dropped in the name over time. Is the name one word or can it be De (or Di) Cavalli?