"sisibo" <sisibo@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1146315068.702254.288480@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > My name is Marialuisa Boin, I'm italian. I'm trying to understand how > the family Boin has moved in the world.In Italy this family is present > since 1300. I have made some investigations and I have found Boin in > France (since 1670), in Netherland (1750) in Brazil and Chile since > 1890. I have not found this presence in England. Can you help me?Thank > you very much and excuse me for my bad english. > sisibo@gmail.com > United Kingdom phone directory at http://www.infobel.com/teldir/result.asp?url=http://www.infobel.co.uk shows no Boin listings at all. USA phone directory at http://www.infobel.com/usa/ has over 300 Boin listings. Germany phone directory at http://www.dastelefonbuch.de/ has 111 listings of Boin. Ellis Island, USA immigration site at http://www.ellisisland.org/ has 41 listings of Boin immigrants, coming from many countries. Castle Garden, USA immigration site at http://www.castlegarden.org/ has 12 listings of Boin immigrants. Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild at http://www.immigrantships.net/ has no Boin listings, but one Boine from Scotland, and one O'Boin from Great Britain. Going back to the United Kingdom directory, we don't find either a Boine or an O'Boin listed. Using the LDS Family Search Advanced Search site at http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp and checking the box for "Use exact spelling" of the name, we find 206 listings, for various countries. Sorry, not a lot of help for you. Good luck on your search. Your English is fine. Joe in Texas, USA