This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chiote/Chiotti Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5MZ.2ACEB/920.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: One of my surnames is Chiote and I was told this was a Portuguese change for the Italian surname Chiotti. I live in Portugal and I was told my ancestors were Italian (Chiotti) and also that the surname Chiotti means fisherman from the Island of Chios (Greece) Do you by any change, have heard a similar story ?? Aldina