Dear David and Anne, Thank you for posting your request to the Switerland-L List. Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz 1989 has GUIDOTTI as an ancient Swiss Surname with citizenship maintained in only three communities in all Switzerland, those three being in Canton Ticino. Citizenship in each of these three communities was established before the year 1800, and has been maintained up until at least 1962, the year that FNBS ' 89 data was gathered. The three communities are: Semantina and Monte Carasso, really joined into a single town now. Location is two miles south of Bellinzona. And the third community, Biasca, located 15 miles north of the other two. Surname Mulindrini is not listed in FNBS ' 89. I believe it should be spelled Malandrini. Surname MALANDRINI esteblished citizenship before the year 1800 in one of the communities in which we find Guidotti, Semantina, and maintained that citizenship up until the present, with twenty-four Malandrini families listed in the Semantina phone book today. Searching the Ellis Island Project, <http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/>, gives this information from passenger manifests of ships debarking at Ellis Island: PASSENGER HOMETOWN YEAR AGE Attilio Guidotti Monte Carasso 1899 20 Carlo Guidotti Monte Carasso 1904 21 Carlo Guidotti Monte Carasso 1905 22 Enrico Guidotti Monte Carasso 1901 23 Ermina Guidotti Monte Carasso 1905 21 Fransesco Guidotti Monte Carasso 1901 32 Giudetta Guidotti Monte Carasso 1904 11 Silvio Guidotti Semantina 1923 18 & Erminio Malandrini Semantina 1901 19 Guidotti & Malandrini families in Switzerland are likely just as curious about the Guido & Malandrini families in America as you are about them. If you wish to write, let me know and I'll send you a list of addresses from the Semantina, Monte Carasso and Biasca phonebooks. Because the lists will be quite long, suggest you furnish a snail mail address to which they can be mailed. Pete Mattli Clermont, FL SSD Admin [email protected] [3-ggg's] ==================================== Subj: [SWITZ] GUIDOTTI/MULINDRINI Date: 12/10/2002 3:49:09 PM Eastern Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> Sent from the Internet (Details) Dear Group; We are new to this group, and desperitly trying to locate information on my wife maternal Ggrandparents, which we know very little about at this time. What we do know for sure is, Elvira GUIDOTTI was b. about 1890. She has a younger brother, Michael. We do not know the fathers first name, but the mother is Erminia MULINDRINI. They are from the Italian side of Switzerland (spoke Italian), supposidly near Lucearn. Elvira married in Washington State, Joe Cassabella, and has children Arthur; Rena and Catherine. Michael, married and widowed three times, never had children. If this sounds at all familiar to any one, we will be more then happy to hear from you. Thank you very much, David Edelman and Anne Dal Pozzo San Francisco.