Hi,
Through much appreciated help here in the forum I learned of a new surname in the family. It had been a deciphering problem on an American record.
The name is, as found on the Italian record,
Gelvitto.
Index #93 in the birth record below (mother's maiden name)
(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/T ... ,354002301)
I have used the White Pages of Italy, and an Italian website called gens.info
To find any person with this last name in Italy, to no avail. I have searched the web for "rare Italian surnames", no mention of the one I am looking for.
Is it possible the name is entirely extinct?
When I google search the name only a couple of people with the First name Gelvito pop up, but no surname, and nothing in Italy, and nothing very similar either (except Gelbito)...
What would you do next?
Surname does not exist anymore?
Re: Surname does not exist anymore?
The 1806 census for Struppa is online and the surname is not there. I also looked through some early indices for Genoa and don't see it.
http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.i ... o/Struppa/
Erudita
http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.i ... o/Struppa/
Erudita
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Re: Surname does not exist anymore?
Try to find the marriage record of the parents named in this birth act. The names of the mother's parents should be recorded in that marriage act.
If her parents are unknown, ("ignoti") then it might be possible that she was a foundling, and that her "cognome" was invented for her at the time of her birth. If that is the case, then it would explain why you cannot find it either in Italy today, or in historical records.
If her parents are unknown, ("ignoti") then it might be possible that she was a foundling, and that her "cognome" was invented for her at the time of her birth. If that is the case, then it would explain why you cannot find it either in Italy today, or in historical records.
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Re: Surname does not exist anymore?
Thanks guys! This is something I can work with! Very helpful )
Re: Surname does not exist anymore?
I looked earlier at some of the marriage records in Struppa and couldn't find it. Hopefully you'll have better luck.
Erudita
Erudita