FamilySearch has just added tens of thousands of new birth, marriage, and death records from the Province of Agrigento:

https://familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https://familysearch.org/records/collection/1946817/waypoints

They are browsable only. The Italians of the time did us a huge ...

Bforni,

I took the two photos of the two halves of the 1907 manifest that vj was so nice to find and post. I combined them into one photo, I turned down the excessive brightness a little, I fixed a few things, I cropped it a little, I resized it to 70% so it isn't such a big file size, but it is ...

Wikipedia shows that the Province of Bari has 46 towns. In the handwritten town name, it looks like the second and third letters are an o and an r. Looking through the Town names in Bari, the only one that looks like a possible match is Toritto.

Macchia is a surname from Toritto, so I think Macchia ...

Nimby, and anybody else that wants to look at this image, I rotated and fixed up the photo, but it's still difficult to decipher the handwriting. I am sure one of the bilingual experts from Italy will be able to figure out the names and the other details, such as Lorenzo's age, which I think is 30 ...

fmrfabby1,

There is no such last name in Italy as "Azata". The name is almost certainly spelled Azzato.

Look at the part my chart of my sister-in-law's ancestors that has much info about the Pepe/Pepo family, and people named Azzato:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db ...

suanj,

I just now created an account here on italiangenealogy.com to thank you for the information you posted about the parents and grandparents of Annunziato "Nunziato" Pepe "Pepo" and his wife Teresa Parente Pepo. Those two people are ancestors of my sister-in-law. I have been making a chart of ...