Corrado or Currado is common in the center of calabria.
Tell me your ancestor and the town of origin.

MaxIt

If you have the exact name of your ancestor I could check in the italian registries.

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MaxIt

missjessie wrote:Hi Max. Do you have a Giuseppe Statti (1815-1887) that was married to a Maria Cacozza?

Yes.

It might have been Lamonica
please tell me where do you come from

Evidence shows that all the Statti of Gizzeria and Nicastro are related, in fact, they all descend from the first one in Italy, Giovanni Statti, that come from Albania in 1500.

In the tree there are all the Statti of Gizzeria (together with the ancestor of MissJessie) and the barons of Nicastro ...

Another similar common surname is Mannarino, think about it

Surname Rosato is present in Gizzeria, Italy

There are many Cinquegrana in Sambiase, Lamezia Terme, Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy and nearby villages.

In the Ellis Island records you can read that

Gasperino Calabria has a wife Anna
a son Giulio and a daughter Palma and father Gennaro.

I think that this is enough to start a research into the
civil record of Gizzeria.

There is a small forum for Ancestry search in Gizzeria

http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maxreen/ph ... um.php?f=2

You can ask there...
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Maybe the picture composition of the new Forums must be changed. It is so much southern Italy-like.

Your suggestion are very useful.

I would try your tips and I will let you know if all is ok.

MaxIt

I was to the family center owned by LDS churc in Pisa and the man (very kind) showed me the catalog.
Now there is a problem, he don't know how to require microfilms, because he required it by mail and now it is all electronic.
Could you provide me the procedure to request from a Family center the ...

I can ensure you that the surname

Franzè and Franzì are italian, and are present in Italy (in Calabria) since 300 years or more.

Franze can be a variation of Franzè.

I forgot to tell you that Pavolo is the Gizzeria's dialect way to say Paolo.
The name Pascuzzi follows from the fact that in dialect people declinate surnames,
for instance Pascuzzo for a woman become Pascuzza, for a family become Pascuzzi, but in the
civil record it is always Pascuzzo.

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