Thank you. It was kind of a good news/bad news letter. My father's application was accepted and recorded in his commune in Favara - he is now an Italian citizen (yeah!) But all of his subsequent documents (his marriage, my birth, etc) use his anglicized name. I had thought this wouldn't need to be ...

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Can someone help me translate the following from the NYC consulate regarding my father's marriage certificate?

Si restituisce il suo certificato di matrimonio in quanto i nome risultano essere errati:

- dal certiciate do nascita Lei si chiam IGNAZIO e invece sl matrimonio e' scritto IGNATIUS ...

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Thank you so much Biff and Valerie!!!! My father who is now 81 (another Ignazio) didn't know that his father came over to Pittson, PA - although he's always known he had cousins in Pennsylvania... My 1930, Girolamo had married Maria Maddalena Vella (who came here in 1920 with her ...

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Expert help greatly appreciated! I'm looking to find a record of my great-grandfather's emmigration from Sicily to NYC. He was born in Favara around the 1870-1880's. My grandfather Girolamo came here in 1919 on the SS Belvedere. His mother (Ignazio's wife) Francesca Grano came here in ...

What did you give to the comune that was OK for authorization? I wrote directly - I didn't know they needed something for privacy release....

Grazie!!!!!

I hope these documents are readable - they're in fragile condition so scanning was problematic. I believe they say something about the fact that my grandfather is not married. He came to the US as a stowaway on the Belvedere in 1919, and then escaped from Ellis Island Hospital. I think he got these ...