Have you tried to type in the letters and then paste into google translate first?
I suppose Italian handwriting was not significantly different to English handwriting in 1930s-1950s.
Google Translate is very efficient and should easily provide you with 90% understanding of the letters' content.

Image quality is inadequate and much too blurred.

I asked my Sicilian father, he confirms that "schetto/schetta" in Sicilian dialect refers to a person who has not been married before.

Thanks!

Roberto

Hi there,
frequently I see the abbreviation "sch." following the name of groom and bride in the marriage records. I understand that it must describe the marital status of the person (unmarried, I suppose), since "ved" for vedovo/vedova (widower) is also sometimes observed in other marriages.

But ...

Thanks a lot, Marcello

I am trying hard to read the Italian text of a page in the "Processetti 1741-1746", parish of Sant'Ippolito al Capo, Palermo.

The front page of the folio is here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x2hej8ji2oizemf/Sant%27Ippolito%20al%20Capo%20-%20Processetti%201741-1746%20-%20Image%201208.jpg?dl=0
However ...

It is church marriage act (Latin). Some of the highlights, as I read them:

Date of the act is 8 January 1784. Three mandatory marriage banns on 8, 14 and 21 (?) December 1783.

Groom's name is Giuseppe Alaimo, previously unmarried, son of xxx Alaimo, widower of Agata Rampante (?). Name of the bride ...

btw: Looking again, I don't think the word after "ex" is "mea". To me it looks more like "nra", and with an abbreviation symbol ("9") above the line, I interpret this as "n[ost]ra".
I.e. "ambos ex nostra Parochia".

In order to go further back in time in would be extremely valuable to fully understand the sentence:
" ... ambos ex [?] parochia ".

Does it mean "both out of this parish", or does the " ex " rather implies "both from outside this parish" ?

I suppose the latter is NOT correct, since marriage ...

Thanks a lot, Pippo!

I just realized that I am probably not helping myself by only posting a Familysearch link that requires logon, so here it is for more easy access:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/os9ibinxewnm9 ... 9.jpg?dl=0

Hi,
I am struggling hard with this marriage record from Palermo dated 24 July 1746, Lorenzo Oliveri and Angela Buffa (parish of Sant'Ippolito al Capo), no 101:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9L-47KK-B?cat=559236

I am only able to read more or less accurately:

Anno D[omi]ni ...

Can someone provide information on a detailed map, list, book or similar on the streets and alleys of Palermo, preferably covering 18th and 19th Century topography?

I am looking for some sort of standard tome to be able to locate where exactly my ancestors lived when consulting "Numerazione delle ...

Here Pietro Buffa suddenly appears living together with the Lorenzo Oliveri / Angela Buffa family at the "Numerazione delle anime" in 1765:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9L-3QHY-7?i=1224&cat=559236

He does not live there the year before or after. If he is the father he would have ...