D'Alesandro - Bono - Alessi

[vj]

Valerie,
Please excuse the length of this post.
Let us know if it doesn't answer your questions about Family History Centers.
Valarie
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Your nearest Family History Center can order civil records for your comunes on microfilm.
The cost is about $5.50 mo (rent), you’ll need to go to the center to order & view them.

Topic:
Italy, Avellino, Montella - Civil registration

Title: Registri dello stato civile di Montella (Avellino), 1809-1910 Montella (Avellino).
Ufficio dello stato civile

Film notes for Montella:
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library ... ++di++Mont
&columns=*,0,0
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Topic:
Italy, Reggio di Calabria, Ferruzzano - Civil registration

Title:
Registri dello stato civile di Ferruzzano (Reggio di Calabria), 1809-1910 Ferruzzano (Reggio di Calabria).
Ufficio dello stato civile

Film notes for Ferruzzano:
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library ... ++di++Ferr &columns=*,0,0

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In case you aren’t familiar with the Family History Center & Italian records

FamilySearch Home Page
Includes how to find your nearest local Family History Center
You may want to call first to verify the hours they're open.
Most centers are staffed with very helpful volunteers.

A helpful essay written by Trish, one of our forum members:
Steps for Finding Microfilm at the Family History Center

Family History Library Catalog:
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library ... t_fhlc.asp
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Italian Record Research from FamilySearch guides:
Italy Research Outline
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Also from FamilySearch (PDF format)
Italian Records Extraction - An Instructional Guide
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Three books that may help you to find, read & understand your records:

Italian Genealogical Records
How to Use Italian Civil, Ecclesiastical, &
Other Records in Family History Research
By Tafford R Cole
google book link

A Genealogist’s Guide to
Discovering Your Italian Ancestors
How to find and record your unique heritage
By Lynn Nelson
google book link

Finding Italian Roots
By John Philip Colletta, PhD
google book link

[vj]

BONO

If you want to confirm Francesco Bono's town of birth, you could write to Ferruzzano (no charge) for his birth record.

Italian form letter generator with instructions:
http://www.circolocalabrese.org/resourc ... civile.asp

Or other helpful form letters:
http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/pearlsofwi ... tters.html

Address:

Comune di Ferruzzano
Ufficio dello Stato Civile
Via Umberto I
89030 Ferruzzano RC
ITALY

http://www.tuttitalia.it/calabria/92-ferruzzano/
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Website for finding comune addresses:
http://www.nonsolocap.it/

[vmdavis52]

Thank you. All this information is helpful.
I'll follow up as you suggested.
My Best,
Valerie

[Bette]

You may find looking at the Rochester NY City Directories interesting; currently available up to 1930. Here is the decade list.

http://www3.libraryweb.org/lh.aspx?id=1105

Names found: Alessi, Ollis, Olles

[vmdavis52]

Thank You! I also found my maternal grandfather on there, too.

This is a very helpful group. I'm glad I stumbled onto this forum~

Valerie

[millindy1]

My great grandmother is a Rosa Fierro of Montella Italy. Married Enrico Boccuti. I believe she had red hair and rumor has it that she was adopted. Born around 1883 and died in Ohio. Please let me know if this is possibly a match. Millinda

[vmdavis52]

my great grandmother married Elia Fierro, lived in Armstrong PA, had many children (I want to say 14, possibly more, some died soon after birth). Sorry, not the same person. There is a Fierro Montella Facebook group but I think I'm in it because of DNA results. It's a huge group, all have ancestry or equivalent pedigrees.