If you have Waldensian roots then you might want to check out the website at Finding Your Waldensian Ancestor. Looks like the author(s) did quite a bit of research on the subject as the site is very nicely laid out and is user friendly. There are several areas to explore which include an introduction to […]
Thought this article shared by Bill West of West in New England on Facebook this morning about most popular baby names over the last century was kinda of fun. It’s interesting to note that in 1911 the two most popular first names in the U.S. were John and Mary. In the records I’ve extracted to […]
I found this list of Italian-Jewish Surnames recently and thought I should share it. While some of the surnames are used by people of both Christian and Jewish faith, it will allow someone researching one of these surnames some options. You may also want to look at the website Italian Resources for Jewish Genealogy – […]
Morabito Last name origin & meaning: Italian (Sicily): nickname for a teetotaler, Sicilian murabbitu, from Arabic murābịt ‘hermit’, ‘ascetic’. According to the Genealogy Family Education website, this surname is actually a derivative of the Arabic surname of Murabit meaning hermit. Facebook has a whole group devoted to this surname – Morabito.. more than a name, […]
Our Italian Surnames – By Joseph Guerin Fucilla is available on Google Books. The section from which I linked it to entitled The Evolution of Italian Surnames concentrates primarily on Northern Italian Surnames. There are over 7500 surnames and sources listed throughout the 299 page book which makes it an interesting and most comprehensive read. […]
Behind the Name is a wonderful site which lists several hundred surnames and their meanings. It also may tell your where the surname is derived from. The beauty of this site is that it not only concentrates on Italian surnames but on surnames from several different parts of the world such as Germany, Spain, Greece […]
Italian surnames have changed so much in the past century. Almost everyone I meet has a story about how their surname was changed at Ellis Island upon their ancestor’s entry in to the US. The truth of the matter is that names were not usually changed at Ellis. Manifest lists were complied and written in […]
