Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The birth record of my grandfather

This is a scan of my grandfather's birth record.  You will notice the clarity of the handwriting and the easy-to-scan column on the left.  These features are not always found in these records.  His name is given in what we would call directory style.  When translated this document reads :

In the year 1877, on the 18th of February at eleven in the morning at the town hall came before me, Salvatore Siguarino, Mayor, an official of the state in the town of Polizzi Generosa, Giacomo Russo Alesi, age 32, a peasant living in Calirri who has declared to me that at the hour of four in the morning on the 16th of the current month, Santa Gianfisco, his wife with whom he is living gave birth to a baby boy, who was presented to me and was named Calogero.

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