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From: "Gerry" <>
Subject: R: New to the group... easy (?) questions
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 00:38:07 +0200

For Latin and Old Italian abbreviations, try:

"Dizionario di Abbreviature Latine ed Italiane" di
A. Cappelli Hoepli editore
Ciao.
gerardo

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"Claudio Pedrazzi" <> wrote in message
...
> Hi everybody, I just discovered this newsgroup, and I hope I am not Out of
> Theme!
> I am an Italian working at the moment in Germany, and since two years, out
> of curiosity, I have started researching my origins. Considering that I
> have used only a few days during my vacations, I think I have been quite
> lucky, because I was able to trace all my ancestors up to 1860 (starting
> date of italian "anagrafe"). Now I am tracing back, through churches
> records, only the direct line of people that has my family name
(Pedrazzi).
> As time goes back to 1800 or even 1700, this becomes fascinating!
> I am new at this, and reading the old latin records (handwritten, of
course)
> is very difficult. In particular I would like to ask if there is some
> expert here that can help me understanding an abbreviation that I have
found
> and that baffles me: it resembles a
>
> "Ma" followed by a strange accent in the upper right corner.
>
> The context can be like, for example:
>
> Dominicus Ma' Pauli Pedrazzi
> or
> Dominicus Ma' Crespellani
>
> More generally, has someone here a typical example of what was written in
> the church record (in latin) for a birth, a marriage and a death? and a
> translation (in italian or english)?
> Can someone suggest a good book for this? or a site?
> Finally, does it exist an italian newsgroup about genealogy?
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Claudio Pedrazzi
>
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