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Subject: Re: Piughi surname ?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 19:34:26 GMT
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> The California Death Records
> (http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi)
> suggest that my gg-grandmother's surname was "Piughi". I inferred
> this because it indicated that the maiden name of her daughter, Maria
> (Ertola) Giampolini, was Piughi. They were from an unknown town in
> Reg. Genova, Pro. Liguria, Italy. I was told by old relatives that
> it was "Bordone", but have no primary sources of evidence to support
> either. The Piughi surname is unknown in our family and various
> searches suggest that NO other Italians have this surname. I know
> that some errors are possible with this database. Could Piughi have
> been truncated or slightly misspelled? Are other variations more
> common?
> Steve Figoni
>
Misspellings and truncations are very common in the California Death
Index.
I searched the death index for "Ertola" and found three males whose
mother's maiden name was PAGLIUGHI and one female who's father's
surname was PAGLIUGHI.
There is a web site which shows the distribution of a surname across
Italy. PAGLIUGHI is most common in Genoa province. The surname PIUGHI
doesn't exist.
http://gens.labo.net/en/cognomi/genera.html?cognome=&t=cognomi-prov
In the phone book, you will find, within Genoa Province, that PAGLIUGHI
is most common in the township of Rezzoaglio. One of the Pagliughi
lives on a street called Via Ertola!
http://elenco.virgilio.it/pb/home/index.html
I didn't find any place in Genoa Province which contained the
letters "bord". You can check yourself at the Virgilio Atlas of Italy.
You can enter as little as two letters, and it will return you a list
of towns in Italy containing those two consecutive letters. Those towns
followed by "(GE)" are in Genoa province.
http://mappe.virgilio.it/mappe/index.html
Regards,
Regina Gualco
Moderator, Family History Research in Northern Italy
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