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From: "Grace Olivo" <>
Subject: RE: Giuras
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:15:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: <MPG.1ca21409469047289896fe@news.x-privat.org>


Roberto, I forwarded your message to a friend of mine whose ancestral
surname is Giura [no 's']; his family came from the town of Maschito in
Basilicata, and the ancestry is from Albania way back. He's done a great
deal of research. Here's his response to me, hope it helps:

"Trieste suggests a Balkan "George" to me. Giura or Juraj or
various combinations are found throughout the Balkans.

It might be Spanish (spelled in Italian -- ie, from Venice)as of one of
the Jurassic rock forms. (Or it could be Polish "coal", or a variant of

the Jura Swiss/French region. It's likely NOT Scottish Jura, nor
Iranian Jura (again "George")

I suspect that all the giura* in southern Italy, descended from a high
up muckety-muck who immigrated from Albania with George
Iskariot Scanderbeg."

Grace Lancieri Olivo,
Editor, Comunes of Italy Magazine,
OSIA-NJ State Historian
Co-Chair, OSIA CSJ-New Jersey
http://www.ItalianAncestry.com/coi
http://www.ItalianAncestry.com/tito

In article <d17dpg$39e$1@news1.nivel5.cl>, says...
> Hi,
>
> My name is Roberto Giuras and i'm looking for surname Giuras. I'm not
> sure if the surname are italian. :)
>
>
> thanks for any help.
>
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