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People are adding information and they don't seem to be checking their work. Vincenzo Ignazio Maria Capitano born 1843 is not the same as Vincenzo Capitano born 1846. They are brothers. Vincenzo Ignazio Maria was never married to Catherina Ippolito. There is no marriage certificate found of her marrying either brother though she did have children with Vincenzo there is no reported marriage in Sicily. In all marriage certificates the wife to be or is is placed on the certificate. And I have Vincenzo's birth record & death record and NO WIFE. Thank you Jeanette
Capitano | Birth 21 October 1846 | Parents Giuseppe Capitano, Domenica Medulla Spouses Catalina (Catherine) Ippolito |
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Hello @JeanetteRusso-Viera yes it can be frustrating when contributors don't fully research names and / or jump to conclusions. I've found that within families, forenames are handed down through several generations, and that in a relatively small area there are several families with the same name and forenames which can, if one is not careful, lead you down the wrong path. Providing as many sources as possible is the key though many contributors don't seem to bother and the FS system doesn't make the inclusion of sources or explanations an obligation in order to save a detail. My best example of someone jumping to conclusions was the addition of a ship's passenger list Scotland to the States for my grandfather as proof that he immigrated to the States - which he never did but went to the States on several occasions on business.
As @Áine Ní Donnghaile states you can also contact the contributor using the FS internal messaging system - though be aware that replies are not always forthcoming, though this is not systematic and certain FS users become useful contacts.
Happy hunting. Regards
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Italian genealogy definitely has a learning curve, especially those smaller Sicilian towns. I have a branch of my family from Sciacca. I've found the records there tend to be remarkably more accurate and precise than most, with two exceptions: 1) the ages of given in marriage or for parents in birth records are just all over the place; and 2) parents' names on the death records of older adults are unreliable, but that's true everywhere since when it comes time to fill out that form, the one person best able to provide those details is in the worst condition to do it.
In Sciacca, they followed some of the traditional naming rules very strictly. They named the firstborn boy after the paternal grandfather, and the second after the maternal grandfather; and similar for girls with their grandmothers. And if a child died, they reused the name for the next child. Which means after three generations vigorous and successful propagation, we in the future get stuck having to sort out records for 30 first cousins all named Giuseppe Sclafani, The one saving grace — and I really wish every culture did this — is that women always keep their maiden names.
So people working with Italian record really need to take to heart that inconsistencies that often end up just being minor errors or innocuous variations in US records (for example), are usually intentional and significant in Italian records. Like they need to accept that Accursio Guardino and Francesca Geraldi, Accursio Guardino and Filomena Geraldi, and Accursio Guardino and Francesca Guardino going to be three completely different couples, even if they all had a son named Calogero Guardino in the 1850s. different couple. Also those four birth records for Maria DiMino have the same parents' names but different dates are actually four different sisters with the same names.
And when you're working on the family of Francesco d'Aleo and Francesca Marino, FS will suggest like 40 records to review, but they all omit the father's last name, so you have to consciously look at the surname of the child, because there are definitely going to be three or four men named Francesco something who are all married to different women named Francesca Marino.
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