IMPORTANT italy QUESTION please help!!!!!!?

Question

My great-grandfather came over from Italy in 1908. His name was FRANK LAVIGNA. In the town that he came from (Cercepiccola, Campobasso, Molise, Italy) , his name is still registered/recorded as a presently recorded surname. That means that his brothers/sisters who DID NOT come to America may have had children in Italy, which means that we have 3rd or 4th cousins living in Italy! I dont know how to find this out and who IS related to me in this town. Is there any ITALY WHITE PAGES where i can write a letter to a person bearing my last name?

Answer 1

I would try posing a query at the following genealogy boards to see if you might be able to make a connection

http://genforum.genealogy.com/lavigna/
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lavigna/mb.ashx


Here are some already existing trees. Maybe you can find a connection amongst these. The E-mail addresses of the contributors are included with each tree. You can narrow it down by typing in the search terms at the bottowm of the page.

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?surname=Lavigna&given=
You might also want to type Lavigna in the search terms of the following webpage as well.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp

I hope these help. Blessings.

Answer 2

Hi...Try the Italian white pages.....www.paginebianche.it

cognome: surname
città: city
regione: region
provincia: province

Cercepiccola would be a city/town in the province of Campobasso which is in the region of Molise.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Here's a good place to start - http://www.infospace.com/intldb/intldb/pplfindint.htm?QO=IT

I found some of my relatives living in Calabria using this. We met in Rome a few years ago for a visit -

Good luck to you!!