Who has the last name Alegria?

Question

And where are you from? Are you my mother? I'm kidding about the last question.

Answer 1

Hey Maricely,

I'm your Father, and I am kidding.

The best places to look for people with the same last name for the purpose of Genealogy is Family Search (ancestors), Ellis Island, phone books, zabasearch, and a few others. But the top one is GENFORUM. Go to the main site, plug in your last name and if there is a Forum, read and post with distant cousins (possibly your mother). In the case of Alegria, there are no Forums, so you could start one, then if anyone responded they would be addressing you. Zabasearch had too many to list in the USA, so you would have to select specific states in the US and run the search again.

I looked up the name on Swyrich.com as follows:

Alegria

Origin: Italian

Spelling variations of this family name include: Allegri, Allegro, Allegra, Allegretti, Allegretto, Allegretta, Allegrini, Allegrucci, Allegroni, Allegrani, Allegranza, Allegranzini, Allegrezza, Allegria, Alegri, Alegro and many more.

First found in Florence, originally the capital of Tuscany, then capital of the kingdom of Italy. On the River Arno there are numerous Florentine Churches, Museums, Galleries. It dates back to 313 A.D.

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Francisco Alegre, who settled in Puerto Rico in 1560; Pedro Alegre, who came to Mexico in 1582; Juan Alegre, who settled in Philippines in 1593; Tomas Alegre, who came to Puerto Rico in 1816.

Answer 2

In the USA from 1860 census the surname is enumerated in Cameron and Zapata counties TX as from Mexico, and one in Gila, Arizona, NM - also from Mexico. In 1930, the most recent public census, Alegrias were still coming in from Mexico to AZ.

I have little doubt that immigration from Mexico continued over time. The early focus on border crossing at AZ gives a clue that mexican state Chihuahua's churches is where one might be looking for family baptismal and marriage records.

Answer 3

Swyrich Name Search

Answer 4

aussi c'etait connu par,(en anglais) french morraco