[TI] [Fwd: Vallelongas in Termini Imerese]

[Laura Johnson]

There are 94 entries in the Certificate Database for Vallelunga and its 
variations

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Subject: 	Vallelongas in Termini Imerese
Date: 	Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:58:01 +0000
From: 	Mike Maddi <m.maddi at att.net>
To: 	terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org



As some of you are aware, I have a brick wall I've been trying to break 
down involving my great-grandfather, Nunzio Maddi. He was born about 
1845, probably in Mezzojuso, but not necessarily there. The best I can 
find from the LDS records is that he was abandoned as an infant, which 
backs up a story all the Maddi cousins heard as children.

So almost 3 years ago I tested my DNA at Family Tree DNA and put my 
results in a number of public databases, hoping to find a close match, 
but also realizing I might not get one for years, if at all. About two 
months ago, I received an e-mail from someone in the Ancestry.com DNA 
database who matched me on 42 of 43 markers. You can read about what 
this means in a posting I did at 
http://forums.familytreedna.com/showthread.php?tW13

The bottom line is that now, after upgrading to 48 common markers with 
46 matching, there is almost no doubt that my match and I share a common 
paternal line ancestor. The common ancestor, based on the similarity of 
results, lived anywhere from 4 to 11 generations ago, but probably 
closer to four. My match's grandfather came from a small town in 
Calabria, about 200 miles from Mezzojuso. The original name in Italy was 
Vallelonga. There are no phone listings for Vallelonga in Sicily today. 
But there are many for Vallelunga in Trabia and a few in Termini Imerese.

Now someone has brought to my attention that www.familysearch.org has 
people named Vallelonga being born in Termini Imerese in the early 
1800s. I know that the information genealogists put on familysearch.org 
is not always entirely accurate. So my question is:

Does anyone recall seeing the surname Vallelonga in the microfilmed 
records for the early 1800s in Termini Imerese?

Mike Maddi