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Similarly, both before and after unification (e.g., from the earliest to the latest times that records were kept in the town or city where you are conducting your research), you might still be able to learn the parentage of an abandoned child from other extant records. For example, when a young man would register for military service or exemption therefrom (at 21 years of age), the entry for him in the Lista di Leva (available at the Archivio di Stato for the province where the town of birth is located) might possibly reveal his parentage. | Similarly, both before and after unification (e.g., from the earliest to the latest times that records were kept in the town or city where you are conducting your research), you might still be able to learn the parentage of an abandoned child from other extant records. For example, when a young man would register for military service or exemption therefrom (at 21 years of age), the entry for him in the Lista di Leva (available at the Archivio di Stato for the province where the town of birth is located) might possibly reveal his parentage. | ||
Similarly, other records should be consulted, such as notarial records (notarii), and tax assessment and census records (catasti or estimi catastali). As to the notarial records, be cautious not to interpret the title "bastardelli notarili" (illegitimate notary records) to refer to records pertaining to illegitimate children. Such records merely constitute a chronological list of the atti (acts) prepared by a notary as a sort of index or set of abstracts he kept of his own work for his own reference, considered and titled "illegitimate" only because they did not constitute legal documents themselves.<br> | Similarly, other records should be consulted, such as notarial records (notarii), and tax assessment and census records (catasti or estimi catastali). As to the notarial records, be cautious not to interpret the title "bastardelli notarili" (illegitimate notary records) to refer to records pertaining to illegitimate children. Such records merely constitute a chronological list of the atti (acts) prepared by a notary as a sort of index or set of abstracts he kept of his own work for his own reference, considered and titled "illegitimate" only because they did not constitute legal documents themselves. | ||
'''3. An example of finding a record of birth, baptism, and abandonment and further avenues of research''' | |||
Luigi Damozonio died at 70 years of age in San Francisco, California in 1913. The local duplicate original of his 1874 civil record of marriage is located in the civil records office of the village of Ferriere in the community of Lumarzo, Genova, Italy. A duplicate original of that same record of marriage, in different handwriting, is housed in the Archivio di Stato in Genova. Both records agree: the civil marriage occurred on 17 September 1874 in Ferriere. His record of marriage states that he was born 4 January 1843, the "son of unknown" ["figlio di ignoti"]. | |||
No record of his birth appears in Tasso or Lumarzo or any of the surrounding parishes and his surname is unique to the area: he is the only person in the area who bore the surname and the appearance of his name in the Lumarzo marriage records is the first mention of him or of anyone with his surname in the area. | |||
Research concerning his surname confirmed that the surname was not used by any other person in Lumarzo or the surrounding parishes. The surname is not mentioned in Ettore Rossoni, "Origine e Storia dei Cognomi Italiani" (see unnumbered page 897), available at https://archive.org/details/OrigineEStoriaDeiCognomiItaliani. And it is not included in the online surname database for Liguria (https://italia.indettaglio.it/eng/cognomi/cognomi_liguria.html). | |||
Detailed research on the word "damosonio" strongly suggested that it was a word from the vegetable kingdom (as explained earlier), being the word "Damazonio," "Damasonio," "Damozonio," or "Damosonio," a word derived from the Latin word "Damasonium," a genus of six species of flowering plants in the family Alismataceae, commonly known as starfruit. (See "Damasonium," a Wikipedia article found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damasonium.) | |||
While one source from the early 19th century seemed to attribute to the star fruit positive antitoxin effects, modern sources suggest the opposite. The Dizionario Classico di Medicina Interna ed Esterna, Prima Traduzione Italiana, Tomo 9 (Venizia: Giuseppe Antonelli Editore, 1833) [Classical Dictionary of Internal and External Medicine, First Italian Translation, Volume 9 (Venice: Ed. Giuseppe Antonelli, 1833)], page 49 [available at https://bit.ly/3qhTqIy] sets forth the following entry: "DAMASONIO, s. m. ed add. damasonium, da δαμαξω [damaxo], domo, supero; rimedio ch leva la forza ai veleni, nè li lascia operare." ["DAMASONIUS, masculine noun and adjective damasonium, from δαμαξω [damaxo], domo, supero; a remedy which takes the power out of poisons, does not let them function."] | |||
The National Library of Medicine on the other hand reports for star fruit "simultaneous neurotoxic and nephrotoxic effects in people with previously normal renal function." (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4421323/; see also https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6977387/.) | |||
Regardless of the true meaning of the word, it very likely was used as a surname for Luigi because of its origin in the vegetable kingdom. | |||
The 1874 volume of publication of banns for Lumarzo notes that "lo sposo Daimozonio Luigi mi ha presentato lo estratto di sua nascita rilasciuto dal signor contabile dell'ospedale grande di Genova il Ricchini, dal quale conta che esso e nato il quattro del mese di Gennaio dell'anno mille ottocento quarantatre . . . ." ["the husband Daimozonio Luigi presented me the extract of his [record of] birth released by the accountant of the large hospital of Genova Ricchini, from which he counts that he [Luigi] was born on the fourth of January in the year one thousand eight hundred forty-three . . . ."] (See https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GP4N-H6V (No. 31, recto page, 29 Aug 1874 [image 178 of 334] and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9P4N-C99 (No. 31, verso page, 29 Aug 1874 [179 of 334].) | |||
Research into the identity of the parish responsible for baptisms of children abandoned at the Ospedale di Pammatone in Genoa revealed that is was the Parish of Santo Stefano, located 400 meters away from where the hospital was located. (See https://goo.gl/maps/ECzeUmmJbNziAnPV6; see also http://himetop.wikidot.com/ospedale-pammatone-s-remains.) | |||
Correspondence with Santo Stefano produced a copy of the 29 February 1843 record of the 4 January 1843 record of birth: | |||
From that point, correspondence with persons in America who descend from Luigi together with sophisticated and extensive examination of DNA test results may lead to identification of the blood ancestors of Luigi. His record of birth and baptism indicates he was abandoned "nel distretto di questa Parrocchia" ["within the confines of this parish"] (namely at the hospital) and therefore may have been born to an unmarried female from anywhere within the province of Genoa.<br> | |||
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