I am looking for realitives in Italy, last name Straffachia,or Strafface?

Question

My Grand parent is from there and I dont know any more than his parents died and he was adopted by his aunt and uncle, and they are all deceased, I know I must have relitives there....

Answer 1

A search on the Italian Yahoo "ContaCognome" (count your last name) located at <>http://it.paginebianche.yahoo.net/execut... doesn't find any listings for Straffachia or Strafface.

Do you know maybe the region where they were from? If you do, you can search around at http://italy.surnamesbytown.com and see if you can find your name there.

Of course, it's possible that somewhere along the line the spelling was changed, which is what happened with my family. Have you tried looking at the Ellis Island website (http://www.ellisisland.org)? There are a lot of people with a last name of Straface who come from a town called Acri near Cosenza (down in the toe of Italy).

Good luck!!

Answer 2

Try the phone directory for Italy at http://www.paginebianche.it/index.html. Where it says Cognome you write the last name and where it says Dove you write some big cities like Roma, Firenze, Venezia etc.