I hope this is Gaetano's father!!!!

John

The date of this Sebastiana Gargano does not match the age written on Gaetano's birth record. According to Gaetano's birth record, Sebastiana should have been born around 1851. I searched the birth records for Bagheria today from Feb 1850 to Feb 1852 and no Sebastiana Gargano.

Thoughts???

Gaetano's record for reference

I noticed Giovanni last name on the birth record was spelled slightly different, LaBarbiera, I wonder if this is significant???

I can't understand the images: they are too small!
Luca

I'm not good at this yet...better?

[img=http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7361/giovannilabarbieraih0.th.jpg]

Better? Help!

johnlabarbera wrote:

[img=http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7361/giovannilabarbieraih0.th.jpg] Better? Help!

This one is OK. And also the previous.

Giovanni La Barbera, born in Bagheria, 1848, Dec 20, son of Gaetano and Giuseppa Russo.

Baptized on 1848, Dec 21.

Grazie Luca and Livio, I copied the record from the 1843-1845 microfilm, is there ANY chance the birth year could be something other than "48" ???

The baby would have been baptised within days of birth.

johnlabarbera wrote:

Grazie Luca and Livio, I copied the record from the 1843-1845 microfilm, is there ANY chance the birth year could be something other than "48" ???

You are correct it is 1843

thank you!