Hi friends. I am looking for the surname 'Caranto' from Italy. Some members left Italy in the early 19th Century to settle in the Philippines.
We have tried several sources, yet very few names come up. Any suggestions?

Do you have any idea from which part of Italy they were from?

Thanks for your quick reply. No, we don't know what area theymay have lived. We did find a few Carantos who departed Naples by boat and came to the U.S., but that is all. I know, it is like finding a needle in a haystack.

One other piece of information re: Caranto Family: The one Caranto who left Naples in 1907 to Boston, was from Messriea, a place in Messora
Lombardia, southwest of Milano. I don't know if he--Giovanni Caranto--belongs to our family.

Family Search Labs has an index of Philippine marriages.

search.labs.familysear...000#p=home

Enter
Caranto in last name
Philippines in location

Unfortunately, there are no images but you might find someone by going through the listings.

Biff

Thanks Biff. We will look that up.

We tried the family search you suggested and came up empty. Most of the names on the list married between 1905-1948, much later than our family. Our family arrived in the early 19th Century and intermarried between 1830-1880 in Pangasinan. There are many descendants still living there but we have no contact with them. Thanks.