From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Aug 12 22:05:26 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7D45Qjb020226; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:05:26 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7D45MQN005364 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:05:22 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7D1PrFI003929 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:25:53 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7D1PrMn003928 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:25:53 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7D0cgFI003788 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:38:42 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7D3I1NQ020015 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:18:01 -0600 X-Envelope-From: messenga@infionline.net Sat Aug 12 21:18:01 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7D3I1jb020006 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:18:01 -0600 Received: from elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.67]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7D3HtKY023127 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:17:56 -0600 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=infionline.net; b=o5OelMgOESC06diFnXjZOg257I4pFj9/bVMCJLWb6iZTFqZHeD9qKWwupVKAfeZy; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from 168-103-78-42.hlrn.qwest.net ([168.103.78.42] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GC6U4-00037C-2a for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:17:52 -0400 Message-ID: <44DE99D2.8020009@infionline.net> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:17:38 -0600 From: Anne Messenger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Pen Pal from 50 Years Ago References: <44DE61E9.5070701@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <44DE61E9.5070701@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: a478448580d4830d40ea0adc697db4f96818e31467099fbab718601b012e45d3e9547c531675d88d350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 168.103.78.42 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com There's a white pages directory for Italy at http://www.paginebianche.it/index.html -- in the form on that page, filling in Ghibaudi for the Cognome (last name) and Metello for the Nome (first name) results in two hits in Torino (Turin). One appears to be a business and the other a residence, but I'm not sure because I don't speak Italian. Also there are also a number of listings for just the last name Ghibaudi; if your friend remembers anyone else from his family, one of them might be listed. Anne Barbara Green wrote: > A friend of mine would like to get in touch with a man who was her pen > pal 50 years ago. She lives in the US and he lived in Italy. She did > meet him and stay with his family in 1957 when she was on a bicycle > tour of Europe. She asked me if I knew of anyway to locate him and > the only thing I could think of was to ask the people on Rootsweb if > they knew a way to go about it. This man's name is Metello Ghibaudi, > he was 17 at that time, and lived in Turin. His family had a summer > home in a little town about an hour outside of Turin and they took her > there. The name of the town is Regina Margarhitta. If anyone has any > ideas she would appreciate it. > > > >