From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Aug 13 07:55:41 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 k7DDtfjb032589; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 07:55:41 -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 k7DDtblh025495 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 07:55:37 -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 k7DBFxFI021718 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 07:15:59 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7DBFxvx021717 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 07:15:59 -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 k7D6LNFI004446 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:21:23 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7D90iLV003812 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:00:44 -0600 X-Envelope-From: martinfamilytree@gmail.com Sun Aug 13 03:00:44 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 k7D90ijb003803 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:00:44 -0600 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7D90cV9026160 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:00:38 -0600 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so966717pyd for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:00:39 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fbW2bywguvKCB+2/XHwyy55G98rJs0vEcPD9x04m3SggcEbyl7AAN9r2dw/Nj4C+iJHKBEd2dGzznT0d9qX2TO1jgPiv+cKr4y4QHYowx3SC0etq9md+KuCPjvUSq2ToIDtKo6/SYUA5GWcMx+BIc/ei4YQGfPMhkHwuepIspRs= Received: by 10.35.121.2 with SMTP id y2mr10457926pym; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.93.6 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:00:38 -0500 From: "ctm 007" To: "Anne Messenger" Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Pen Pal from 50 Years Ago Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <44DE99D2.8020009@infionline.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44DE61E9.5070701@earthlink.net> <44DE99D2.8020009@infionline.net> 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 Hi Barbara, Hi Anne, Use this website http://searchenginez.com/translate_websites.html to convert Italian to English. Carl On 8/12/06, Anne Messenger wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > > > >