Hello, I need some assistance locating

02/07/2015 - 22:28

Hello, I need some assistance locating the town where my maternal grandfather is from. I am adopted so the only information I have is that my birth name is Nanetti. His name was Gregorio Nanetti and he emigrated to Hermosillo, Mexico in the1920's - 30's. Any help would be appreciated.

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The Nanetti name is heavily concentrated in the Emiglia Romagna Region so that would be the are to concentrate. The Family Search and Ancestry web-sites can also be good places to start searching. I would recommend trying to locate where/when he arrived in Mexico and go back from there.

I had a look at a possible connection between the Nanetti surname and Hermosillo in Mexico and I have found a certain Carlos Nanetti, born in Hermosillo in 1854, who was a prominent person there and a member of the Sonora Parliament. There are quite a few members of this family in the area and it may have happened that your ancestor emigrated to Hermosillo because of these family links. If you do a Google search using the words "Carlos Nanetti Hermosillo" you will find quite a few links, most of them in Spanish.