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Bologna

The strongest concentration of Bologna in US arrival records points to Sicilia, with 136 of 245 arrivals (56 percent) originating there.

245

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

75

Comuni of
origin

17

Regioni
represented

21

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 245
Abruzzo: 17 arrivalsPuglia: 6 arrivalsBasilicata: 34 arrivalsCalabria: 4 arrivalsCampania: 14 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 4 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 2 arrivalsLazio: 10 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 1 arrivalsMarche: 1 arrivalsMolise: 3 arrivalsPiemonte: 6 arrivalsSicilia: 136 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 3 arrivalsToscana: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 2 arrivals

Top regione

Sicilia

136 of 245
56 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 4
4 to 14
14 to 41
41+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

17 regioni represented

  • Sicilia13656%
  • Basilicata3414%
  • Abruzzo177%
  • Campania146%
  • Lazio104%
  • Puglia62%
  • Piemonte62%
  • Calabria42%
  • Emilia-Romagna42%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol31%
  • Molise31%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia21%
  • Veneto21%
  • Toscana10%
  • Marche10%
  • Liguria10%
  • Lombardia10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

Each row is a comune (municipality) where at least one passenger named Bologna was recorded between 1830 and 1912.

Persone notevoli

Notable Bologna on Wikipedia

Varianti grafiche

Spelling variants worth checking

  • The spelling you know may not be the one in the records. For example, a family remembers Mansini, but the records read Mancini.
  • If your spelling does not appear, a close variant in the list below may be the same family.

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Myths About Name Changes at Ellis Island

Names were never changed at the border. The spelling here is the original Italian: Giovinelli in the records, perhaps Jovanelli in the family today.

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Bolognano

1 US arrivals

Bologno

7 US arrivals

Bologni

1 US arrivals

Bologina

1 US arrivals

Bolognin

1 US arrivals

Bolognese

41 US arrivals

Bolognino

12 US arrivals

Bolognini

8 US arrivals

Variants are surfaced from the surname index, not from per-name research. None of these is guaranteed to be the same family as Bologna.

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