Italian Birth Record

[Zefiro]

this hopefully works

[Mary50]

Hi M4CKA.  I've had a quick look at the birth certificate and it isn't very difficult to translate.  Unfortunately, I can't do it tonight.  Hopefully tomorrow or the next day.

Mary

[Mary50]

Here is the translation. 

The year 1878, on the 16th of March at 9:15 A.M. in the Town Office
of the Comune of Marsicovetere,  appeared Laura Masino, aged 43,
midwife, living in Marsicovetere, who declared that at 5:20 P.M. on
the 15th of the current month in the house at 3 Santa Vanese Street
from Filomena Savino, farmer, unmarried, living in Marsicovetere,
from her relationship with an unmarried man, not related to her,
(sorry, I can’t  figure out the few words after the black smudge)
was born a male child whom  she presented to me and to whom she
gives the name Giuseppe.
To the above were present the witnesses Giuseppe Campiglio, aged 40,
shepherd, and Giuseppe Russo (Ruzzo?) , aged 38, shepherd, who also
live in this Comune.

The declarer has reported the above birth because she assisted at the
birth applying her expertise, and in the place of Savino, who could not
report the birth because she is gravely ill.  This act was read to those
present who did not sign because they are (illiterate?) as they told me.

[Zefiro]

(sorry, I can’t  figure out the few words after the black smudge)

the whole line reads:
non parente ne affine di lei nei gradi che ostano al riconoscimento

It's a kind of standard phrase for legal purpose, I think.
Google translate: neither related nor related to her in the degrees that preclude recognition

[M4CKA]

Thank you so much everybody for your help, Mary50 and Zefiro have kindly translated this for me.

[M4CKA]

Here is the translation. 

The year 1878, on the 16th of March at 9:15 A.M. in the Town Office
of the Comune of Marsicovetere,  appeared Laura Masino, aged 43,
midwife, living in Marsicovetere, who declared that at 5:20 P.M. on
the 15th of the current month in the house at 3 Santa Vanese Street
from Filomena Savino, farmer, unmarried, living in Marsicovetere,
from her relationship with an unmarried man, not related to her,
(sorry, I can’t  figure out the few words after the black smudge)
was born a male child whom  she presented to me and to whom she
gives the name Giuseppe.
To the above were present the witnesses Giuseppe Campiglio, aged 40,
shepherd, and Giuseppe Russo (Ruzzo?) , aged 38, shepherd, who also
live in this Comune.

The declarer has reported the above birth because she assisted at the
birth applying her expertise, and in the place of Savino, who could not
report the birth because she is gravely ill.  This act was read to those
present who did not sign because they are (illiterate?) as they told me.

Thank you so much, this is really interesting. There is a great amount of information here. Hopefully I find his father one day.

[M4CKA]

(sorry, I can’t  figure out the few words after the black smudge)

the whole line reads:
non parente ne affine di lei nei gradi che ostano al riconoscimento

It's a kind of standard phrase for legal purpose, I think.
Google translate: neither related nor related to her in the degrees that preclude recognition

Thank you so much for this, extremely helpful.

[Mary50]

Hi M4CKA,

For some reason I was never notified of your responses.  I would suggest that if you check marriage records after the baby was born, sometimes the couple got married.  In such cases, there should be an annotation where the groom formally declares that the child is his and then there should be a document where his name is changed to the father's last name.  Hope you have success finding the father.

Mary

[M4CKA]

Hi M4CKA,

For some reason I was never notified of your responses.  I would suggest that if you check marriage records after the baby was born, sometimes the couple got married.  In such cases, there should be an annotation where the groom formally declares that the child is his and then there should be a document where his name is changed to the father's last name.  Hope you have success finding the father.

Mary

Hi Mary,

I wasn't notified of your response either, but I've checked all marriage records in Marsicovetere before and after Giuseppe's birth about 10 years both ways and I didn't see Maria Filomena on any of the records which is a shame. I was wondering, could it be possible that Giuseppe Campiglia or Giuseppe Russo (the witnesses on Giuseppe's birth record) could be his father? I'm just confused because Giuseppe's wife, Mary Rose Gasparro, put her uncle as her father on their marriage record in 1900 and Giuseppe put his father as "Giuseppe Savino" and obviously "Giuseppe Savino" is not Giuseppe's father according to his birth record.

But thank you for all your help, I really appreciate it. I might try and ask one of my cousins who are 2 generations above me to take a DNA test and maybe I'll have more luck with matches, although I've never spoken to them in my life so I'm not sure how I'll pull that off.

Joey