[PW] trying to locate Santalinta Italy

[John P. Dyson]

A look at the town's name on the certificate in question by someone 
other than the first party may be in order. The lack of a saint by such 
a name hints at the potential benefit of a different copyist.

John Dyson
Spanish and Portugese
Indiana University


Quoting Lynne Welch <welchly at oplin.org>:

> Help please!
>
> We are trying to find information on a place in Italy - supposedly near
> Rome - by the name of SANTALINTA (presumed all one word).
>
> The person inquiring says that her birth certificate shows that she was
> born there, and she further states that she has a book on Italy,
> published in 2001, which references the town. She is trying to set up a
> tour and would like to visit her birthplace.
>
> I can find no information using either Santalinta or Sant' Alinta (which
> was suggested by a colleague using www.multimap.com, but I could not
> replicate his search) and hope you might be able to help? Have tried
> (with the assistance of colleagues on LIBREF-L) the Columbia Lippincott
> Gazetteer, several internet search engines (including Google, Yahoo, and
> AllTheWeb.com), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's database
> of foreign place names, the Times Index-Gazetteer, and mapquest.com,
> using variant spellings.
>
> Thanks,
> Lynne Welch
>
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