[PW] trying to locate Santalinta Italy

[wendy miller]

The closest I get after searching many of the same resources you 
mention is a town called Sandigliano which is about 400 miles 
northwest of Rome.  I wonder if  your patron might have a translated 
birth certificate with a misspelling (or Anglicization) of her 
birthplace. Another thought is that Santalinta might be a 
neighborhood or district or street name but not a place name.  Is it 
possible she might bring in the book to show you its reference?

Wendy Miller, Reference/Electronic Services Librarian
Portland Public Library
5 Monument Square
Portland, Maine 04101
www.portlandlibrary.com


At 04:45 PM 8/7/2007, you wrote:
>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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