[PW] trying to locate Santalinta Italy

[Brian Whatcott]

What he said.
But, reaching - not Italy, and not Sant'alinta...here's a picture of 
Serra Linta

<http://wikimapia.org/2091835/it/Capanne_e_Sacche_Prenuragiche_di_Serra_Linta>

Brian Whatcott

At 05:53 PM 8/7/2007, you wrote:
>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


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!