11213 Trying to find my Family

What have you tried so far to find your family, Kevin? What area are they from?

Hi Kevin and welcome to the Forum. As David said, you are going to need more data than just the family name to find any relatives in Italy. Apparently there are a few people in Italy who share your family name and they are all over Italy:
[url=http://cognome.alfemminile.com/w/cognomi/cognome-levrone.html]Levrone : il cognome Levrone - alFemminile.com[/url]
Who was born in Italy, your father, your grandfather..... any idea? You can access some websites which will be helpful in tracing your ancestry, but you need more information.

Heres a map of the distribution of your name in Italy: [url=http://www.gens.labo.net/it/cognomi/genera.html?.cognome=LEVRONE&t=cognomi]LEVRONE - L'Italia dei Cognomi[/url]

Looks like they're almost all in Piemonte (Piedmont), in the province of Cuneo. But that's quite a large area, containing many different cities and villages.

[quote=bosco;106145]Heres a map of the distribution of your name in Italy: [url=http://www.gens.labo.net/it/cognomi/genera.html?.cognome=LEVRONE&t=cognomi]LEVRONE - L'Italia dei Cognomi[/url][/quote]

The link didn't reproduce the map of your name as I expected. But just enter Levrone into the box in the top left-hand corner under 'cognome', click the red arrow and it will appear.

I've always found the link provided by Bosco to be very accurate.

PS. Are you [B][I]the[/I][/B] Kevin Levrone? :notworthy:

Just in case anyone is wondering what I'm on about.. check this out.

[ame=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gwlio71V9I]YouTube - Kevin Levrone FullBlown Mirage - Poor[/ame]

I'm sure it is - did you check out the link he gave with his post?

I also found this on the wiki site:

[edit] Biography
Kevin Levrone was born to an Italian father and African American mother.

He is known as a Pro Body Builder, producer, actor, and as the singer of the band FulBlown.

Kevin has 22 professional IFBB wins and holds the best record in pro body building history to date.[citation needed] He's an eight-time world champion, won the Arnold Classic two times ('94 and '96), and came second at the Mr.Olympia four times over the span of a decade ('92, '95, '00 and '02). His losses in '00 and especially '02 were highly disputed.[citation needed] He has not officially announced his retirement from bodybuilding.

Levrone is currently making a career for himself as an actor. His first film was Backlash, following up with Redline and I Am

In this site there is a list of helpful links; however, as I said before, you need to have more information about your ancestors, such as birthplace or at least region to facilitate the search.
[url=http://www.lifeinitaly.com/heritage/genealogy.asp]Italian Genealogy | Italy[/url]

If you check the IMDb as suggested one can see that Kevin Levrone was actually born in Rome so perhaps that is where his family come from. :veryconfused:

Kevin
I have sent you a PM

[quote=Kevin Levrone;106085]I live in America can someone put me in contact with my Family in Italy my websight is [url=http://www.kevinlevrone.net]The Official Site of Kevin Levrone - Actor, Producer, Musician[/url][/quote]

Hi Kevin,
My origins are Italian too and I think an excellent place to look is:
[url=http://www.ellisisland.org/]Ellis Island - FREE Port of New York Passenger Records Search[/url]
It's a site containing the names of all the people who emigrated to the US! You can print the original passenger records of the ships.
I've checked your surname already and it seems that there was possibly a spelling error on the ship documents. Have a look at the variations of your surname anyway! Better still you can seach by year!

Hope this helps

Hi Tinacara,

Good suggestion and we have done this ourselves, but I don't know if it applies to Kevin as he said his father was Italian in his bio.

I spent 4 years amassing documents as we are trying to get dual citizenship. In our case, we started with Ellis Island as my husband's family came over awhile ago. It would be helpful for Kevin to get the long form of his birth certificate which has detailed family information there and then he can trace backwards. He can also check out the Mormon website as they have family history as well, although since it looks like his situation is not the same as immigrants who have been in the States awhile, so I don't know how much information they'll have. [url=http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp]FamilySearch.org - Family History and Genealogy Records[/url]

This site could also be helpful: [url=http://www.ancestry.com/]Ancestry.com -- Browser Upgrade[/url]

In the words of Monty Python
"Spam, spam, spam, spam spam spam, spam spam Spamty spaaam spamyty spam.... spam, spam, spam" etc
Ghianda

I don't get it Ghianda - what are you referring to as spam?

Ghianda is saying (I think) that Kevin Levrones post here is to promote himself/his website only.
I say it doesn't matter even if it is 'cus we learnt something about someone - and that song is pretty cool. :yes:

[quote=Ghianda;106248]In the words of Monty Python
"Spam, spam, spam, spam spam spam, spam spam Spamty spaaam spamyty spam.... spam, spam, spam" etc
Ghianda[/quote]

I thought it was more like,[B]beef cake [/B]then spam.....:laughs::laughs::laughs:

[quote=Lisa C.;106259]I don't get it Ghianda - what are you referring to as spam?[/quote]

It just seemed odd to me that after an initial request for help we haven't heard anything back from the originator. Apols to everyone if i have missed something.
Ghianda
[url=http://www.olivopiegato.com]Tuscany Bed and Breakfast - L'Olivo Piegato, The Crooked Olive[/url]

I thought you might have been referring to that but I think some members don't check in for quite some time, so I guess we'll see what happens.

Thanks for the explanation!:winki: