Can anyone help translate a document in Italian? (search, structure, history)

[creepy]

Hi, I a half Sicilian and half Czech, looking at birth records in Italy and having trouble translating one.

Let me know if you can help and I can send the link.

It is on the family search.org site.
Thank you.

[daliowa]

Try the Italian Genealogy site. ItalianGenealogy.com - Index page

See this section of the above site:
"Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Having problems with the Italian language? Do you need help to translate or understand an old family document? There is always someone who can help you!"

[lilyflower3191981]

I suppose you can just use google translation. Fast and easy.

[PA2UK]

Are you having trouble reading handwriting or do you know the Italian words and need an actual translation of them?

This should help you decipher Italian script writing: https://script.byu.edu/Pages/Italian/en/history.aspx

Once you've figured out the Italian words, it should be fairly easy to copy and paste into google translation, as suggested. It's not always the best translation, grammatically, but it will give you the gist of what the document says.

[RRANGEL09]

I might be able to if you post it.....I have been researching my Italian family for a couple of years now, and have experience translating docs.

[creepy]

Hi All, thanks for the tips. It is an image file not a text file and so that is part of the issue. Anther issue if you are familiar with languages is often translators do not help because they translate awkwardly, not like a human and you lose 20% of the meaaing (if your lucky only 20%)

Thank you RRangelo 09 I will email you thru City Data.

[creepy]

Here is an example of part of a document translated by an on-line translator so you see how useless they can be for blocks of text. They are sometimes good for individual words.

"milleottocentonovantasei wind in August the house communale. To Comm. Guiseppe Limeones asses duly approved the Uffle Civite were the cities of Messina, Reference received from Tll Mr. procured king of Roe, in a note of the August current a cofria of judgment from this Court on the day 13 August said with which i sort of correct the act of birth of Vinci

[PA2UK]

Hmm, I've never had a translation that bad before. I would be sure to spell out any words that might be abbreviated and be double sure you have all letters and words correct. Sometimes old script can have letters not in use anymore or letters that look like other letters. Getting one letter (and therefore one word) wrong can totally change the sentence structure and screw up the translation. That's why I posted the link to the tutorial on how to decipher old Italian script.