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Italian Immigrants

Many recent Italian immigrants with the Fonda surname have been included in the American Fonda database... first to differentiate from the original Dutch-American line... then as a separate project to try and establish some descendancy lines.…

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Italian Roots

Genoa, Italy Extract from "Early American Families", Rev. W.A. Williams; Philadelphia, PA; 1916: "The Rensselaer-Bowier Papers say that Douw Fonda was a Frisian, and Tacitus says that the Frisians dwelt along the coast of the North…

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