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How could you find out if your surname Pontecorvo was of Italian or Jewish origin?
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Surnames need not be one or the other. They can be both, Italian and Jewish at the same time.
From a surname website:
Last name origin & meaning:
Italian and Jewish (from Italy): habitational name from Pontecorvo, a place in Frosinone where a Jewish community was established following the expulsion of Jews from Rome in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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