Colosimo Family History
- Colosimo Name Meaning
- Southern Italian: of uncertain derivation; possibly from a medieval Greek personal name Kalosimos, composed of the elements kalos ‘beautiful’ + simos meaning either ‘lame’ or ‘snub-nosed’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 14,828 Historical Documents with Colosimo on Ancestry
- 5,868 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,751 Census and Voter Lists
- 973 Military Records
- 1,706 Immigration Records
- 3,530 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Colosimo census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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