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Re:Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more by w-m on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:10AM (#18967262)
You can find a telephone number of someone named Temperini who is living in Montalcino, by doing a quick search in the Italian telephone book. Surely it wouldn't break any laws just calling there?
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Re:Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more by coldtea on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:30AM (#18967314)
No, it would just make no sense.
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Re:Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more by w-m on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:41AM (#18967358)
Why not? Many people research their ancestry at some point in their lives and the name does not seem to be very common.
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Re:Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more by magduf on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:13AM (#18969308)
You could do this for any historical name. Just pick up a history book, find a random person in there, and then look up people with the same last name: you're bound to find some. Who would cold-call some person who happens to share a last name with some 16th-century person who got a footnote in a history book somewhere? And why does this matter? At what point can we finally say "this person has been dead for ages, and we don't need to worry about protecting their privacy any more"? Do we need to worry about protecting the privacy of people whose corpses were found in Pompeii, who were killed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius almost 2000 years ago, in 79CE? Seriously, this is absurd.
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Re:Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more by coldtea on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @07:10AM (#18967688)
Well, the guy will learn soon enough anyway if they don't already know (whether they're relatives or just share the same name).

Why would it take some people to call them on the other end of the world?

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