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George- good job on getting family tother! I have memories of family reunions as a child and wish we still got together like that! Bob, I really enjoy listening to the experiences of your guests. Do you accept suggestions for future guests?

My mom was also a sick baby that couldnt sit up before 16 months. Catholic Charities in southern Italy, 1955

Hi Bob! Im excited to find your channel. My mom was bornin Ceglie Messapica #Puglia and adopted. I'd love to collaborate - here's the first half of a documentary kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3ablmNvoKmfnaMsi=DKDCVW-8KTHR1Enr reunion.

Very interesting.

What is the easiest way to find Italian military records? I have tried to find records of my great grandfather in Italy and can only find his birth record from 1889 Montemarano and marriage certificate from May of 1909 in Castelfranci, both cities near each other in Avellino. I don't know who raised him or if he was in an orphanage. He was a foundling and his parents are listed as "Ignato and Ignata" (unknown) I have a picture of him wearing his Italian Infantry Uniform. He was handed to a wet nurse as a baby, and she brought him to the Montemarano Office to record his birth. In Italy he was named Pomponio Adama in Montemarano. On his immigration manifest from Naples, his name was the same on the steamship, "Taormina" in 1914 with his wife Rosina Naccarelli. In America, he switched his first and last name. In America, he was known as Adama Pomponio, later changed to Tony Pomponi or Anthony Pomponi. They settled in Norristown, PA and later Bridgeport, PA. Omg. Any assistance would be soooo appreciated!

same here

My mom, aunt, sister and brother in law went to Italy and met 'the cousins' from two different families, in Piemonte. They had a great time and we are continuing the connections. Mom is especially excited and regularly communicates almost every day with some of them. She sent presents to them and notes to thank them for their hospitality and assistance. I think with us the beginning of all of this was a letter in Italian I sent to the patriarch of the family. He responded in Italian with a letter to me. It also helped that after that only a few years ago we attended a family reunion in Illinois and one of the cousins and his wife were visiting so we all got connected there as well. And my mom got to reconnect with American cousins she had not seen or talked to in years. The cousin from Italy had a huge pedigree chart and he asked me, "So where are you?" and pointed to the chart. So I showed him and I talked to him in Italian. I told him that I sent a letter to his dad. He asked me when did I sent it. I asked him how would I say "Maybe March or April" -- "Magari" or "Forse"? He answered "Probabilmente." I thought that was kind of funny. So I said, "Probabilmente marzo or aprile." I would have loved to have had more time to talk to him. But there were tons of other American cousins there who wanted to talk to him and he needed to talk to them. So I limited my time to do that. I really envied my mom's cousins at that house where our Italian cousin and his wife were staying. I can imagine the wonderful conversations they were having after the crowds of people were gone and they were having coffee or drinks. I would have had a million questions. "Per esempio" .... "When you want to say "you guys" over there do you say "Ragazzi...?" And of course about the food. My family when they were there they attended an event where they had bagna cauda with a whole bunch of people from the town not just our cousins. They also had a meal with the cousins where they had cuts of meat which they dipped in little fondue pots of hot oil. They also had polenta and so now Mom wants to make polenta and bagna cauda. Which she had bagna cauda when she was a kid herself. I think it also helped that I have learned some Italian and could connect them with one of our cousins over there. I sent him an email that they were going to be there and while they were there I sent emails back and forth between them so they could meet with him. And he took them in his car to a church and he told them stories about his childhood, etc. It's interesting also that I know [from the documents I've found] that he is related to the other cousins but they do NOT know each other or know about those connections. My great great grandparents were first cousins who married and it stems from that connection. So I'm not sure if maybe they just don't talk about it. Although I did tell the one cousin about it and I told him about the other cousins and he didn't seem to have any problem with it. So I guess it would be okay to get them connected. They live very close to each other so it would not be difficult for them to get to know each other. I was somewhat surprised that they were not aware of that. I just figured that all of them have seen the parish records in Latin in the churches and know even much further back than I know. I can only back to 1823 in documents online. I presumed that they know all the way back to maybe the 1500s. Maybe they don't? Or maybe they don't have much of an interest in that? Like I said. I would have tons of questions and it would be great to practice my Italian and learn how to pronounce more properly. I think my hardest thing in reference to learning is where to stress the accent. Except for the present tense of the "loro" form of the verb. That one I get. But mostly some nouns -- where the stressed accent is sometimes surprises me. This was a really great conversation between you two and some good points were made. Thanks for allowing us to sit in and listen.

My family is from Guardia dei Lombardi too. We have a few historians in our family!

I've done a much smaller project abstracting all records for Cerasuolo. A labor of love. cerasuolo-italy.blogspot.com/

It would be good if you could tell how to go to 1500. Because 1800 is just the beginning of the research.

My father is a direct decedent of daniel boone.

Bill dd you mention how your search brought you from Sallurday to Saturday to Sabato ( the Italiano word for Saturday)? An awesome discovery. We too had name issues, and also had dates that were always passed down through the family, but turned out to absolutely be wrong. I wish that I could call my now deceased dad on my cellphone to tell him what I have discovered.

As you mentioned when I first started seaching Antenati, I was going page by page through the entire volume. When I discovered that many books had a written index at the end of the volume, it was like a magic moment. On our first trip to our ancestral hometown, I posted on their Facebook page, that I would love to meet up with people in their piazza. We arranged to meet up for a cafe or vino. About a dozen people showed up. They have become like cugini (cousins).

Very Cool Bill. After searching for years, I finally struck gold. Since then we have made a couple of trips to my nonno's home town. Next up my nonna's home town, who was from Salerno.

Thanks for having me on Bob. I hope this helps your viewers.

I have taken the plunge to learn Italian. I am in Unit 11 of a total of 14 units of a Beginner's Course. Some of my family recently went to Italy and met with some of our cousins there. So now we are communicating back and forth. I have found all the way back to one sixth great grandfather [in Valperga, Torino, Piemonte, Italy] and even some fifth great grandparents in several comuni and also in the City of Torino. I have done Word reports for all of the birth, marriage and death records of Prascorsano, Torino, Piemonte, Italy from 1823 through 1850. At the very least they have all of the names of babies born, married couples and deceased persons. And if any of them mention any of my family surnames I have extra information including exact transcripts. I DO have the original Latin but I also created a version in Italian for those. This interview has given me the idea of subscribing to the page for Prascorsano. By the way I found out NOBODY over there calls the major city "TURIN." They all call it "TORINO." I specifically asked my family members about that. Also by the way the only reason I have only done up to 1850 is because the microfilms [Family Search] for Prascorsano for 1851 are not complete. The parish books were filmed with the book open and including both the right page and left page from 1823 through 1850. For 1851 the film includes the entire left page but the film on the right page stops on the middle of the right page. So all of the right pages for 1851 are cut in half. So it is a slow process of first creating a template of the form. Then trying to fill in the parts that are missing. For example the missing section for a birth record might have the name of the baby's father but his signature may be visible on the left hand side of the page. And very often it would say after his signature, "Padre del neonato" or "Padre della neonata" Even explaining that he did not sign his name because he was illiterate and signed with a "Crocesegnato."....Basically an "X."

This was great! I've made a similar master list of bookmarks to all the records for Bisceglie, Puglia, that are available on Antenati and FamilySearch. It took a while, but it has definitely paid off because now I can get to the records I need in a flash.

While I am listening I went into Steve Morse, I had bookmarked the site. No luck. Can't find when my ggf came to the country. My only information comes from a census column in 1910 or '20. So how accurate was that?

Thanks for having Lou, he’s a great representative of the Italians of Hershey.

Thank you for having Lou Paioletti as a guest on your podcast, he is a well-informed and wonderful ambassador for our Town's Italian community.

Gangemi family. Xenia St. God bless.

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La Mia famiglia ❤

I read her book!

I love this story I want to hear more. I boat in the harbor all the time and I think this is the most interesting story of the harbor islands. I like to imagine what it must have been like for those PoW’s… if you were an Italian soldier in WW2 that had to be a pretty damn lucky outcome.

Love this conversation of reconnecting the roots! I have never been to region of Calabria but have visit Italy multiple times as I have heritage in Lazio.

I plan on contacting John , and maybe someday I will have a good story for you report on 👍

Thanks for this very interesting and informative interview !

Thank you, from Seattle-USA. I grew up in a Calabrian speaking home here in Seattle, having been raised by my grandparents who did not speak English. They, and my father came to the United States from a small village called Celico, just up the hill from Cosenza. Like many, my grandfather came to the US in March 1939. My grandmother and father followed in November 1947 after the war. My dad was only 9 months old when my grandfather left Italy, and nearly 10 years old when he saw his father again, probably for the first time with any recollection. So here I am, going about life with this 'Calabrian Consciousness', in a modern society I don't understand, approaching everything as if I were right out of the middle ages. My wife and I have been to Calabria, and my home town twice in recent years, once to participate in the Feast of St. Michael. It was wonderful seeing people I had not seen since I was like 8 years old. I would carry around with me my family photos and my family tree, and for three days straight in Celico, I did not have a moment to rest. People just came out of the wood work. Have some of the greatest stories, some comical, some enduring. On our first trip, we just happened to be in Celico on the anniversary of my grandparents wedding, but they are long past. There was a wedding there at St. Michael's, and my wife picked up all this confetti with pretty ribbons from the wedding celebration. We took that back home and used it in wrapping our wedding notes that were handed out when we got married. So many stories like this... We love the south, and have traveled extensively through Basicata, Sicily and Puglia for folks from the States. I would love to live there in Calabria, it just feels so enveloping.

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Great to meet and speak with everyone Let’s stay connected Calabria style !

The Deuel carried marines onto Iwo Jima. One of those marines was the indomitable Jack Lucas. Lucas joined the marines at 14, then stowed away on the Deuel because he wanted to go kill Japs. He was awarded the MOH for his actions on Iwo.

I’m Italian on my father side, my mother was American, so I’m medium complexion, but my brother is pretty dark, black hair, dark eyes and olive complexion so he gets taken for either Italian or Hispanic. Italians and Hispanics do have a shared Latin ancestry, I think that’s why sometimes it’s hard to tell. Some Hispanics look Italian, some Italians look Hispanic. Portuguese is also Latin and even though the language is different Greek isn’t too far off.

Amazing story!

Pat Benincasa may be my cousin. My grandfather Mazza is from Mangone. We have Benincasas in our family.

My father's parents were born in Calascibetta. My mother's parents are from Enna. Mantegna/LoPresto

why do you accept that Columbus Day has been disrespected and downgraded? Why do Italian Americans give up so easily?

I have back to all 16 of my great great grandparents. Four of those are Italian and I have found documents of their parents -- so all 8 of my Italian great great great grandparents. My biggest brick wall is my direct paternal ancestry. I have my great great grandfather who is a Jernigan but I don't know the name of his father or that family. But Y-chromosome testing proves that I am 100% [as was my father who is now deceased] what is known as Chandler Y-chromosome Group 7A which includes those men who are in direct lineage from John Chandler the Emigrant who arrived to the Virginia colonies about 1609/10 on the ship, "Hercules." I have other known British ancestors including Southcombes from Devonshire. I also believe I do have Jernigan ancestry because of the matches in Autosomal DNA [Ancestry DNA]. I have wondered if our Jernigan ancestry goes back to the noble Jernegan/Jerningham families of Suffolk and Norfolk. Not enough evidence has survived to arrive at that conclusion. I have a new in color edition of Joseph Foster's book of arms and there is one entry which intrigues me it is "Jernegan FitzHugh of Tanfelde." And doing a bit of research makes me wonder if "Jernegan" was a Breton knight with Count Alan of Brittany [who per Domesday Book had that among his properties]. And perhaps Alan gave him that property or sold it to him. Eventually a Jernegan gave it to his daughter and her Marmion husband. "Jernegan" to me sounds like it could have originally been a surname from France and could even be pronounced with a French accent. The origin most often given in the past was that the original "Jernegan" was a Dane of royal heritage who came to England long before the Normans. I haven't found any historical evidence [even circumstantial] to support that conclusion.

(((Hollywood))) perpetuated the Italian organised crime stereotype as it took the attention away from their organised crime links.

Im stuck...its so frustrating because Im an adoptee. I know my family name, but its rough when so many with the same name. Btw, I have Cavalieri in my family. Ha!!!

There is a channel out there called HowtoItaly-2004. The channel is owned by an Italian guy who has a PHD and is particularly interested in the Italian diaspora here in the US. I have a hunch he'd be interestes in participating in a panel with y'all. I'd certainly be fascinated to see it if it were to happen.

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My mother's aunt drove to California in the '20s. She was a teacher in Riverside for many years. Non-Italian side of the family.

I have a good friend named Toso.. Venetian glass blowing family..claims that 80% of Italians have Jewish roots

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Looking forward to this.

Interesting information my adoptive parents victim of warfare thanks to ancestry not Hungarian.

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