POINTers IN PERSON Minutes
Chapter # 10 Central Texas/Austin
Submitted by: Sherry PACELLI Haddox (#4883)
Lin ONOFRIO Brinkman (#1388) opened the monthly meeting with 9 present. She announced the birth of her grandson, Aden Patton Brinkman, who was born on March 30, 2008. Aden is the son of USAF Major Andrew and Dijana Harcovic Brinkman. Lin passed around several pictures of the new baby with his big sister, Emma.
Jeanie MARSALIA (#4251) found out that her grandparents were married on March 1, 1897 in Santa Maria Church in Caselle Torinese, Italy.
She also learned all the names of her grandparents' siblings and their birth dates. She had made copies of birth records several years ago with her family names from various FHC films and was able to match several with this new information.
Jeanie and her son will leave for Italy on May 28th and plan to visit Monastero di Lanzo and Caselle Torinese, the towns where her ancestors lived. They will also visit Torino and the Tuscany area.
Scott Patrick (#4819) mentioned making contact with a third cousin on his Patrick side, thus achieving a goal of finding a distant relative with the Patrick name. Upon discovering the cousin was a Texas native Scott used the civil record indexes for Texas available on Ancestry.com to find a lot more information on this particular line.
Sherry PACELLI Haddox (#4883) reported that she was honored to be able to vote for the first time in the Italian elections since she now has dual citizenship!
The meeting adjourned at 8:00pm. Our next meeting will be May 28th at 6:30 at Merrill Gardens, 8005 Cornerwood Drive in Round Rock, Texas.