POINTers IN PERSON Minutes
Chapter # 10 Central Texas/Austin
Submitted by: Lin ONOFRIO Brinkman (#1388)
Lin ONOFRIO Brinkman (#1388) opened the meeting at the Griffith Round Rock Public Library with 12 present.
She and her family will be going to Connecticut in September for a cousins' reunion. She is putting together photos from the 1930s and 1940s for the
reunion.
Lin reminded everyone of the garage sale on Oct. 8, to raise funds for meeting space for next year.
Lin mentioned an email from David Cooney of San Antonio, asking if anyone is working on the CUNEO family name from Coreglia Liguire, South of Genoa.
Ursula PASSAFUME Rader (#4467) sent NATF form #81 to the Natiional Archives for copies of Ship Passenger Arrival Records with variations of spellings for
Grandparents Rosolino and Rosolia PASSAFUME, requesting arrival records either for the Port of New Orleans, Lousiana, or for Texas. She also included the
information she had obtained from the 1900 Census which gave "Citizen # 188713" and "Al" after the number and on the 1910 Census records which said they
immigrated in 1885 and had "Pa" after the date.The Archives said they were unable to locate the passenger in New Orleans. Her next request will be to the
local Post Offices in Louisiana or Texas to obtain Alien Registratiion files. Ursula would appreciate suggestions on what to try next.
She recieved Baptismal records from Galveston, TX for her Father's three brothers who were in the Houston Diocese in the 1890s, but not the record for
her Father. She also found old death notices in the HOUSTON CHRONICLE.
Husband Bill RADER said that while searching for MORRISSEY ancestors in Iowa, the Gen Web County Coordinator for several counties in Northwest Iowa,
informed him that they are related by marriage. Based on work she has done, she provided Bill with approximately 40 Morrissey family members he had no idea
existed. Some are of his generation and still living.
Laurie GUGINO Riester (#3878) and her daughter Kelly spent two weeks traveling in Spain, France, and Italy this summer, before Kelly started college. Special highlights included watching the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, visiting the French Riviera, and taking a tour of the marble quarries at Carrara in Italy. They were pleased to discover that there is quite a bit of Italian influence at the French Riviera, because of its close proximity to the Italian border.
Jeannie MARSALIA (#4251) is trying to find any information on her greatgrandparents, Giovanni MARSAGLIA and Margarita BENEDETTO, and Domenico Catoiso MARCHETTI or MARCHETTO and Domenica MARSAGLIA.
Scott Patrick (#4819) found the marriage record for his third-great grandparents, Pietro D'ALESANDRO and Maria Donata PINTO in the records for Laurenzana
(PZ BA) Italy from 1817. This was earlier than Scott expected and may indicate that there are several more children who were born before his second-great
grandmother Mariantonia Carmela D'ALESANDRO in 1833.
Scott also found birth and death records for other relatives, also in Laurenzana, in his MOTTA and MANZI lines from 1815-1817. They were brothers and
sisters of his direct lines.
An entry in the 1885 Pittsfield, MA city directory lists the photo studio of Watkins and Simmons which is on a photo of Scott's second-great grandfather,
Donato MOTTA. Scott is still trying to identify just when the photo may have been taken and whether this relative was ever in the U.S. Donato was listed as
deceased on the 1881 marriage record of his son, Gaetano, from Laurenzana.
Joe MASTRANGELO (#2614) is still extracting records from the LDS films from Putignano (BA). He has ordered Morte records for 1926, and is trying to understand how his Great Grandmother lived for 23 years after her son left Italy for the U.S. He is hoping the actual death record will reveal a possible second marriage. Dan Nemeck (Chicago PIP, and host of the Berigen List) tells him that the later Putignano records have been filed under BARI, with a subsection for Putignano, reaching to 1929.
Several PIP #10 members attended the Italian Film Nite sponsored by the Austin Italian Cultural Association and the Alamo Draft House Theater. They saw, "The Big Deal on Madonna Street", a subtitled comedy. Mr. Umberto GABBI gave an overview of the film, and provided a list of additional Italian films, which Joe found to rent locally. These include: "La Dolce Vita", Bicycle Thief", "La Strada", "Nights of Cabiria", "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", "Gold of Naples", "Marriage, Italian Style", "Senso", "Rocco and his Brothers", "Divorce, Italian Style", "Roma Citta Aperta", and "Cinema Paradiso".
The film copier is defunct at one of the local LDS family history centers, so Joe will experient with a wide angle auxiliary lens for his Ikon 4500 camera and take pictures of his films.
Next meeting: Potluck from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. at the Round Rock Library on Sept. 17 ---- which is Joe and Marie Mastrangelo's 50th Anniversary !