POINTers IN PERSON Minutes
Central Texas/Austin
Marilyn MANISCALCO Henley (#1653)
Lin ONOFRIO Brinkman (#1388) opened the monthly POINTers In Person meeting
at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 25 with 21 members attending. Minutes
of the
July meeting were distributed. Lin passed around Kingdom of Italy flags
and
pins that members ordered through her from Ruffin Flag Co (1-888-884-3524);
she added that the Kingdom of Italy flag is displayed in one scene
of the
movie “Tea with Mussolini”, which is playing at the area dollar theater.
Lin
showed an Italian colored key chain that her mother, Dorothy MANGO
ONOFRIO
Lippincott made for her.
Louis SCOPEL received the passenger manifest from NARA of the s/s France,
sailing from LeHavre arriving in NY on July 10, 1914 that shows his
grandmother and mother, Carmelina and Maria Biondini from Lesignamo,
Palmia,
Parma.
Tony ABBATTISTA (#2641) reported that the Corato, Bari microfilm, that
goes
back to 1831, has arrived at the FHC. He is filling in the sibling
names to
D’ORIA, CATERINA, ABBATTISTA and TATOLI.
Joe MASTRANGELO (#2614) thanked everyone for his get well cards during
his
recuperation. He announced that he has exhausted the LDS filmed records
for
the communes of Putignano, Matera and Campofiorito. He has his MASTRANGELO
family back to 1740 in Putignano and cannot go back any further. He
has a
copy of the 1867 marriage record of his great grandparents Giuseppe
PUGLIESE
and Maria Luigi LAPORTA.
Joe has a final record to tie the MASTRANGELO families of Putignano,
Bari
together and is organizing those records into a database to apply them
to
the proper families. He ordered ten historical maps of Italy on June
13 from
the Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. S.E. Washington, D.C.
20540
(202) 707-5000, web site: http://www.loc.gov/ but has not received
them yet.
Maria TONTI Schulze, received a letter from WalMart, agreeing to donate
items to the POINT Conference. Maria passed around a 6” antique doll
dressed
in costume of Livorno, Italy, Maria’s home town, that her daughter
and
son-in-law bought for her.
Marilyn MANISCALCO Henley (#1653) passed around copies of photos of
Alia,
Sicily sent by Bob Battaglia of San Antonio. She mentioned a new contact
in
Houston that Joe sent her because she had LORIA family from Poggioreale,
Sicily. Turns out they knew each other in CYO in high school, and they
are
distant cousins, which they didn’t know in the 1960’s. Marilyn
is working
on some Alia records for the name VASSALLO.
The Austin Genealogical Society annual seminar, which Marilyn co-chaired,
was a great success. She thanked Virginia and Jim, who helped and Angie
Clark, who also was among the 203 people registered. Marilyn is presenting
a
genealogy class on other records and professional researchers for Life
Time
Learning on September 29 with other AGS members presenting additional
classes. Marilyn and Arthur’s first grandchild by daughter Shelly Kelly
is
due in the next few weeks.
Gladys and Chick CHIAPPORI spent two months in Amsterdam, New York visiting
friends and family. Chick announced that the NY restaurants are getting
better and better.
Bill Brinkman added to Lin’s surname list: RAGOZZINO, RUSSO, and TROTTA
from
San Angelo in Formis, Caserta, Campania and MASTROJANNI from San Clemente,
Caserta, Campania. Lin received two local history books about San Angelo
in
Formis and Caserta from her cousin in Italy.
Jamie CANNONE is stalled on his research of the TRICOLI and DORIA families
of San Piero Patti, ME, Sicilia. He is presently working on ALIQUO,
TRUSSIANO, MOBILIA and MENDOLIA from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, ME,
Sicilia
for 1835-1845 and VESCO, OTTINO, FAGA and FIORINA from Mercenasco
TO,
Piemonte for 1870-1900.
Virginia MACRI Gerick (#2730) received passenger lists from NARA for
her
paternal grandparents: s/s Chateau Leoville, arrived NY March 22, 1883
from
Bordeaux with gf Pasquale MACRI and s/s Archimede, arrived NY May 16,
1884
via Palermo, Naples & Gibralter with gm Raffaela DE ANGELIS. Virginia’s
mother, who was a small child, was not listed. She will order microfilms
for
two Italian towns when she and Jim return from New Haven Connecticut,
her
hometown. They will do family research while there. Virginia also brought
a
copy of a bound set of 1916 National Geographic that had an extensive
article about Italy.
Jim Gerick related his recent adventure of showing Austin to a
gentleman
from the Czech Republic before they attended a Czech seminar in Hillsboro,.
Jeanie MARSALIA ordered a Declaration of Intention from Colorado County,
TX
for her MARSALIA grandfather. The Texas Vital Records office cannot
locate a
death certificate for his 1955 death. Jeanie received a response from
cousins in Illinois who will share old records that they have of a
MARQUETTE
uncle, her mother’s brother.
Jeanie read an item that was in the Austin American Statesman, “only
2.5
percent of Italy’s population could speak Italian when that complex
of mixed
identities was unified into a nation in 1861.”
Sheila BAYHA Dugosh showed PIRAINO family charts sent by her cousin
Fran
Piraino from his family research. Through him, Sheila’s mother met
some of
her cousins and other family for the first time. She showed photos
and noted
the family resemblance.
The next POINTer In Person Meeting is Wednesday, September 22. Members
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