POINTers IN PERSON Minutes
Chapter # 10 Central Texas/Austin
Submitted by: Sherry PACELLI Haddox (4883)
Joe MASTRANGELO (#2614) opened the monthly meeting at 6:30pm with 7 people in attendance. Lin (ONOFRIO) Brinkman, the chapter president, was in
Washington D.C. with her husband, Bill, awaiting the birth of their first grandson.
Joe is continuing to extract death records from 1809 on and he is currently viewing 1873 records. His current record count is at just over 1650 death records
extracted and recorded in the access data base. The data recorded in the birth and marriage data bases continue to be useful in clarifying information observed in the
death records.
Unfortunately in February Joe lost the last of his previous generation on the Mastrangelo side of his family. Joe's aunt, Amelia MASTRANGELO, his father's youngest
sister, passed away at the age of 94. She was born in 1914.
Also, Joe recently found out that Bill SERRAVEZZA, who was distantly related through the PUGLIESE (maternal side of the paternal family), also passed away in
February '07 at the age of 94. He was born in 1913. They were connected through two Pugliese brothers, Giuseppe and Vito. Joe's paternal grandmother, Antonia
PUGLIESE, is descended from Giuseppe and Vito's grandfather, Giovanni, who married Maria Antonia PUGLIESE, daughter of Vito. Maria Antonia PUGLIESE and
Joe's grandmother, Antonia PUGLIESE were first cousins. Joe learned of Bill's death because the Christmas card Joe and Marie sent was returned three months later.
Jeanie MARSALIA (#4251) has learned the names of her great-great grandparents and has the following names to add to her family chart: Giuseppe
MARSAGLIA-CAGNOLA, Gioanna CHIOVATTERO and Giuseppe MARCHETTO-CATOISO, Domenica FORNEL GENAT
Jeanie's son has booked their flights to Italy. They will leave on May 28th and return on June 7th.
The meeting adjourned at 8:00pm. Our next meeting will be April 23rd at 6:30pm at Merrill Gardens, 8005 Cornerwood Drive in Round Rock.