POINTers IN PERSON Minutes
Chapter # 10 Central Texas/Austin
Marilyn MANISCALCO Henley (# 1653)
Lin ONOFRIO Brinkman (# 1388) opened the monthly POINTers In Person meeting Saturday, Sept 20, 2003 at the Round Rock Public Library, with 18 members sharing a delicious pot-luck lunch. Jamie CANNONE won the door prize of an Italian pin.
Lin read an email requesting contact with Marco SCAVO who attended a meeting in September 1997; Joe Mastrangelo will post the email to PIE since no one had current information about him.
Marilyn MANISCALCO Henley (# 1653) reported that her daughter Shelly Henley
Kelly, archivist at the University of Houston Clear Lake, received her
Certified Archivist.
Marilyn's family reunion of the MESSINA Sisters from
Poggioreale Sicily, which includes MANISCALCO, MONTALBANO and WEIDO (GUIDA)
families, is Oct 5 in Houston.
Marilyn will present a lecture on
Genealogical Research Sources at the Airport Hilton in Austin, on Nov 7, at
the Texas State Genealogical Society (TSGS) Annual Conference that runs Nov
7 & 8 and is being held in Austin.
Marilyn and Pat OXLEY (# 3713) attended the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) National Conference in Orlando Sept 3 - 6 to help prepare for the FGS National Conference to be held in Austin 2004, September 8 - 11, co-hosted by the Austin Genealogical Society (AGS) and TSGS. Pat will serve as Exhibits Co-chair and Marilyn is the local host society (AGS) co-chair. They will be in Salt Lake City Oct 7 - 12 on a research trip sponsored by AGS and organized by PIP members Pat Oxley and Lynn LE CROPANE (#4728), who put the trip together after their wonderful experience of last year's SLC POINT Conference.
Carol MAINA Roam (# 4623) is still working on locating U.S. World War II military records.
Christy PALUMBO Foster (#2767) is continuing to perform Eastern European
songs with the Austin Balkan singers. She hope to soon learn traditional
Arbaresh folk songs that link to her heritage, which includes an area of
Naples of Italian-Albanians who spoke Arberesh, a combination of Albanian
and Italian.
Her husband Dan is part of the Cunningham family, who has the
longest running family reunion in the U.S. The Cunningham reunion meets
every 2nd weekend in August on the same plot of land that they've been
meeting on since 1889 in Newburg, Texas (between Goldthwaite and Comanche).
Jeanne MARSALIA (#4251) brought her mother Dolly MARSALIA with her to the lunch. Jeanne is still trying to find her grandfather's naturalization record in Oklahoma, but so far has not located it.
Dorothy MANGO ONOFRIO Lippincott announced that "her" new wing on the new home she shares with Lin and Bill will be completed in about two weeks.
Lin and Bill Brinkman had wonderful news that their son Andrew, who is in the Air Force, will be based in San Antonio. Bill is headed to Mobile for a reunion of his "old" submarine crew on the Sea Poacher.
Ernie and Gloria GAMBACCINI Silva watched a Rick Steves program on one of Gloria's ancestral areas, BROVNIK. They are headed to Worchester, MA to visit with RICCI & GAMBACCINI families and will also visit Ellis Island.
Virginia MACRI Gerick (# 2730) had a return phone call from a professor she contacted in May regarding a photo of a settlement House in New Haven, CT taken in the early 1900's. However, he did not have the information she was seeking.
Jim Gerick announced that they are attending the annual national Czech Seminar Oct 15 - 18 in Houston.
Jamie CANNONE checks www.cyndislist.com Marie Mastrangelo cannot locate her mother in the 1930 census for New York.
She has sent a request to NY for her parents' marriage license.
Joe MASTRANGELO (# 2614) found another collateral family PUGLIESE birth
record. On a non-related birth record, for a foundling, he encountered a
notation acknowledging parentage. That was the first time he had seen this
kind of a notation in the Nati Records.Joe has recorded 2,600 MASTRANGELO and PUGLIESE birth & marriage records
from the microfilmed records of PUTIGNANO. Joe is scheduled to present a
lecture at the 2004 POINT Conference in Kansas City.
Sherry PACELLI Haddox sent a clarification of the August minutes. Her
paternal great-grandmother was Annunziata BIONDI PACELLI, from Benevento.
Her grandmother was Vincenza GLIATTA PACELLI, from Greci. She has traced
her ancestors from Greci on both sides of her grandmother's family, to the
1700's, and includes the surnames of GLIATTA and DIMINNO.
The next meeting is set for Wednesday, October 22, 6:30 - 8:55 pm.
Our chapter web site is at http://www.main.org/pip10/
He specifically
looked at World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air
Forces Personnel from Pennsylvania.