A day in the southern Italian Valle d’Itria. We drove south thinking we would stop first in Martina Franca. I don’t know why it was so crowded and busy, perhaps because it was Sunday and all the locals were coming and going to church, but we could not find a spot to park so weContinueContinue reading “Valle d’Itria”
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Puglia!
Centro Formaggi A travel day. Left windy Firenze – first a bus to the train station, then a train to Pisa. Loved looking at the countryside. Then we took the Pisamover to the airport, where we boarded Ryan Air (yes, my checked bag was under weight!) to Bari. It was POURING rain when we landed;ContinueContinue reading “Puglia!”
Mapping Your Ancestors
Washington Place Plantation, East Feliciana, Louisiana, ca 1822 I LOVE maps. Not GPS or GIS, but maps printed on paper, and the older the better. Atlases, survey maps, geographical maps, plat maps, navigational charts, subdivision plats, and sometimes even topographical maps. Each type of map shows different data that can be helpful in your familyContinueContinue reading “Mapping Your Ancestors”
Italian Banda in Yonkers, New York
In the mid-1980s, I visited my great-aunt Nettie in Yonkers, New York, where she had lived her entire life. One of my most cherished possessions is a tambourine she gave me that has the inscription “Property of Rinaldi’s Band.” My great-grandparents, Angelo Rinaldi and Maria Bonacci, immigrated to the U.S. in 1903 and 1905 respectively.ContinueContinue reading “Italian Banda in Yonkers, New York”
Family Tragedy: Giuseppe Salvagione
The only known photograph of Giuseppe, taken ca 1911 in Corato.
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