So many great responses to this topic. All of your observations have been a great help to me personally (and hopefully to the group as a whole), and I want to...
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Domenic Livoli
domenic803
Jul 1, 2007 1:35 pm
Hello, I asked my mother last night and she also did say that the Itrani people went to Marseilles to work the coal mines. They also went to Germany and ...
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Judy Tuccinardi
judytucci@...
Jul 1, 2007 10:50 am
Hi Rick (an everyone else too), In looking at your list of surnames and some of them are ones that are in my database too: Agresti, DeLucia (similar to your...
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marie saccoccio
saccocciom
Jul 1, 2007 2:47 am
I have also read on rootsweb one member describing her ancestor from Itri (female) who started out from Itri and landed in Marseille and then that same ship...
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marie saccoccio
saccocciom
Jul 1, 2007 2:41 am
Now here is a very different account, but much earlier; however, I could only access this one page on the web: gcpezza@... wrote: Hi everyone, I talked to...
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gcpezza@...
Jul 1, 2007 12:42 am
Hi everyone, I talked to my father today. Many Itrani's went to France for work. Marseilles the main area where they worked the ports. Also Mentz in Northern...
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Pamela Costa
sailpamc
Jun 30, 2007 1:29 pm
I'm not sure if you all got this, but this is a great new site. Interesting link: http://Italia.indettaglio.it Pam...
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Rick J
rickj100001
Jun 30, 2007 4:13 am
Speculation on the splitting up of families: The immigration quota theory seems to make sense, but I have also read that the Italian gov't really didn't resist...
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Rick J
rickj100001
Jun 30, 2007 3:29 am
Linda, I had a chance to do some research on this today. I didn't come up with any specific info on why Marseille was the choice destination or why families...
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Andrea Perkins
dldvm
Jun 29, 2007 11:53 pm
Dear Rick, Look in to the possibility that your Italian family could be Jewish Italian people who were escaping the persecution. Andrea Andrea N. Perkins ... ...
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gcpezza@...
Jun 29, 2007 11:09 pm
Hi everyone, I don't know the exact reason why they went to France. Today Domenic and I have many relatives in Marseilles. Victoria Pezza married a Ruggieri...
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Pam Costa
sailpamc
Jun 29, 2007 3:34 pm
Marie, We have been in touch before. My gparents were on the Rochambeau out of LeHavre. What year did yours come over? ... From: marie saccoccio To:...
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marie saccoccio
saccocciom
Jun 29, 2007 1:47 pm
Pam, This is fasciniating. My grandmother was a Masci/Sodi. I think it is a good idea to put the family names in when we sign our posts. My Masci/Sodi...
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Linda Peloquin
miyukichan0987
Jun 29, 2007 12:46 pm
Rick, I think you might have been refering to my post when you started this thread. I, too, was puzzled as to why a poor family, and lets face it, our Itrani...
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Pamela Costa
sailpamc
Jun 29, 2007 11:25 am
My grandparents took their ship out of LeHavre, France in 1920. Is that Marseilles or near it? I don't believe they ever lived there. They were from...
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rickj100001
Jun 29, 2007 4:33 am
Great points - all of them. Maybe I am reading too much into all of this. But my great-grandmother had 2 children after moving to Marseilles from Itri, so she...
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marie saccoccio
saccocciom
Jun 29, 2007 3:41 am
1) Poverty and the myth that America's streets were paved with gold. Perhaps the unification of Italy was also a precipitating factor though. Hard to ignore...
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rickj100001
Jun 29, 2007 3:25 am
Marie, I wonder if the reason fewer people were sailing from Marseilles than Naples isn't part of the answer. It just seems to me that such a protracted...
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DestinyLad@...
LauraLady99
Jun 29, 2007 2:31 am
BINGO! That's exactly what my grandfather did. Renata ... From: marie saccoccio <saccocciom@...> To: FraDiavolo@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, 28 Jun 2007...
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marie saccoccio
saccocciom
Jun 29, 2007 1:28 am
I also saw this in my research. I assumed it had to do with it being easier to get a boat from Marseille to NY, than Naples to NY. Far fewer people were...
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Domenic Livoli
domenic803
Jun 29, 2007 1:14 am
I am not sure, but my cousin Greg Pezza may want to try to answer this one. Our grandmother, Euleria (Ciccone) Pezza had a sister that moved to Marseilles,...
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rickj100001
Jun 29, 2007 12:29 am
I read in another thread where someone had questions as to why one of his female ancestors left Itri for Marseilles, France, while the female ancestor's...
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rickj100001
Jun 29, 2007 12:10 am
Thanks Jason. The Western Europe vital records CD for Itri does not contain birth/christening records at all, at least on the CD that I received. But I ordered...
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Jason S
jsoscia3
Jun 28, 2007 4:03 pm
Rick, As far as I know, you'd have to write to the Town Hall in Itri for any information after 1865. I did that for a couple of documents. Then it became...
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rickj100001
Jun 28, 2007 12:51 pm
I have read that the record-keeping that resulted in many of the documents that were produced between 1806 and 1865 were the result of an order from Napolean....
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Rick J
rickj100001
Jun 28, 2007 12:50 pm
Hi Joe, Thanks, I contacted Jason and he has already replied and will be sending me a copy of the Catasti. I know that you don't list any Iacueos on your tree,...
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Joseph Fidaleo
zicep@...
Jun 27, 2007 1:56 pm
Hello, I worked through all the Itri microfilms for about 3 years. I wouldn't pass it up. It has much more info. The Catasti 1754 was a chip-in deal organized...
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Joseph Fidaleo, Sr.
zicepo@...
Jun 27, 2007 11:44 am
... From: LADYT70282@... <LADYT70282@...> Date: Jun 7, 2007 1:55 PM Subject: Fwd: gas prices...good logic To: benvic@...,...
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rickj100001
Jun 27, 2007 11:43 am
Hello, new guy here. My name is Rick, and I live on Long Island, NY. I have been researching my family name on my father's side, Iacueo. The Iacueos originated...
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vince_sandrone
Jun 3, 2007 4:50 am
I just came across something that may be interesting for any-one related to the postmaster (or whatever the role was) in Itri in 1864 or just collects stamps. ...
