Category: Updates

Update – Week of 2/29/2020

Quick recap of this week’s additions. Data cleanup continues — we are now through 1842 births. Only 68 years to go! Added the family of Rosa Mastrangelo and Pietro Pantoliano. Rosa and Fireman Pete emigrated separately in the late 1870s and married in New York before settling in Hoboken and raising their 8 children. This […]

Update – week of February 23, 2020

Data/Image check completed through 1832. Imported the family of Vincenzo Racioppi & Mariarosa Pantoliano; update includes 350 new people and 65 images of newspaper articles & grave markers. Of note, this is one of the families that did not emigrate to New York/New Jersey. Instead they travelled directly to Washington, DC where the family put […]

Feb 2020 Update

We discovered an incompatibility between the desktop software we use to build out the trees and the web software used to view it that resulted in duplicate images. But we didn’t want to hold up the launch! So we’re going through all the records one-by-one to do a spot check on the data. We’ll be […]

Launch

After almost 3 years, 18 gigabytes of images and 17,000 people, the Monte San Giacomo project has finally launched! Explore it now! While the basic research (names, vital dates) is freely available to the public, the full site (including all the images) is only available to members. This is necessary to offset the tremendous cost […]