While the indexers of the Sassano archive occasionally noted that marriages involved people from Monte San Giacomo, they only did so if the annotator of the the records did so in the margins. I couldn’t believe that here were so few intermarriages between the two communes, so I looked through the first batch of images, […]

This month’s update concerns the family of Michele Romano and Raffaela Rosini. Like many Monte San Giacomese, Michele and Raffaele emigrated to the United States in the late 1800s and settled in New Jersey. What is most interesting about them is that their children (and grand-children) kept the community of Monte San Giacomo alive by […]

The Vernonville Dairy, 617 W 46th Street, New York City, is the thread that ties this update together. It was owned (along with several other Milk related companies) by Antonio Racioppi and his brother Frank, serving as president and vice-president. Many of his employees were his family. However the research didn’t start with Antonio, I […]

This update begins the process of uncovering other Monte San Giacomese living in the united states laterally — through marriage to an already identified emigrant. For example, having loaded in my own family tree, I knew that Mary Fischkelta married Saverio “Sam” Monaco. Some quick searching of Sam revealed that he descends from Saverio Cono […]

This month’s update concerns the Lovizio sisters, Angela and her husband Giuseppe Monaco and Maria and her husband Pietro Romano. This update is about 120 people and 470 images. This is the kind of research I find very rewarding because, through it, you can see how the Monte San Giacomese are all connected and continued […]

Now that the personal family tree is out of the way, the real research into the Monte San Giacomo diaspora begins. This first update involves the children of Angelo Lisa and Maria Iannuzzi: Raffaele Lisa‘s family with Rosa Macchiarulo, Antonia Capporino and Amelia Cavaliere; Ermiddio Lisa‘s family with Angela Calabrese and Angela Rubino; and Annantonia […]

Prior to starting the Monte San Giacomo project, I was interested in tracing my personal family tree to the present day. But during the course of doing the Monte San Giacomo project I stumbled on another relationship (ironically, through a Sassanno processitti record). That caused me to revisit my own tree (and also delay direct […]

The slow process of checking indvidual records continues. Checked through 1872. A modest update of about 330 people and 105 images to the families of Francesco Brando & Paolina Sica, and Domenico Vernaglia & Maria Sabini. Discovered the first person (as far as the research goes) that died in WWII. Dominick Gallo, 1922-1944, died on […]

The global pandemic thankfully has not affected us, but has put a dent in our productivity! Even so, we’re slogging through it! This update reflects data cleanup through 1871. Also, it looks like the Virtual Tour of the Monte San Giacomo Cemetery has been restored. So we’ve started going through that content to make connections […]