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Here are some notes about this data base.

I use the Personal Ancestry File program to maintain this data. The PAF program is available free from the LDS website. The PAF program keeps its data in its own data base but it can export the data in "GEDCOM" format. This is the common genealogical format that many programs can read. Then I use the GED4WEB program to convert the GEDCOM data into web pages.

I try to add notes to each person in the file. The notes show the source of the information about that person. I'm not always successful.

In the notes, a reference to a "Film" is to the microfilmed Italian birth/marriage/death records available from the LDS Church at their Family History Centers located all over the world. I might make a reference such as "Film 1353702 Morti 1865 #23, 67y" - this is LDS microfilm number 1353702, death record #23 for 1865 with age of death of 67 years. US films are also available and you will see those referenced as well. Many are from churches in the US showing baptism/marriage/death information.

I tried to only use the birth year for any person still living. I leave off the birth month and day for privacy reasons. Let me know if you find one that I missed and I'll fix it.

Once a person dies, their Social Security Account Number becomes public information and can be found on any genealogy web site. No living person's SSAN should be in my data base.

Fair use of my GEDCOM file --- I make my GEDCOM file available so all of my cousins can use it. PLEASE don't upload it to any genealogy web sites. I ask this because once my GED is uploaded to a searchable web site, I can't do searches on that site anymore. In effect, you will have polluted that web site for me --- any search that I make to look for new people, just returns my GED data. Send me an email if you would like a complete copy of my GEDCOM file to use on your computer.

When a person was generally known by their middle name, that name is CAPITALIZED. In Italy, there were Maria Domenica's, Maria Rosa's, Maria Giuseppa's, Maria Grazia's, etc who were known by their middle name. Some, of course, were just known as Maria. Sometimes, if a person had an unusual first name, they used their middle name (Gesudato CARMINE Frazzini). Some used a nickname which I put in quotes (Compagno Nuovo Emangipato Perfetto "Novino" Carlini).

Immigration - I use "EI" as the abbreviation for Ellis Island. Click here for a history. The dates given are the arrival dates. Other ship arrival cities include Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore. For immigrants coming from Canada (there are many arrival cities), I found the information on http://www.ancestry.com . For New York immigration records outside of the Ellis Island era (1892-1924), my source was http://www.ancestry.com and the Castle Garden web site. For New York arrivals, I found this information on the Ellis Island web site in the document "History of Castle Garden and Ellis Island":

        Immigrant Arrivals in the PORT of NEW YORK

    Before August 1855                                          Wharfs of Manhattan
    August         1, 1855   to   April         18,1890   Castle Garden
    April          19, 1890   to   December 31,1891    Barge Office
    January        1, 1892   to   June          13,1897    Ellis Island
    June           14, 1897   to   December 16,1900    Barge Office
    December 17, 1900 to                         1924   Ellis Island

The wooden buildings on ELLIS ISLAND burned to the ground on 13 June 1897. The old BARGE OFFICE was reopened and used as the processing center for immigrants through the PORT of NEW YORK for the next 3 ½ years. Ellis Island reopened on 17th December 1900.

On July 1, 1924 a new law went into effect which stated that immigrants were to be inspected at US consular offices in the immigrant's home country before coming to the US (Mark's note: this removed the need for a US based inspection point ). Ellis Island continued to be used as an alien detention center until November 1954.
( From http://genrootsblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/ellis-island-castle-garden-which-one.html)

A reference to "SPA transcribed birth/marriage/death record" means the information was based on San Pietro Avellana microfilm indexing work done by Shirley Sinclaire and Cris Sweyte. This is a massive, years long effort by Shirley and Cris. The transcription was made from the yearly indexes in the microfilms. Sometimes those indexes contained dates and parent's names and sometimes they didn't. I've noted by words like "details not transcribed" to shows when the indexes did not contain dates or parent's names. You will have to look at the actual microfilmed records to get the details - they are in the actual record, just not the index.

A note about "Reconstructed" records : In the records from San Pietro Avellana, about 8 years of records during the late 1800's have been completely lost. Around 1954, the civil authorities in SPA attempted to reconstruct as many of the missing records as they could. They asked all the town's people to report to the city hall, the names of people and dates of the record for the missing years. Of course, this meant that only the missing records of people who were known to the then current residents of SPA would be reported. In my family tree data base, I've noted those records with either the word "reconstructed" or the symbol "(R)". In determining the accuracy of these records, keep in mind that some of them were based on 100 year old memories.

When I could not connect a family to my family line (and thus be able to add the information to the GEDCOM file), I created a graphical representation of that family. You can view all of those Graphical Trees. Over the years, in many cases, I've connected those families to my family and put their data into my GEDCOM file. But I've still left those families on the Graphical Trees and added a note to look in the GEDCOM file for more information. Here are the diVecchia Graphical Trees and here are the Frazzini Graphical Trees.

The Church in my mother's hometown of San Pietro Avellana conducted a census at various times. We have been digitizing and transcribing those as we have time. They generally contained a list of all the families and family members in SPA along with their year of birth and sometimes their day of birth. They usually contained the names of the parents of the husband and wife. These were an important source of information in documenting generational family lines. They are listed in the notes in the GEDCOM file as:

1869 SPA Status Animarum
1852 SPA Status Animarum
1769 SPA Status Animarum
1749 SPA Status Animarum

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