looking for my relatives in Italy

[renada]

Monday, February 27, 2006 (08:54:58)
My name is Renada,
I don't know or ever met any of my relatives from in Italy. I am deparately seeking information to find my relatives. Both my parents are dececeased & I would like to know my ancestry & find any surviving relatives.
My father was from Gravina his name was Lawrence Cantore. I believe he & his family migrated to the USA when he was 10 years old to Brooklyn NY. His father's name was Pasqaulino Cantore.
My mother was from Cetara. Her surname was Di Siana. I know she had a brother named Alfonso that was an adopted war orphan. Also she has some cousins still there.
Any info would be greatly appreciated.

[ricbru]

Hello Renada,
before looking for you relatives in Italy here there is what I found

Pasquale Cantore, from Gravina, ship record

Lawrence Cantore ssdi

Name LAWRENCE CANTORE
Birth 23 Jan 1915
Death Jun 1975 (not specified)
Last Residence (none specified)
Last Benefit
SSN 197-10-2877
Issued Pennsylvania

In Italy there are 3 Gravina, but looking for address Via San Sebastiano (see ship manifest), it is Gravina di Puglia (province of Bari)

This is the map locating the house left from Pasquale, there used to live his wife Giuseppa

http://www.tuttocitta.it/tc/mappa.jsp?c ... e=null&d=1


Cantore in Gravina di Puglia phone book:

Cantore Fighera Grazia
70024 Gravina In Puglia (BA) - Via De Gasperi Alcide, 28
080 3252747

You can send a request of civil and vital records, to look for your relatives to

Comune
Ufficio servizi demografici
Via Vittorio Veneto, 12
70024 Gravina In Puglia (BA)
Italy

if you want to look for civil and vital records to Cetara write to

Comune
Ufficio servizi demogfrafici
Corso Umberto 1
84010 Cetara (SA)
Italy

bye Riccardo

[renada]

thank you very much for the lead. I will look through my records to see if any of the information matches up. Hopefully it will & I'll have somewhere to start looking.