Well the gossip through the generations is that Antonino was "possibly" married in the same Sicilian town before he got together with Grazia... my grandmother and her sisters were "tight-lipped about" this; especially since he died long before their mother did.. "supposedly" (all speculation) there was a son left in Biancavilla AND he went back sometime to Italy for a visit- but there was also another son on the manifest, or brother- we have no idea- He's underneath Grazia; Benedetto- He was 12, that would have made him born the same year Grazia and Antonino got married.... juicy gossip at that time?!
I was never able to find anything about Antonino on any later manifests.. I searched EI's records.. lots of Antonino/Antonio/Antony's but after 1920 the records get hazy! Nor did I ever find anything on Benedetto- he seemed to disappear... BUT on an interesting note (I found, and I've tried doing so much research on everyone I forget why I found this, but it was from NARA's ARC) a death certificate that for an Antonino Verzi (one year old child) at the same address as the Russo family in Lawrence... this told me that the Verzi family, who they must have met up with after getting of the ship from Palermo, and the Russo family resided together in Mass.
I also know that Grazia never really learned english (she sort of raised my father and he only spoke italian until he was about
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Since USCIS and all of my searches don't seem to find any Antonio that Naturalized, I'm still inclined to believe that he never did.... but why did he never get an ARC????? AND on the 1930 census he still declared himself an Alien...
Thanks Qnana- its good to know that even if there are no numbers he COULD have been naturalized... did your Grandfather naturalize in a State or Local court, instead of the Federal Court?
I cannot go thru Grazia- first of all she never could get her name straight, hehe, and second she had my grandmother way before 1948!!! (you were right)
I am thinking of purchasing a one-month prescription to Ancestry- do you think it's worth it, that I could find more information on my GGF? It would be beneficial, I'm still also just interested in learning more about them and the extended family....
Perhaps I try NH......