Thank YOU!!!!! This is invaluable information! She will be thrilled for this help!

Hello,

A friend is heading to vital records in Boston in a few days. She is in search of her Grandfather's naturalization certificate. Her family has very little information. I've started to look at the 1940 Census and did find him.
NAME: Caesar Candelora
SPOUSE: Rose J Candelora
BIRTH: abt 1905 ...

Glad to hear it Nick, This seems to be a place I go during the thick of winter! This is a very delayed response! Wishing you all the best.

Nick, Yes Deloia is how a lot of my relatives spelled their last name in USA. Have you been to Italy since you learned all of these things about your family? Please share!

Yes that is the correct address for our family in Italy. Small world huh? What is the family name you are researching? I wonder if we are distant cousins?

Brunetti, D'Aloia, Iacovelli, Palmieri????

Many Italians in Milford came from that little town in italy.

Hi Diana,

Welcome to the forum.

It depends. When did he become a US Citizen? Before or after your father was born?

About the letter... That's not the one I ended up using. I simplified it and finally got a response! Try this:

Egregi Signori,
Mi chiamo (your name here), ed abito negli Stati ...

Thanks for the words of encouragement... I'm on year 4! It has been a wonderfule experience so far and I feel that I'm on home stretch, maybe by the end of the year??!!! Here's hoping.

Just a quick question on the Delfanti name. Is that also from the Lombardia Region which name goes to which region?

Looks like I'll be making a visit to the Kennedy Library in Boston very soon!

Thanks for all the help!

OH YEAH! Great!
UGH! no city in Italy is listed! I'll try with the possibilities listed in the thread.

I love this forum!

VJ,

Thanks so much for the marriage information! Right ON!! Ship lists look accurate for who I'm looking for too. I wonder when my great-grandmother came... If they were married here, then she must have come to the USA with her own family at an earlier date. Maybe a shiplist for Giocondo Milani ...

Hello All,

I've got a bit of research to do here. Boston Consulate's Mr. C has asked for spelling corrections on my paternal grandmother's papers. I'll need to find her parents information from the late 1800's early 1900's. They were both from Northern Italy (don't know exact town).

Luigi Delfanti ...

Thanks for the info, but it doesn't apply for this person as he only died back in 2000. ancestry.com wouldn't have that info yet.

Hello ALL!

I'm wondering if anyone here has experience with requesting a passport application for a deceased relative from the Department of State Passport Services Research and Liaison Section.

I'm now on 4 months waiting for a reply. I'm suspicious because the fee that I paid for the ...

It would help to know who Filomena's parents were... any idea? In Italy women never take a married name so they keep their birth name for life. Do you have her death certificate? On the certificate it would list her parents names I think.

I know she's not a close relative. She may be a distant ...

Was her full name Maria Filomena Tosches? Do you know who her father and mother and grandparents were? Maria Filomena is a family name, but we'd need to know the parents and grandparents to be sure.

- Joanna