We really enjoyed reading about your first trip to Sicily and the experience you had in your husband's "home town." My husband and I have been living in Italy now since April 2005. We spent eight months in Perugia and are now in Sicily until the end of May. We have a long-stay visa and have obtained ...

Libonbo Bivetto
Brooklyn, Kings, NY
born abt 1886
He and his wife both entered the USA in 1903 and in 1930 are still aliens - had not filed any of the paperwork for naturalization. All the children born in NY.

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Debbie, thanks so much for all of ...

Thanks for the response. My husband and I are retired and living in Italy, currently in Marina di Ragusa. My grandfather's place of birth was Baucina, near Palermo. What you say is very interesting. We were told as children that he was an "orphan" and we know of no other family members. The "Libonio ...

My grandfather's name was Libonio Bivetto. I have yet to meet another person with this name or found one in my searching in the U.S. and in Italy, in his hometown of Baucina, Sicily. We even asked all the old guys in the square and no one had heard of this name. The story goes that he was an orphan ...