Peter! OOPS! I am SO sorry! I was on my blackberry yesterday and I didnt see it all! Purgatorio is such and odd name that you are probably right about that. I googled it and all that comes up is Dante's inferno "purgatorio". So maybe it is a nickname from that character. But, I did find a ...
Hey Valerie and Laura! Thank you SO MUCH! You are right, I am totally unfamiliar with any sort of records search..I just recently got interested in this because I never knew anything about my father's side of the family because I never knew him. He just made contact with me and has given me a little...
Hello, I was wondering if there was any information from Italy on Oddo Purgatorio such as birth place and date, parents names, marriage, and immagration info for when he moved to kansas. This site has been very helpful in finding my grandfather's information, (Oswald Purgatorio) I was just hoping I ...
Hi Laura! Yes! This is my family Oddo was my great grandfather and Oswald was my grandfather. Thank you SO much for helping us find this information! My father says my grandfather was Sicilian, maybe they had moved or it was on the great grandmothers side of the family? Anyway, Thank you again! Jolene
Hi there, I just found out that my biological father's parents came from Palermo, Sicily. The family name is Pergatorio. They migrated to the US in the late 1800's or early 1900's. Their son John Oswald Pergatorio was born in Missouri in 1908. John later changed his last name to Gable, which was a p...
Thanks for responding so quickly! The thing is, my real father's name was Johnny Gable, I think Molinaro was his mother's maiden name. He was born around 1930-1945. I don't have any other information. (My mother's maiden name is Dalyn A. Dailey born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1938. They were married ...
Hi There, I am looking for any information on the Molinaro family. I was adopted by my step father so I have no information about that side of my family. (My mother will not tell me anything about my real father, but I did find out that his mother's last name was Molinaro.) If anyone has any informa...
The older generations who lived in southern Italy certainly remember the sound of the bells or the siren that occurred at various times of the day. Life was marked by simple and repetitive gestures: work, the relationship with nature, sharing with the family and the people of the small villages. Now...