My Great Grandfather (Domenico Parisi a.k.a. Dominick, Dominic) was born on March 13, 1891 (we are pretty sure.) He immigrated from Siderno in Reggio Calabria and came to NYC on June 4th 1909. He moved to Brooklyn and lived at 414 Lefferts Ave. He gave birth to my Grandfather on January 1st, 1917 ...

Hi Laura,

Gelormo (my grandfather) came back to the states in (we think) Jaunary of 1962. He did not take the boat, but rather flew.

Hey Laura:

Another thing... when doing some more research I ran across another record. It is a WWII registration card:

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/5792/maybewwii.jpg
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/169/maybewwiip2.jpg

I was still not sure about the birthday and last name and such, only ...

My Great Grandfather (Dominico Parisi) was born on March 13, 1891 and moved from Siderno to Brooklyn in June 4th, 1909. He gave birth to my Grand Father, Gelormo Parisi, on January 1st, 1917. It looks that he never started the naturalization process until at least 1921, if he did at all… still ...

I have also looked through several of these databases for Dominico's naturalization records:

http://www.stevemorse.org/vital/naturalization.html

and found several different ones, in both Brooklyn and Manhattan. I also found another on this site:

http://www.jgsny.org/mycgi/bnew.php?SURNAMEKind ...

Hey Laura,

Yes, that is very true. No others in Siderno, so that makes sense. On top of this, you are right, the occupations match as we always knew he “died on the railroadâ€

Another question for you… would that be his signature on the bottom of the left side of the registration card? Why would he sign his own name with the incorrect last name? Also, it seems that the last name Barresi is another common Italian name… are we sure this is actually him?

-Travis

I gave that a try earlier today and unfortunately only 2 records are displayed, neither of which display the correct age for his birth year of 1891. Any other possible resources?

This forum was able to help me to identify my great grandfather’s birth date, among other things, earlier today. That said, I almost have everything I need to start getting documents for dual citizenship. My thread from earlier is here .

I am now attempting to identify 3 more dates:

-The birth ...

THANK YOU SO MUCH! ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!

vj!!

That is def them! That is amazing to see!! Gelormo was obviosuly written as Gerome and that is his younger sister as well!

and Pink67, thank you so much! You guys are incredible!

I am extremely new to this, as I am sure many others here are as well… and am requesting any help/guidance/direction to locate a family record. I am attempting to obtain dual citizenship but unfortunately do not know if my great grandfather was naturalized at the time of my grandfathers birth ...