misbris wrote:Here is the breakdown for the # of people in Guardia withe the name Morone.

84.16
Guardia Sanframondi Benevento
Morone

misbris--is this now, or would this have been at the time of immigration? Sorry if I'm asking stupid questions but I'm very new to all this. Thank you!

Thanks to you both so very much! Now that we have all the information we will send away for the proper certificates from NYC and then begin speaking with the consulate here in LA to find out what our next steps should be.

We think we have found him! It seems that he did come over through Castle Garden and not Ellis Island. The ship is the Archimede.

He's on line 24--can anyone make out the name of his last residence? And would this be the comune?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamsterballs/4089979647/sizes/o ...

I found some information at castlegarden.org which may help? I'm digging up some things which seem to fit, but I'm not sure.

Giovanni Morone

Came over on the Archimede, arrived May 24, 1899?
origin Italy, port Naples
destination NYC.

I'm thinking that Rigent is Henrietta and Rominigus (could that be Dominigus? it's difficult to read on the census) is Dominic? The address is certainly correct.

Does the fact that he immigrated in 1890 mean that he did not come through Ellis Island? I have read that Ellis Island opened in 1892 ...

I do have a question about the marriage certificate just for clarity before I send the request in--is the certificate number 1905 (1902)? I believe this is it but I want to make sure before I send.

Thanks!

vj, I have that information right here, let me get my notebook. :)

They lived at 320 E. 59th St, NY NY. He was naturalized on March 8, 1921 at 47 years of age. My hubby's father says that they lived on the island of Manhattan, almost directly underneath the 59th St. bridge?

John and Fannie, as ...

vj--this is amazing. It definitely looks like her. I'm horrible at genealogy and tracing roots, and I didn't expect to find such amazing help so quickly. Sincerely, I can't thank you enough.

Wow, vj, thank you so very much! In just a few seconds we have gotten information that we've been searching for forever!

All of these links are incredibly helpful to us. I think hubby and I made the right move coming to this site!

I'll be following through on this ASAP--again, thank you tons!

Thanks very much for this website--though I do not speak or read Italian. Is this a place I should send a form letter to? What we are looking to do, ultimately, is get our Italian passports. Any further advice would be greatly appreciated.

edited to add:

duh. I'm being very stupid. I get what to ...

Americanized to John Morone. He was born in Benevento in 1874. He was married to a woman named Stefanina Simoncini (sp?), who was born in Palermo in 1881.

They came to this country and were married here, in NYC around the turn of the century.

We're trying to find their exact dates of birth, and ...