what film? and no I am not able to find his birth records at the familysearch.org site. I've looked over and over, either they dont have it or I really suck at this.

How did you find information on this Maria Salatino and that she was their mother? I visited your website, I guess you have better resources than we do here in America. I do know that my Great grandfather did have a step mother at some point but i have never found any marriage records. But if his ...

[quote="suanj"]the big earthquake in Messina was in 1908... and because
in the ship's manifest found from Joe,

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Ok crazy thing, I found my great grandfather's naturalization papers and he did arrive on the Nord America on November 21, 1904. So I am guessing that claim on the passenger list about visiting family was a lie to just get into the country. So that IS him but I still have not found anything about ...

I'm not sure if that is my family in that ship document or not. I think maybe not because my grandmother told me he had 2 sisters. Thank you Joe, I cannot read that writing but if it said they were visiting family that would have to be wrong because they were the first to immigrate from my family ...

So I have an ancestry.com membership but it is of no help because I cannot find any Italian records. I know my Great great grandfather was Antonio Tortorella and he was born about 1868. No one knows the name of his wife, my great grandfathers mom. She died in an earthquake in Messina between 1900 ...