Many Jewish families moved to Egypt in the 19th century to work on the Suez Canal. Egypt mostly refused to grant them citizenship so most retained their citizenship from their country of origin for generations. In fact one of the most famous Jewish families in Egypt, the Cicurel family, was of ...

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Are you able to estimate how long your GGF lived and worked in Pennsylvania Coal Country?

If your GGF was living in Coal country, he would not be on the 1920 Philadelphia census.

I have asked my family members and no one seems to know exactly when he left the Coal region. However it's ...

Oh and I live in NYC

My GGF came to the U.S. at age 17, in September 1912, and he came by himself. He had some contacts in the States because he went up to Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania (the coal region) and worked in the mines for several years before working his way back to Philadelphia, where he spent the rest of his ...

Grazie per l'aiuto!

Thank you for your reply.

Yes I am looking for information on my family and curious to see if I have living relatives in Italy.

My great-grandfather's name was Antonio Dominianni and he was born around 8 July 1895 in Isca Sullo Ionio. He had a brother named Bruno Fiore Dominianni born in 1903. I ...

Is anyone familiar with the Dominianni family of Isca Sullo Iono, Catanzaro Provice, Calabria Region?

Or the Qualtieri family of Davoli, Cantanzaro Province?

Ok here is the story:

My great-grandfather (maternal grandfather's father) immigrated to the USA in 1912. My maternal grandfather was born in 1935. My mother was born in 1954. I qualify in terms of geneology; however, I am not certain about the status of my great-grandfather's naturalization. The ...