Reply to Tornetta,
Mariano Finocchiaro was my great uncle. I've sent you a private message with more details.
Ron Boemi

Thank you very much Pippo.

I've been trying to translate my great-grandmother's (Rosaria) handwritten note on the back of a 1920 photograph of her son (Nunzio), but I can't make out many of the letters to input into google-translate. Nunzio was in his Italian police uniform. I think the note is to her daughter who was in the ...

Thank you again Pippo. I really appreciate your insights.

Thank you so much Pippo! I did not know my grandfather ever owned a house in Linguaglossa. Perhaps it was his father's house that he inherited and perhaps it was the house he grew up in. I'm glad I now have one more clue that may help find more information about his parents and other relatives.

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I'm trying to learn more about my grandfather, Carmelo Boemi, who was born in 1890 and emigrated in 1913 from Linguaglossa to Rochester NY. I know his father's name was Antonio Boemi, his mother was Concetta Raineri and although he had many siblings, all died at young ages except one older sister ...